Guest editorial: Defining new frontiers of business research across Asian countries

Purpose Relational governance has been attracting more and more attention in this century. Current research in relational governance field mainly discusses the impact of relational governance on exchange performance, the interrelation between relational and formal governance, etc. However, the limitation of the existing research in relational governance research subfield is that fewer studies have conducted a review-based study to assess global relational governance research. In other words, an attempt at research looking backward, the status quo, as well as looking forward toward research frontiers and openings for future research on global relational governance is almost nonexistent. To attempt to fill this opening, this study aims to review the global relational governance research from 2000 to 2020 combining quantitative analysis (bibliometric analysis) with qualitative analysis (content analysis). The objective of this study is as follows: 1) to look backward to discern the status quo of relational governance research from 2000 to 2020; and 2) to attempt look forward the research frontiers and opening s for future research; 3) to derive and propose a basic framework in this field.Methodology As a literature review based on the bibliometric methods, it is important to look back at papers which have been published in the past by presenting and analyzing the massive literature data. Furthermore, it is critical to propose trends that are emerging in this research field. That’s to say, both forward looking and backward looking are necessary. Accordingly, we adopted a four-step workflow consisting of data collection, descriptive analysis, quantitative analysis, and qualitative analysis complementing the results of quantitative analysis. That is to say, this paper in lock step manner combines quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis to look backward uncovering status quo of global relational governance research from 2000 to 2020, and to attempt to look identifying research frontiers and openings for future research. Especially, in quantitative analysis section, by using the tool of CitespaceV, we can objectively look backward the research hot topics and look forward research trends and frontiers initially. Subsequently, the qualitative analysis complementing the results of quantitative analysis, aims to further look backward the research topics which are important but ignored in the quantitative analysis and look forward research openings in relational governance research field. By this mean, we can draw a relatively objective and comprehensive conclusion on global relational governance research.Findings Using the data gathered from the WOS core collection database, we looked backward the status quo, and looked forward the research openings on global relational governance research. As for the status quo, the influential countries and institutions, pivotal scholars, key documents, hot topics, research trends, and frontiers were identified. With regard to the journals, Industrial Marketing Management and Journal of Business Research were the most influential journals in relational governance research field. The performance of Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing was also excellent. As for the academic performances of different stakeholders, countries such as England, USA, Spain, Australia, and China made great academic contributions to relational governance research. Institutions consisting of University of London, City University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong and University of Wisconsin System had the prominent influence. In term of authors, Laura Poppo and Kevin Zheng Zhou had the prominent impact in this research field. Through document co-citation analysis in quantitative analysis, top 3 literatures in terms of the importance of degree of all the literatures were found. As for research hot topics, ten research topics were identified by the quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis: the integration research combining formal governance with relational governance, the impactful factors of relational governance, the effect of relational governance, the norm and dimension of relational governance, supplier-manufacturer relationships/supply chain management, IT/outsourcing, (complex) projects, China, alliance, and commitment. With regard to research frontiers, three research frontiers including behavior, complementarity, and absorptive capacity were detected by quantitative analysis. Additionally, three stages of relational governance research were concluded by comprehensive induction: the first phase (2002–2008) covering the norm and the effect of relational governance, and the second phase (2009–2013) extending of research scope and objective, and the last phase (2014–2020) representing the research frontiers of relational governance research. Furthermore, three research opening s lacking of investigation and required further research were identified, including concerning how and when relational and formal governance are related, the “dark sides” of the relational governance and the research from the perspective of psychology.Originality The present research is the first that investigates the global relational governance research status quo and offers researchers a comprehensive and deeper understanding in relational governance research field. The findings can offer a more comprehensive and deeper understanding on the research status quo, “hot” topics, research trends and frontiers of global relational governance research from 2000 to 2020 and research opening for future research. Consequently, the present research represents a contribution in business marketing theory development and inter-organizational relationship management.

