Polymer Chemistry: the future's bright
So now we have published the first two volumes of Polymer Chemistry and already the journal has made its mark on the community. For such a young journal to already be so widely read and well-thought of is a tremendous credit to everyone involved in Polymer Chemistry. And we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who contribute.Firstly, our authors who send us their best work. We are delighted with the quality and number of submissions we have received. Polymer Chemistry is quickly establishing itself as a top quality journal which offers fast publication times and a good experience for authors. All manuscripts are handled by either Dave or one of our Associate Editors, Eva Harth (Vanderbilt University) or Yuliang Yang (Fudan University).
Our enthusiastic Editorial and Advisory Board members are a pleasure to work with and their passion for the journal is plain to see. The Fall ACS in Denver was a great time to catch up with our Board members and congratulations to Rachel O'Reilly, Brent Sumerlin, Chris Barner-Kowollik and Tom Davis for winning their very own Polymer Chemistry mugs for their contributions to the journal (Fig. 1)! Finally, thanks to the team in our Cambridge Editorial office (Fig. 2) who look after papers once they have been accepted, carrying out the editing, proofing and organising the publication of issues.
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| Fig. 1 Rachel, Brent and Tom delighted with their prizes. | ||
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| Fig. 2 The Polymer Chemistry team (left column, top to bottom: Peter Moorby, Tegan Thomas, Liz Davies, Jon Watson, middle column: Ross McLaren, Serin Dabb, Sylvia Pegg, right column: Paul Cooper, Russell Johnson, Kate Godhino, Jess Cocker). | ||
This is also a good opportunity to look over some of the highlights of the past 12 months and to tell you about some of the things coming up next year to look out for. In 2011, we published the first two themed issues in Polymer Chemistry (Fig. 3). Issue 2 was filled with papers from emerging investigators in the early stages of their careers. Guest edited by Rachel O'Reilly and Andrew Dove (both at Warwick University), this issue showcased some fantastic work by tomorrow's leaders of the field. Our second themed issue was on polymer bioconjugates, with guest editors Jan van Hest (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Brent Sumerlin (Southern Methodist University). We were delighted with the interest this themed issue received and hope you enjoyed reading the articles!
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| Fig. 3 Polymer Chemistry's first two themed issues. | ||
2011 also saw Polymer Chemistry join the world of social networking. As well as being a top quality journal, Polymer Chemistry has quickly become a part of the community and we take pleasure in being a forum for the dissemination of information and news of interest to all polymer chemists. Our blog regularly features posts on articles and conferences. Look out for our popular Author of the Week interviews by our web writers Remzi Becer (Warwick University) and Julien Nicolas (University Paris-Sud) posted every Friday and, coming soon in 2012, a new regular item of Paper of the Week! For those of you who have published in Polymer Chemistry, look out for a message from our web writers for your chance to be featured in one of these posts. You can also keep up-to-date by following us on Twitter @PolymChem or finding us on Facebook.
2012 will be an exciting year for Polymer Chemistry. We have more fantastic themed issues in the pipeline, such as one entitled New Methods of Polymer Synthesis with guest editors Christopher Barner-Kowollik (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Jean-François Lutz (Institut Charles Sadron, France) and Sébastien Perrier (University of Sydney, Australia). The journal will also receive its first impact factor with the release of the 2011 Journal Citation Report in June 2012. We will be celebrating this milestone at Warwick 2012 and hope to see many of you there. We will also be attending a number of other conferences throughout the year so look out for us and please do come and say hi. If you have any comments or ideas for Polymer Chemistry we would be delighted to hear from you at any time; simply email us at polymers-rsc@rsc.org.
With best wishes for the holiday season and a fantastic 2012!
Dave Haddleton (Editor-in-Chief) and Liz Davies (Managing Editor)
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RSC Conferences and Events 2012
The RSC organises a broad range of conferences and events to promote the advancement of the chemical sciences. Please visit the website for the most up to date listing: www.rsc.org/eventsThe major scientific meetings planned for 2012 include:
Challenges in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (ISACS7)
12–15 June 2012, Edinburgh, UK
Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS8)
19–22 July 2012, Toronto, Canada
Challenges in Nanoscience (ISACS9)
31 August–3 September 2012, Xiamen, China
21 st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21)
9–13 September 2012, Durham, UK
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