Looking back at 2022

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Abstract

The Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board and Editorial Office look back at 2022 and give an overview of the exciting events, activities and news for the journal from the last year.

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Now that 2022 is coming to an end, we look back at some of the exciting events, activities and news from Nanoscale Horizons. We are continually thankful for the nano community’s engagement, which has enabled the journal to continue to support our growing community. We look forward to another great year for the journal in 2023.

Earlier this year, Professor Michael Sailor (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Professor Sarah Tolbert (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) (Fig. 1) completed their final terms on the journal’s Editorial Board and joined our Advisory Board. We would like to thank them both for their excellent service to the journal and community over many years and look forward to continuing to work with them in their new role.

Fig. 1 Michael Sailor and Sarah Tolbert.

We were delighted to announce Sara E. Skrabalak and her team, Jin-Hong Park and his team, and Katsuhiko Ariga as the winners of our 2021 Outstanding Paper Awards earlier this year. These annual awards recognize some of the outstanding work published in the journal, as well as all the authors behind these exceptional articles.

We recognized the significant contributions that our reviewers have made to the journal and highlighted the 2021 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons. We once again thank all of Nanoscale Horizons’ reviewers and acknowledge their invaluable support in providing high quality, timely and helpful reports on submissions to the journal, thereby ensuring that we continue to publish high quality articles.

In 2022 we launched a new series in Nanoscale Horizons to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career (i.e., less than ten years post PhD) researchers in the journal. The series will regularly highlight the corresponding author of a recently published Communication article through an interview-style Editorial. Our first Emerging Investigator in the series, Dr Huiyuan Zhu (University of Virginia, USA) spoke to us about her research, career advice and hobbies in our Emerging Investigator interview. If you are eligible and interested in submitting a paper for potential inclusion in the series, please do contact the Editorial Office (nanoscalehorizons-rsc@rsc.org) for details.

This year we were pleased to see that the Nanoscale Horizons impact factor increased to 11.684 in the Journal Citation Reports, with over 19.5k monthly downloads and 50% open access content. These are just a few of the many metrics that can be used to measure the journal’s reach, quality and impact.

The Community Boards that support Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last two years.

This year we featured research on antimicrobial materials and surfaces in a collection guest edited by Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Community Board members Ignacio Insua (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Ignacio Martín-Fabiani (Loughborough University, UK) (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2 Ignacio Insua and Ignacio Martín-Fabiani.

We would also like to take this opportunity to share some of the personal achievements, successes and highlights from our Editorial Board over the last year.

First, please join us in congratulating Professor Dirk M. Guldi, who received the 2022 Linstead Career Award in Phthalocyanine Chemistry as part of the 12th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, given to highly distinguished scientists for the quality and trajectory of their research throughout their academic career.

We are delighted to share that both Professor Zhiyong Tang and Professor Jinlan Wang were included in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list. The Highly Cited Researchers™ is an annual program which recognizes those who have published several highly cited papers over the last ten years, and thereby have a wide and significant influence on their respective field.

Professor Yves Dufrêne was ranked #8451 from a pool of over 10 million scientists in a study of the top researchers among all scientific disciplines.

Finally, we would like to congratulate Professor Wenlong Cheng for winning the NHMRC Lectureship Fellow grant, allowing him to work on remote biodiagnostics.

We have high hopes that 2023 will bring many successes for science and Nanoscale Horizons. We are looking forward to seeing the exciting research that we will be able to feature in the journal and to announcing our next Emerging Investigators and Outstanding Paper Awards. I think many of us will share Prof. Cheng’s sentiment that it has been a pleasure to get back to attending international conferences in person again. It has certainly been lovely to meet some of our community at the conferences we have attended on behalf of Nanoscale Horizons, and we look forward to seeing many more of you in 2023.

Professor Dr Katharina Landfester, Editorial Board Chair

Professor Wenlong Cheng, Scientific Editor

Professor Yves Dufrêne, Scientific Editor

Professor Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Scientific Editor

Professor Dr Dirk Guldi, Scientific Editor

Professor Zhiyong Tang, Scientific Editor

Professor Jinlan Wang, Scientific Editor

Professor Miqin Zhang, Editorial Board Member

Dr Heather Montgomery, Managing Editor

Mr Edward Gardner, Development Editor

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