Reaching new heights and welcoming new faces!
Welcome to issue 1, 2012 of JAAS, and may we take this opportunity to wish you as author or reader a very happy New Year from all the journal team. Furthermore, we would like to thank all authors and reviewers for their excellent and very valuable contributions to our journal.Last year was the international year of chemistry and a lot of activities took place around the globe. I am very confident that this dedicated year to chemistry generated some new awareness of the importance of chemistry for our daily life, which includes significant contributions from methods published in JAAS. The major challenges in the future require solutions to problems related to energy, materials, climate, sustainability and it is obvious that analytical chemistry and atomic spectroscopy in particular will play an important role in meeting these challenges.
2011 has been a very successful year for JAAS. Looking back over the year is always enjoyable, and this year we can happily say that JAAS has extended its reach even further, to include new communities and welcomed new faces.
The year got off to a great start with the publication of our themed issue on Speciation, guest edited by Joanna Szpunar and Michael Sperling.1 This featured articles from university laboratories and research institutes across Europe and Asia, providing a wide range of studies showing that speciation continues to be an attractive research area facing a number of challenges, which are being successfully addressed.
This was followed by a themed issue highlighting the latest work in Glow Discharge Spectroscopy. An Editorial by Philippe Guillot, Cornel Venzago and Gerardo Gamez provided an overview of the International Glow Discharge Spectroscopy Symposium 2010,2 and this issue in JAAS featured some of the exciting work from this conference.
A less well-established research area in JAAS was featured in our next themed issue on Synchrotron Radiation in Art and Archaeometry. Guest editor Koen Janssens introduced this theme and this issue highlighted the potential of the analytical techniques featured in JAAS for this area of work and community.3
Finally we published two collections of articles from the most recent Winter Conferences, hailing from two different continents. Issue 6 featured research from the fantastic 2010 Asia Pacific Winter Conference, held in Chengdu, China at the end of 2010. Issue 8 highlighted work presented at the very well organized 14th European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, which took place in Zaragoza, Spain. Juan Castillo and Martín Resano gave us an overview of the meeting.4
The journal achieved an Impact Factor of 4.372 this year, which is our highest value for many years! The method of quanitification does have its critics, however, the IF clearly reflects that JAAS continues to be the leading journal publishing primary research in spectroscopy, and also takes us to fifth in the analytical chemistry category! (Journal Citation Report Science Edition 2010).
We are very pleased to welcome some new faces to the Editorial Board. Martín Resano from University of Zaragoza, Spain, will bring significant expertise to the Board in the field of AAS, and we are also delighted to welcome Takafumi Hirata from Kyoto University, Japan, to the Editorial Board, whose guidance in the areas of geochemistry and metallomics will be very welcome. We also say goodbye to Naoki Furuta at the end of 2011, and sincerely thank him for all his input and support for the journal as an Editorial Board member. We are pleased to say that he will be joining the Advisory Board.
Editorial Board members Martín Resano and Takafumi Hirata.
Norbert Jakubowski, who has been the Reviews Editor for JAAS for the past few years, will be changing his role to become our Associate Editor for Europe. We are very pleased to say that our Editorial Board member, Joanna Szpunar, will take his place as Reviews Editor.
2012 will also be the fourth and final year for me as Chair of the Editorial Board of JAAS. Therefore, I would like to thank all the Editors in the last four years for many constructive and fruitful discussions. In addition I would also like to mention that the success of JAAS is based on an active and engaged team, and I am very happy that I was able to be a part of this for the last four years.
On behalf of the Board I am delighted to say that Frank Vanhaecke will be taking over as the new Chair from August 2012, so do watch out for more news on this topic later in the year!
We also welcome new Advisory Board members Steven Ray, Indiana University, USA, Kay Niemax, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany, Pawel Pohl, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, and Wei Hang, Xiamen University, China, to the journal, and warmly thank all our existing Editorial and Advisory Board members for their continued support this year.
We are proudly continuing our tradition of supporting the Winter Conferences in 2012. As ever, we will be publishing a themed issue from the US Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, to be held in Tucson, Arizona. We look forward to seeing you there! In addition to the Winter Conference in the USA, we will also be inviting work that is presented at the Asia-Pacific Winter Conference in Jeju, South Korea in August, for a themed issue dedicated to the research from authors participating in this conference.
JAAS News, our journal blog for news and views from the atomic spectrometry community, continues to feature the latest developments from the journal. We welcome any suggestions for topics that you would like to see covered, and any comments that you have on news items or articles published in the journal. Every year we try to surprise you, and I hope we will also be able to do this in 2012.
Finally, we hope that you will enjoy reading the latest achievements in research in JAAS in 2012, and we look forward to working with you this coming year.
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References
- Michael Sperling and Joanna Szpunar, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 22 RSC.
- Philippe Guillot, Cornel Venzago and Gerardo Gamez, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 647 RSC.
- Koen Janssens, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 883 RSC.
- Juan R. Castillo and Martín Resano, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1559 RSC.
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