Kamel Mellahi and Harry Sminia provide the guest editors’ introduction to the special issue of International journal of management reviews on the frontiers of strategic management research

This systematic literature review examines the evolution and current state of green marketing research in South Asian, East Asian, and Southeast Asian countries. Utilizing the PRISMA methodology and TCCM framework, the study analyzes 97 articles published between 2000 and 2025 to map research trends, dominant variables, theoretical underpinnings, and methodological approaches. The findings reveal regional disparities in publication volume, a reliance on Western-centric theories, and methodological limitations such as overuse of convenience sampling. India and China emerge as key contributors, while many Asian countries remain underrepresented. The review identifies frequently studied constructs, including environmental concern, attitude, and green purchase intention, and recommends expanding theoretical diversity and context-specific research. It offers a comprehensive research agenda and practical insights for marketers aiming to foster sustainable consumer behavior across diverse Asian markets.

This special section of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues has six papers originally presented at the Tenth Biennial Conference of Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association, held at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan in July of 2014. During the conference, more than 80 papers were presented with more than 120 scholars in attendance. After soliciting submissions from presenters at the conference and blind-peer reviewing process of excellent referees, only six articles were accepted for this Special Issue. Prior to getting into the details of each paper, I would like to say that this collection of papers is a must read if you are interested in frontier research in the area of family economics and consumer finance in Asia. As the guest editor, I tried to include papers that addressed family issues of current concern that also complemented each other in some way. I also tried to include consumer issues that are currently prevalent in Asia. Most research studying family financial behavior of racial/ethnic groups has ignored Asian households or arbitrarily combined them with other racial/ethnic groups. In the first paper, Hanna, Lee, and Lindamood treated Asian households as a separate racial/ethnic group and suggested that Asian households should be analyzed as a separate group and should not be combined with other racial/ethnic groups for comparison purposes. As the decreasing fertility rate has become a prevalent issue, in the second paper, Huang, Chiang, and Pan empirically explored the possible effect of crime on fertility and concluded that crime did have a significantly negative effect on fertility in Taiwan under consideration of spatial dependence of fertility rate, although the magnitude was modest. Moreover, as investment in the securities markets is vital to households’ wealth accumulation and financial security, the third paper by Yao and Xu provided insight into the long-term financial security of Chinese households and found that self-assessed investment knowledge and having a long-term financial plan were positively associated with Chinese households’ participation in the securities markets. In order to better comprehend the factors associated with family’s poverty dynamic status, Surachman and Hartoyo used a stratified random sample from four sub-districts in West Java, Indonesia to reveal that family of origin played an important role in determining the welfare status of individuals through parental investment in children’s human capital. With respect to household saving issue, Poon and Hon found that the disparities in the distribution of household savings in Hong Kong were more serious than disparities in household income or expenditures. Their analysis also revealed that the major household saving motive was ‘‘precautionary’’ and the key determinant of household savings was income, implying that the life-cycle hypothesis of savings could be applied in Hong Kong. In the last paper, Kim and Hong investigated the impact of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) on life satisfaction in South Korea and concluded that the effect on life satisfaction of having CHE varied among the household groups, mainly in terms of income level and type of medical benefit programs. Households in the poverty-National Health Insurance (NHI) group exhibited much lower satisfaction compared to other groups when they experienced CHE. & Jr-Tsung Huang jthuang@nccu.edu.tw

ABSTRACTThis guest editorial is dedicated to introducing the First European Bisexual Research Conference, its theme, and, most importantly, the contributions to this special issue. I briefly discuss the specific context of this conference to explain its European focus, embeddedness in Dutch bisexual activism, and its standing on shoulders of giants (in particular the UK Bi(Re)Con). Secondly, I introduce the theme of the conference, (inter)national research frontiers, which reveals our conviction that contact zones are key to further advancing bisexual theorizing and connecting these studies with broader disciplinary and, sometimes, interdisciplinary theories of the social sciences. Thirdly, I provide a short picture or impression of the conference itself to show the diversity in contributions and research frontiers. Finally, and most importantly, I discuss relevant research frontiers to contextualize and introduce the contributions of this special issue.

