ChemPhysChem: Ongoing Growth

Abstract

Last year was marked by an outstanding growth of ChemPhysChem: the journal published about 2679 pages—a stunning 38 % more than in 2004 (see Figure 1). Similarly the number of published articles has gone up by 35 % (from 245 to 331). While the number of pages published per issue has more than doubled within the last three years, quality remained at our highest standards, as supported by ChemPhysChem's latest ISI Impact Factor of 3.596 and a rejection rate of 55 %. Page and submission development of ChemPhysChem over the years. Growth was also noticed in the submission rate. In 2005, ChemPhysChem received ca. 650 manuscripts, ca. 10 % more than in 2004. Scientists from more than 40 countries submitted to ChemPhysChem, with particularly large numbers from Europe (50%) and Asia (30%). Highlights of 2005 were three special issues: The May issue, co-organised by Professor P. Vöhringer and Dr. G. Haran, highlighted the inter-related fields of single-molecule spectroscopy and optical spectroscopy of biomolecular dynamics. This special issue evidently attracted enormous attention (see top five articles in Table 1). Title Corresponding author Page (issue) Single-Molecule Quantum-Dot Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer T. Ha 956 (5) Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Protein Folding B. Schuler 1206 (7) Statistical Evaluation of Single Nano-Object Fluorescence M. Orrit 770 (5) Three-Color Single-Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer A. A. Deniz 74 (1) Proteins in Action Monitored by Time- Resolved FTIR Spectroscopy K. Gerwert 881 (5) With the Parrinello Festschrift (Figure 2), honouring our Editorial Advisory Board member Professor M. Parrinello on the occasion of his 60th birthday, ChemPhysChem published the fattiest issue ever. The Festschrift, organised by Dr. W. Andreoni, Professor D. Marx and Professor M. Sprik, included about 50 excellent contributions on modern computational chemistry and was extremely well received. Cover picture of the Parrinello Festschrift. The third special issue came out last November and was dedicated to Professor F. C. De Schryver, who has served as Co-chairman of ChemPhysChem's Editorial Advisory Board since its inception. This special issue, organised by Professor M. van der Auweraer on the occasion of Professor F. C. De Schryver's 65th birthday, covered such hot topics as photochemistry, single-molecule spectroscopy, femtochemistry and scanning probe microscopy (Figure 3). Cover picture of the special issue dedicated to Frans De Schryver. The five most downloaded ChemPhysChem articles, published in 2005 on Wiley InterScience, show further that single-molecule spectroscopy attracts a lot of attention these days and has obviously found a good home in ChemPhysChem (see Table 1). The Article on single-molecule quantum-dot fluorescence by T. Ha et al., featured on the cover of issue 5 (Figure 4), heads the list, followed by the Review articles on single-molecule spectroscopy of protein folding by B. Schuler and on single nano-object fluorescence by M. Orrit et al. (Figure 5). Close on their heels are the Articles by A. A. Deniz on single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer and by K. Gerwert et al. on time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy of proteins. Cover picture of the special issue on single-molecule studies and biomolecular dynamics. Frontispiece of the Review article on single nano-object fluorescence by M. Orrit et al. Some of you may have used the new Citation Tracking feature launched on Wiley InterScience recently. This innovative feature allows to find content in a way not possible in the printworld. Unlike traditional reference linking which allows to see content quoted by the authors, citation tracking reveals links to content that cites the article as well. With related convenient tools we will continue to improve ChemPhysChem's web edition further. The ChemPhysChem team would like to thank our authors, reviewers, readers and the members of the Editorial Advisory Board for their continuing support over the last year. We wish you all a successful 2006 and look forward to exciting discoveries in chemistry, physics and biology some of which we hope to publish in ChemPhysChem. 1 Dr. Evelyn Wessel Deputy Editor PS: Apropos “ongoing growth”: We welcome our new sister journal ChemMedChem which is co-owned by the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) together with the other European chemical societies which form the Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EUChemSoc). The editorial staff of ChemMedChem works closely together with the teams of ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChem. The new journal replaces Il Farmaco (published by the SCI until the end of 2005) and it will cover all aspects of drug discovery and development processes.