A Year of Deep Change and Transformation

Abstract

This past year was transformative for Wiley but also a year of profound change for the Advanced family of journals with the departure of Professor Peter S. Gregory, long-standing Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials. It is appropriate to take this opportunity to reflect on Peter's deep contribution to Wiley-VCH: from a single journal, itself a spin-off of Angewandte Chemie, the Advanced family has grown into 16 branded journals and over 50 journals in the Materials Science and Physics program of Wiley. The program now covers all areas of Materials Science and extends to adjacent or burgeoning fields from Physics to Quantum Computing and Machine Learning. The latest addition to this family, Advanced Intelligent Systems, covers a field that did not even exist when Peter first took the helm of Advanced Materials. I join my colleagues here at Wiley-VCH in thanking Peter for all he has taught us over the years and congratulate him for the amazing legacy he leaves in our care. One overarching idea Peter almost always stressed is that scientific publishing is ultimately a people business and that a publisher can only be successful when it focuses its service on the researcher. The changes we commited to this past year are in service to this philosophy. Many in our community have long demanded a transition from a subscriptions-based model to the Open Access model of scientific publishing but it was never clear how to sustainably achieve such a transition. Wiley thinks it has found an answer and has committed to a transformative agreement with the projekt-DEAL consortium in Germany. This arrangement has given affiliated researchers access to the entire Wiley collection since January 2019. Open Access publishing fees are covered by MPDL-Services GmbH, either fully for hybrid journals or for at a deeply discounted rate for fully Open Access journals. This agreement has resulted in a vast expansion of access to the Wiley collection while simultaneously keeping costs under control. Comparable agreements are already in place in Hungary and the Netherlands, and more countries have expressed interest in similar “Publish and Read” arrangements. More is sure to come in the next few years. One other long-standing request of our communities is the possibility to earn recognition for one's review work. We're happy to have the ability to recognise and credit our reviewer through the ORCID Review Credit Deposit, a service managed through the ORCID architecture. To receive credit for reviews you will need an ORCID iD and will need to actively opt-in to this service when you submit your report. Your identity as a reviewer will be protected and no specific manuscripts or author details will be shown in your ORCID profile, nor will your information be shared with the manuscripts authors. Amidst all these changes we, the editorial team of Advanced Electronic Materials, have remained committed to our mission to cover the latest, most important research topics in our fields and the community has responded by flocking to the journal. Submissions have increased by 30%, which unfortunately implies that we have had to become more selective and turn away more authors than we would like. Thankfully, our transfer program to sister titles continues to grow steadily with new titles launched every year and allows us to offer our authors ever more venues to publish with us. Some of the outstanding research papers published recently may be found and freely accessed at the end of this article. Finally, I would like to congratulate the editorial team for another successful year and thank them for their unwavering efforts. And to quote Stephen Chobsky; “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody”. Thank you all for being consumate professionals and for making our journal the success that it is. Hakim Meskine Editor-in-Chief Mario Lanza and co-authors Recommended Methods to Study Resistive Switching Devices [Progress Report] Zexin Feng, Han Yan, Zhiqi Liu Electric-Field Control of Magnetic Order: From FeRh to Topological Antiferromagnetic Spintronics [Review] Raphael Pfattner, Amir M. Foudeh, Shucheng Chen, Weijun Niu, James R. Matthews, Mingqian He, Zhenan Bao Dual-Gate Organic Field-Effect Transistor for pH Sensors with Tunable Sensitivity [Full Paper] Meng Liao, Lei Ye, Ye Zhang, Taiqiang Chen, Huisheng Peng The Recent Advance in Fiber-Shaped Energy Storage Devices [Review] Tsao, J. Y., Chowdhury, S., Hollis, M. A. et al. Ultrawide-Bandgap Semiconductors: Research Opportunities and Challenges [Review] Shu Gong, Wenlong Cheng One-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Soft Electronics [Review] Fei Hui, Enric Grustan-Gutierrez, Shibing Long, Qi Liu, Anna K. Ott, Andrea C. Ferrari, Mario Lanza Graphene and Related Materials for Resistive Random Access Memories [Review] Xin Chen, Xu Han and Fun-Don Cheng PVDF-Based Ferroelectric Polymers in Modern Flexible Electronics [Review] Cedric Couly, Mohamed Alhabeb, Katherine L. Van Aken, Narendra Kurra, Luisa Gomes, Adriana M. Navarro-Suárez, Babak Anasori, Husam N. Alshareef, Yury Gogotsi Asymmetric Flexible MXene-Reduced Graphene Oxide Micro-Supercapacitor [Full Paper]