In this introductory note, we offer an overview of how human resource management in Asian countries and corporations is evolving in the face of rapid business growth and integration into the global economy and we describe how the articles in this Special Issue contribute to new knowledge and insights regarding key issues, challenges, and evolution in the field of HRM in Asia. Driven by the combined forces of rapid gross domestic product growth in many Asian economies and their further integration into the global business arena, firms in Asia are in constant flux, no matter whether they are developed economies like Japan, Korea, andTaiwan; developing economies like Malaysia andThailand; or transitional economies like China and Vietnam. How will HRM systems in these countries evolve and transform under the combined forces of growth and globalization? We argue that HRM systems in these Asian firms most likely will evolve toward “bounded convergence.” The demands and expectations of the HR function to take on strategic roles (versus administrative roles) and address critical HR issues like attracting and retaining key talent, building talent pipelines, and creating high‐performing cultures are greater than ever. We conclude with a high‐level summary of the key contribution of the eight articles covered in this Special Issue. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

The articles for this Special Issue of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues were solicited from presenters at the Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association (ACFEA), held in Seoul, S. Korea in June of 2011. ACFEA, launched in 1995, brings together scholars who share a common interest in the development and dissemination of research on family and consumer issues, with an Asian flavor. Inspiration for the creation of ACFEA came from a session at an annual meeting of the 1994 American Council of Consumer Interests (ACCI) that focused on the diverse issues facing Asian families and consumers. Out of this session came a suggestion to convene a meeting in Asia dedicated to those issues, and thanks largely to the efforts of Malaysian scholars, this took place in Shah Alam, Malaysia in 1995. ACFEA has no official relationship to ACCI however. Following cooperative protocols set up at the 1995 ACFEA Meeting, the Association has met every 2 years since, each time at a location within the Northern Pacific Rim. Countries that have hosted the meetings include Malaysia, Mainland China, Taiwan, S. Korea, and the USA. There are usually no specific themes to the meetings, except for the notion that there will be an Asian content and/or author involved in the presentations. The ACFEA meetings have had a strong record of fostering cooperation among scholars from different countries and institutions who are interested in Asian family and consumer issues. This is reflected in the affiliations of the contributors to this issue, and to the cross-cultural nature of some of the articles. The ACFEA meetings have also bolstered interest in family and consumer issues within the countries represented by attendees. This is especially the case in Malaysia, where the Malaysian Association of Family and Consumer Economics (which has its own journal) was an offshoot of the inaugural ACFEA meeting. In soliciting articles for the Special Issue, we, the guest editors, tried to include presentations that addressed issues of current concern that also complemented each other in some way. We also tried to include consumer issues that are currently prevalent in Asia. Many Asian countries are front runners in the adoption of Information Technology and two articles in this issue address the issue of technology adoption (Jun and Yeo; Yieh, Chen and Wei). The topic of green consumption has been discussed widely in Asia, both by academics and policy makers. This concern is reflected in the topics addressed in the article by Kim et al. China is an Asian market which is experiencing a fast growth both in terms of quantity and quality. The article by Sharpe, Yao and Lao looks at credit card adoption in China and identifies its correlates. The country of origin effect is found strongly in Asian countries, and the article by Chern and Lin deals with its impact in consumer valuation. Finally, the article by Kim et al. deals with an Asian consumer issue from a different angle, by addressing the experience of Asian immigrants in the U.S. A highlight of the ACFEA meetings is the Country Reports session. This usually is the concluding session, wherein delegates from each country give an update on research and consumer issues facing their country. In this Special Issue we have included as a research note the very informative Country Report of the Malaysian delegate J.-Y. Rha Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea e-mail: jrha@snu.ac.kr

