Metallomics—making an impact!

Welcome to issue 1, 2012 of Metallomics, and we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy New Year from all the journal team.

When Metallomics was launched at the beginning of 2009, our primary aim for the journal was to become the home for the new emerging metallomics community, and to strengthen the progress of research in this area. We felt that there was an increasing need to provide a forum for the broad family of scientists working in the fields of biochemistry, biological inorganic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, nutrition, microbiology and analytical science (to name a few) to be able to come together as a community, to discuss and report developments in the field of biometal science.

Under the leadership of Joe Caruso, the members of the Editorial Board and journal team, we have achieved a fantastic start. We are aware that there is still plenty of work to be done as our goal cannot happen overnight, however at the beginning of our fourth year of publication of Metallomics, we felt that it was appropriate to look back and see some of our highlights so far.

The broad range of topics that we have published in the journal so far demonstrates the increasing reach of the journal, and the involvement and contribution from so many different communities is quite an achievement. A brief look at the top ten most-cited articles gives a taste of this, from the development of the synthesis, design and biological action of metal-based anticancer and anti-tumour drugs, to bioimaging of metalloproteins and metals in tissue, metalloproteomics and the action of metal binding, to speciation of trace elements and the analytical methodologies used to probe these different areas.

Table 1 The most highly cited articles published in Metallomics to date

Title	Authors	DOI
Recent developments in ruthenium anticancer drugs	Aviva Levina, Anannya Mitra, Peter Lay	10.1039/b904071d
Inhibition of transcription by platinum antitumor compounds	Ryan C. Todd, Stephen J. Lippard	10.1039/b907567d
Metal imaging in non-denaturating 2D electrophoresis gels by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) for the detection of metalloproteins	J. Susanne Becker, Ryszard Lobinski, J. Sabine Becker	10.1039/b822974k
Bioimaging of metals in brain tissue by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and metallomics	J. Sabine Becker, Andreas Matusch, Christoph Palm, Dagmar Salber, Kathryn Morton, J. Susanne Becker	10.1039/b916722f
Epigenetics in metal carcinogenesis: nickel, arsenic, chromium and cadmium	Adriana Arita and Max Costa	10.1039/b903049b
Identification and characterization of metallodrug binding proteins by (metallo)proteomics	Xuesong Chun, Cheuk-Nam Tsang, Hongzhe Sun	10.1039/b813121j
Quantitative elemental bio-imaging of Mn, Fe, Cu and Zn in 6-hydroxydopamine induced Parkinsonism mouse models	Dominic Hare, Brain Reedy, Rudolf Grimm, Simon Wilkins, Irene Volitakis, Jessica L. George, Robert A. Cherny, Ashley I. Bush, David I. Finkelstein, Philip Doble	10.1039/b816188g
Simultaneous iron, zinc, sulfur and phosphorus speciation analysis of barley grain tissues using SEC-ICP-MS and IP-ICP-MS	Daniel P. Persson, Thomas H. Hansen, Kristian H. Laursen, Jan K. Schjoerring, Soren Husted	10.1039/b905688b
Independent metal-binding features of recombinant metallothioneins convergently draw a step gradation between Zn- and Cu-thioneins	Roger Bofill, Merce Capdevila, Silvia Atrian	10.1039/b904953c
Analytical methodologies for metallomics studies of antitumor Pt-containing drugs	Diego Esteban-Fernandez, Estefania Moreno-Gordaliza, Benito Canas, Maria Antonia Palacios, Maria Milagros Gomez-Gomez	10.1039/b911438f

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Importantly, research in Metallomics can also be easily found by the community. The journal is now indexed in MEDLINE, meaning our articles are highlighted to thousands of biomedical researchers and health professionals.

Building on the great successes of the 2009 meeting in Cincinnati, the 3rd meeting of the International Symposium on Metallomics was held this year in Münster, Germany. More than 320 delegates took part, from nearly 40 countries, underlining the growing international interest in this emerging research area. Issue 12 of Metallomics in 2011 contained a selection of articles reporting work that was presented at this conference and the journal will continue to be a strong supporter of this series of meetings. With the venues for both the fourth and fifth conferences already confirmed as Oviedo, Spain in 2013 and Beijing, China in 2015, this series certainly looks set to grow and develop over the next four years. We look forward to seeing the continued integration between the different communities working in the area of metals in biology.

Metallomics has also featured several topic areas as themed issues throughout 2011, including Metals in Neurodegenerative Diseases, which was guest edited by David Brown from the University of Bath, and Cytochromes, guest edited by Advisory Board member Norbert Jakubowski, BAM, Berlin and Peter Roos from the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany. Recently our issue on Metal Toxicity, guest edited by Chris Rensing and Gregor Grass, featured 17 articles on this theme, including the toxicity of different metals in bacteria and eukaryotes, metal recognition and transport, toxicity of metal nanoparticles and cell biology and metal toxicity.

The journal also featured a special issue “Metallomics in Japan”, which highlighed the quality and depth of the subject in Japan. This issue was introduced by Hiroko Haraguchi, a founding Metallomics Editorial Board member and someone who was instrumental in the use of the term ‘metallomics’ and the development of the subject in its early days.

In the summer of 2011, Metallomics' first impact factor was published in the 2010 Journal Citation Report^® as 3.59. This fantastic news underlines that the journal will continue to publish work which provides truly significant and novel insights into the role of metals in biological systems.

Fig. 1 Impact Factors of selected journals from 2010 Journal Citation Report^®, published in June 2011.

Watch for the selection of themed issues that we have planned for 2012, including an issue on emerging topics and researchers in the area of metallomics, guest edited by Editorial Board member Rachel Austin, and the topic of Metals and Genetics, which will include articles from the recently held 2011 International Conference on Metals and Genetics, in Kobe, Japan.

We are happy to say that in 2012 we will be offering Metallomics authors our Accepted Manuscript service, meaning that your research will be available online, in citable form, even more rapidly. An Accepted Manuscript is an unedited and unformatted version of an article that is published shortly after acceptance. It is available as a downloadable pdf file. It is then replaced by the fully edited and formatted Advance Article. Find out more about this service on the dedicated page on our website, www.rsc.org/acceptedmanuscripts.

We also invite you to follow the latest developments on the Metallomics blog, find out about our most-read and Hot Articles, themed issue news, conference updates and we welcome any comments from you as authors and readers on any of the above topics. Watch out also for more information about our cover articles, which are free to access for six weeks from issue publication! http://blogs.rsc.org/mt

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Finally, we would like to thank all members of our Editorial and Advisory Boards, and of course our authors, referees, and readers for your continued support. We very much hope you will continue to help us build on our recent achievements. Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, so please do contact the Editorial office at any time.

We hope that you enjoy reading Metallomics this coming year, and look forward to working with you throughout 2012!

Joe Caruso

Chair, Metallomics Editorial Board

May Copsey

Editor, Metallomics

Vibhuti Patel

Deputy Editor, Metallomics

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