Celebrating the First Impact Factor of Advanced Science

Abstract

The popularity of Advanced Science has been increasing steadily in the 1.5 years since its launch. We have published many excellent articles and have seen readership broaden consistently each month. The number of full text downloads of published articles has increased rapidly over the course of the last 18 months and citations of published articles are also on the rise. Advanced Science was accepted for coverage in Web of Science at the beginning of 2016 and, based on the first issue published in December 2014, we just received our first impact factor of 6.0. This early success has been made possible in part by the enthusiastic support of our editorial advisory board and many top authors. I recently met one of our authors, Cyrille Boyer, whose work is featured on the front cover of this issue at a conference and he stated: “I believe Advanced Science is an excellent multidisciplinary journal. I read it every week and I always find new and exciting research. I especially like that it covers research in different fields: materials science, energy, drug delivery, chemistry, and more, written by high profile authors and I'm sure the journal will have a very high first impact factor. I absolutely believe this journal has a great future.” In this issue, we are happy to present a collection of review articles that cover topics of highest interest ranging from drug delivery systems to perovskite solar cells and engineering cooling roofs. Like all articles published in Advanced Science, these not to be missed articles are available as open access and can be read without a subscription. The outstanding contributions featured here cover a wide range of topics. David Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China) review advances in perovskite solar cells. The understanding of surface adhesion in nature is in the focus of a review article by Shutao Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China). Yuanhua Sang and Hong Liu (Shandong University, Jinan, China) summarize the current state of 1D ferroelectric nanostructures and their prospects for future applications. A more application-oriented topic is presented by Ming Gu (Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn, Australia) who looks into the topic of radiative cooling. Tierui Zhang (Northwest University, Xi'an, China) presents a comprehensive and timely review on Zn2+-containing catalysts for efficient energy conversion. Jie-Peng Zhang (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China) summarizes recent progresses in the use of photoluminescent metal-organic frameworks for gas sensing. Light-activated drug delivery systems using lanthanide-doped up-conversion nanoparticles are presented to our readers by Cyrille Boyer and May Lim (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). In a much more physics-oriented review Tie-Jun Zhu (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China) and Jian He (Clemson University, USA) report on defect engineering in thermoelectric materials. The article by Jian-Xin Tang (Soochow University, Suzhou, China) comprehensively reviews the most recent progress of the light manipulation in organic photovoltaics. Last but not least, Wei Feng (Tianjin University, China) reviews the synthesis, structures, and applications of two-dimensional fluorinated graphene. We would like to thank all invited authors for their inspiring manuscripts, their trust in the journal and their contribution to the future success of Advanced Science. I hope that you will enjoy this collection of articles. If you are interested in contributing an open access article of your own that anyone can freely access do not hesitate to contact us. We are happy to discuss any potential topic with you. On behalf of the editorial team,