The contribution of aquaculture to global food production has been steadily increasing and this sector has been recognised as one of the fastest growing food production sectors globally. According to recent FAO statistics, global farmed food fish production in 2010 was 59.9 million tonnes with a farm gate value estimated to be at US $119.4 billion. Asia contributed about 89 % of global aquaculture production. Fish and fishery products are also one of the most traded food commodities and in 2010, the trade was valued at US $109 billion. Aquaculture thus, contributes to both food security and economic development in several developing countries. However, the sector is facing serious economic and production losses due to diseases. It is estimated that up to 40 % of tropical shrimp production valued at more than US $3 billion is lost due to viral diseases. Viral disease outbreaks have been the main reason for shift in cultured species from black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) that is native to several countries in Asia to the exotic Pacific white leg shrimp (P. vannamei). Viral diseases have been a significant threat for the ornamental fish industry and diseases of ornamental fish may also affect food fish as exemplified by the herpes virus of the ornamental Koi carp affecting common carp. The problem of viral nervous necrosis by betanodavirus and the threat to the budding Asian seabass, a marine fish whose culture is being promoted, calls for urgent strategies to identify and manage such viral diseases. Management of disease problems require scientific knowledge of the pathogen including its environmental reservoirs, understanding of the pathogenesis, its pathogenicity and the effect of environment on the virulence attributes, availability of diagnostic methods and immune response of the host. Significant advances have been made by molecular biological studies and the complete genomes of several viruses have been sequenced. This has lead to improved diagnostic methods, but the unavailability of preventive and therapeutic measures is a serious constraint for aquaculture. This special issue covers viral diseases affecting both finfish and crustacean not only in the Indian subcontinent but also in other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The special issue covers a wide range of subjects including epidemiology, genomics, diagnostics, risk assessment, and possible control measures such as vaccines and RNA interference. It is hoped that the volume will be an invaluable source of scientific information on the viral diseases of aquacultured species.

The papers in this special section were presented at three well-known conferences organized in 2014: EAI Mobihealth, IEEE HealthCom, and IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics. EAI Mobihealth is an annually organized conference, which started in 2010, to address the demands of the rapidly evolving disciplines of wireless communications, mobile computing, and sensing technologies in healthcare. The IEEE-Healthcom is held every year since 1999 in different countries in Asia, Europe, and in America. It aims at bringing together interested parties working in the field of healthcare to exchange ideas, discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and develop collaborations. The IEEE Biomedical Health Informatics Conference started in 2013 and is organized every year providing the forum to showcase enabling technologies of computing, devices, imaging, sensors, and systems that optimize the acquisition, transmission, processing, storage, retrieval, visualization, and analysis of medical data. The aim of this special section is to present an overview of recent advances in sensing technologies, monitoring of patients, security and privacy of data transfer, provision of collaborative environments, data gathering and analysis from various sources, and predictive models, which all finally target the best strategy for patient monitoring and treatment.

Exergy analysis, as a core evaluation tool to improve energy efficiency and system sustainability, has been applied in various fields over the last decades, leading to a significant increase of exergy-related publications. However, the existing reviews only analyzed part of publications related to a specific topic and lack a systematic analysis. To fill this research gap, a coupled bibliometric analysis and knowledge map method was conducted on 13,941 exergy-related publications during 1997-2020. Results show that publications increased from 54 in 1997 to 1976 in 2020. Journal of Energy is the most productive journals (1543 publications), and Energy & Fuels is the most popular subject category (9204 publications). Three developing countries in Asia (China, Iran, and Turkey) are the most productive, accounting for 45.87%. The main research objects and methods in this field were identified by cluster analysis. Furthermore, timeline analysis and burst detection analysis show that the new research hotspots or research frontiers will focus on organic Rankine cycle, building industry, multi-objective optimization, and sustainable development. This study further pointed out the future direction of the exergy field: in-depth application of the coupled exergy and exergoeconomic analysis; technologies development for efficient utilization of renewable energy, clean energy, and waste heat; enrichment of exergy framework incorporating environmental perspectives and mathematical methods; adaptation of theoretical research; and system optimization to the needs of social development. Through the review of exergy-related publications, results of this study can help to better identify the research hotspots and provide a valuable reference for future research.

It is our great pleasure to present the fifth JDR Award to Dr. Yuichiro Usuda. Dr. Usuda has made outstanding contributions to the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR) as the guest editor and the author of the JDR’s “Special Issue on NIED Frontier Researches on Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience 2017” in Vol.12 No.5, which has been the most downloaded special issue for the past three years. Dr. Usuda is a leading scientist in frontier research for natural disaster risk management and resilience in National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED). He is working with researchers of many different disciplines as well as stake-holders in practical devastating disaster management situations. Thus, in his studies, he has been integrating many different disciplines to generate a new intellectual paradigm for managing multi-hazard disasters, such as earthquake disasters combined with meteorological disasters caused by rain, drought, snow, extreme heat or cold, ice, or wind. This is quite important in Japan and other disaster-prone countries, considering today’s global climate change. The special issue is the fruit of his research efforts. On behalf of the JDR editorial board, I wish to thank Dr. Yuichiro Usuda for his efforts and to congratulate him as the winner of the fifth JDR Award.

