Environmental Science: Nano – news, progress and impact

To all of our authors, reviewers and readers, I want to wish everyone a happy and productive new year. I am delighted to start this year by introducing the new Associate Editor Wei-Guo Song. Dr Song is currently at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Institute of Chemistry. He focuses on the synthesis, characterization and applications of engineered nanomaterials in energy and environmental catalysis. Dr Song's expertise very nicely complements our three other Associate Editors: Gregory Lowry, Iseult Lynch and Kristin Schirmer. These four distinguished scientists coordinate all of the peer review of manuscripts submitted to the journal and are an important component of the success of the journal. During 2016 there were some changes to the team in the Editorial Office. Dr Sam Keltie has joined the team as the journal's Executive Editor and works closely with me and the Editorial Board to develop the journal. We wished the journal's previous Executive Editor, Sarah Ruthven, well on her new endeavors. Sam along with the journal's Deputy Editor, Emma Eley, will be attending a number of conferences in 2017 and look forward to meeting many authors, readers and reviewers to discuss the landscape of sustainable nanotechnology and how the journal can serve them.

To further engage the community, we have expanded our editorial advisory board. In particular, we welcome Melanie Auffan (CEREGE, France), Philip Demokritou (Harvard University, USA), Juliane Filser (Bremen University, Germany), John Fortner (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Robert Hurt (Brown University, USA), Saber Hussain (Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, USA), Ralf Kaegi (Eawag, Switzerland), Anne Kahru (Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, Estonia), Sijin Liu (RCEES, Beijing, China), Willie Peijnenburg (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Debora Rodrigues (University of Houston, USA), Tara Sabo-Attwood (University of Florida, USA), Navid Saleh (The University of Texas at Austin, USA), Gabriele Schaumann (Landau University, Germany), Vera Slaveykova (Université de Genève, Switzerland), Nathalie Tufenkji (McGill University, Canada), Sharon Walker (University of California, Riverside, USA), and Wendel Wohlleben (BASF, Germany). We are pleased that these internationally recognized scholars have agreed to work with the editors and editorial board in supporting the journal and shaping its scientific content. For a full list of the advisory board please see the Profile article that follows in this issue (DOI: 10.1039/c6en90031c) or our website.

Environmental Science: Nano continues to partner with the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) to recognize the accomplishments of investigators within their first ten years. The SNO Emerging Investigator award gives recognition to emerging scientists and engineers working in the area of Sustainable Nanotechnology. This year's SNO Emerging Investigator honor went to Dr Elijah Petersen, a Research Scientist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Dr Petersen's research focuses on the biological interactions of nanomaterials in the environment and the characterization of nanomaterials in complex environmental matrices.

I am also pleased to announce that due to our recent successes in terms of journal quality (e.g. immediacy index of 1.119 and first partial impact factor of 5.896) and quantity (e.g. number of submissions) we are now expanding the number of journal issues each year to 12.

On behalf of the Editors and Editorial Board, I am excited to share the news, progress and impact of Environmental Science: Nano and would like to thank authors, reviewers and readers of the journal for your support and contributions to the success of the journal. I wish you all a great 2017.

 

Vicki H. Grassian

Distinguished Professor, University of California San Diego

Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Science: Nano

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