The catalysis community's journal

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Now in its second year, Catalysis Science & Technology is growing its reach across the catalysis community. Our dynamic Editorial Board are dedicated towards attracting the highest quality research and with submissions on the rise, it is clear to see that Catalysis Science & Technology is increasing in popularity with authors.

With the start of a brand new year, we are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Co-Editor-in-Chief, Professor Noritaka Mizuno. Professor Mizuno was previously Associate Editor for Catalysis Science & Technology and now joins Professor Piet van Leeuwen as Co-Editor-in-Chief from 1st January. Noritaka Mizuno is based at the University of Tokyo where his research is focused on heterogeneous catalysis using polyoxometalates.

Plate1 Editors-in-Chief, Noritaka Mizuno and Piet van Leeuwen

This is not the only change to Catalysis Science & Technology family. We are also pleased to welcome Professor Tsunehiro Tanaka from Kyoto University who joins the Editorial Board as Associate Editor. Professor Tanaka is accepting submissions to his Editorial Office, from 1st January 2013, which can be selected at submission through the online site. As a reminder, authors can choose to submit to any of our Associate Editor offices who manage the peer-review for all submissions (Table 1).

Table 1 Catalysis Science & Technology’s Associate Editors and their Editorial Offices

Paul Chirik	Paul Kamer	Javier Pérez-Ramírez	Tsunehiro Tanaka
Princeton University, USA	University of St. Andrews, UK	ETH Zürich, Switerland	Kyoto University, Japan

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Catalysis Science & Technology publishes work from across the whole catalysis community, whether it be heterogeneous or homogeneous catalysis, bio-, nano-, or photo-catalysis, from industry or academia. Fig. 1 shows the breadth of topics published in the journal that are authored by researchers from across the world. Our top downloaded Perspectives and Minireviews give a taster of our content, representing research from all catalysis communities (Table 2).

Fig. 1 Breakdown of different subject areas published in Catalysis Science & Technology in 2012 (left) and breakdown of 2012 Catalysis Science & Technology authorship by country (right).

Table 2 2012 Top downloaded Catalysis Science & Technology Perspectives and Minireviews

Article title and authors	DOI
Graphene-based materials for catalysis Bruno F. Machado and Philippe Serp	10.1039/c1cy00361e
Conversion of lignocellulose into renewable chemicals by heterogeneous catalysis Hirokazu Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Ohta and Atsushi Fukuoka	10.1039/c2cy00500j
Asymmetric catalysis using iron complexes –‘Ruthenium Lite’? Muftah Darwish and Martin Wills	10.1039/c1cy00390a
Recent progress in the electrochemical conversion and utilization of CO2 Neil S. Spinner, Jose A. Vega and William E. Mustain	10.1039/c1cy00314c
A review of controllable synthesis and enhancement of performances of bismuth tungstate visible-light-driven photocatalysts Liwu Zhang and Yongfa Zhu	10.1039/c2cy00411a
Rational design of heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel synthesis Karen Wilson and Adam F. Lee	10.1039/c2cy20038d
Role of mixed metal oxides in catalysis science—versatile applications in organic synthesis Manoj B. Gawande, Rajesh K. Pandey and Radha V. Jayaram	10.1039/c2cy00490a
Recent advances in organocatalytic asymmetric Michael reactions Yong Zhang and Wei Wang	10.1039/c1cy00334h
Lanthanide modified semiconductor photocatalysts Amanda S. Weber, Anne M. Grady and Ranjit T. Koodali	10.1039/c2cy00552b
Synthesis of N-heterocyclic compounds over zeolite molecular sieve catalysts: an approach towards green chemistry V. V. Krishna Mohan Kandepi and Nama Narender	10.1039/c2cy00162d

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Last year we were out and about, meeting researchers and sponsoring conferences, lectures, and poster prizes. We attended a number of meetings including the Spring ACS meeting in San Diego, the 15th International Congress on Catalysis in Munich, and the 18th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis in Toulouse, where we also hosted the Catalysis Science & Technology Editorial Board meeting. We are hoping to meet more of the community throughout 2013 so keep an eye out for us at EuropaCat in Lyon and the North American Catalysis Society meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. Let us take this opportunity to congratulate last year's Catalysis Science & Technology poster prize winners – see Table 3 for details.

Table 3 Poster prizes sponsored by Catalysis Science & Technology in 2012

Conference	Winners
London Catalysis Winter Seminar, UK	Kim Fung Li
FineCat – Symposium on catalysis for fine chemicals, Italy	Ermelinda Falletta
Frontiers of Organometallic Chemistry, Russia	G. A. Silantyev
Frontiers of Organometallic Chemistry, Russia	W. Harnying
Frontiers of Organometallic Chemistry, Russia	N. A. Bumagin
RSC Carbohydrate COST meeting 2012, UK	Hilde van Hattum
International Symposium on Catalysis for Clean Energy and Sustainable Chemistry, Spain
International Symposium on Catalysis and Speciality Chemicals, Algeria
Swiss Chemical Society – 2012 Fall Meeting, Switzerland
Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, Russia

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Catalysis Science & Technology's Editorial staff work hard behind the scenes to deliver a top quality journal, in hand with excellent customer service to authors, referees and readers alike. The Editorial team: Managing Editor, Jamie Humphrey, Deputy Editor, Fiona McKenzie, Senior Publishing Editor, Andrew Shore, and Development Editor, Matthew Cude are always eager to hear your feedback. Please contact the Editorial Office for your suggestions, themed issue ideas and review article proposals – email mailto:catalysis-rsc@rsc.org.

We hope that 2013 sees Catalysis Science & Technology continue to grow, quickly becoming the journal for the catalysis community.

With best wishes for the New Year from the Catalysis Science & Technology team.

Plate2 Managing Editor, Jamie Humphrey; Deputy Editor, Fiona McKenzie; Development Editor, Matthew Cude, Catalysis Science & Technology

Plate3 From right to left (back row): Senior Publishing Editor, Andrew Shore, Publishing Editors, Helen Lunn, Jennifer Newton, Rachel Cooper, Michael Parkin. Front row: Publishing Editors, Amy Middleton-Gear, Elizabeth Woodhouse, Debora Giovanelli, Kirsty Muirhead

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