This is an exclusively prepared special issue containing papers selected from two well-established events, namely, International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES) and International Conference on Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources (NURER) and some invited papers in order to make a unique source to reflect the progress in the area of novel nuclear energy technologies. ICENES, with a long scientific tradition, started in 1978 as an autonomous, self-organized event by a group of independent nuclear scientists. The goal was to find unconventional new routes for improving the use of the atomic energy beyond the commercial grounds. It was evident that the field of “strong interactions” still has a broad way for further developments to harness the most powerful source of energy of our universe, in a safe way and with better use of natural resources. The Nuclear Field is plenty of opportunities, and no free from risks, and it is the spirit of human vocation to explore those domains where new findings can change some essential aspects of our world, as is the case of Energy. Nuclear energy is considered the ultimate energy to secure the future of the mankind. Hence, considerable research activities and international collaboration are continuing on innovative nuclear energy systems, such as fusion energy, fusion-fission hybrids, GEN-IV reactors, space nuclear reactors, and power systems and accelerator-driven systems. Asian countries are considerably progressing in the construction of new nuclear reactor as well as in the research and the development of innovative nuclear energy technologies. A sort of new international merging is needed to recover capability and potential in this field of Physics and Technology, which should play an important role in coping with the energy problem and its environmental effects. NURER is a relatively younger one, which was initiated in 2010 as an independent event to look inside the long-term future of energy problems, without forgetting to bridge the gap between the present time and the future, parallel to the ICENES series in alternating years. Both are unique conferences in their nature, considering that nuclear energy, and other newly emerging alternative and renewable energy technologies as complementing and not competing directions with each other. On that way, ICENES and NURER conferences represent two alternating fora, where present and future technologies and systems are discussed under the same umbrella and establish a bridge with closer communication and mutual understanding between nuclear and renewable energy communities. The mankind needs both of them. In that sense, both conferences cover a wide range of topics related to nuclear power production; nuclear hydrogen production; hydrogen energy, energy efficiency, and management; solar energy; wind energy; hydrogen production and storage; renewable energy; fuel cells; bio-energy, etc. In closing, this particular special issue aims to make a unique collection on “progress in novel nuclear energy technologies” from the papers selected from the above listed conferences along with some invited papers which have peer-reviewed, improved, enhanced, and accepted for publication in IJER. The guest editor would like to take this opportunity to warmly thank the editor-in-chief, Prof Dr Ibrahim Dincer; Journal Manager, Peter Creaton; and the authors of the special issue papers to make this special issue a fruitful outcome.

I would like to express my appreciation to the 18 paper authors and more than 40 reviewers, as well as Dr. J. Stafford as the editor-in-chief and Dr. J. Schepers as the coeditor-in-chief, for their great efforts. After the peer review, three papers were accepted. Rejection was due to out of scope, irregular format, insufficient originality and weak critical discussion. I would like to emphasize that all researchers in Asian countries try to create and submit original papers to Precision Agriculture. March 11th, 2011, was the day when NE Japan was attacked by the tri-disaster: M 9.0 super earthquake, 10-m high Tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear power station accident. During the rescue and recovery from the disaster, 4 ACPA was held in Obihiro, Japan. Systems approaches to recovering from disaster will be an important issue to be faced in the coming years for Asian countries. The guest editor also much appreciates the help and sympathy from all over the world.

Time to celebrate 10 years of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. Find out more about the development of the journal, and learn about recent editorial updates. A warm hello and healthy New Year 2022. This New Year's celebration is of symbolic nature to the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry as it falls in the middle of AsianJOC’s 10th anniversary celebration. The 10th volume was published in 2021, and in 2022 AsianJOC is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Let′s briefly experience the journey from AsianJOC’s birth till the year 2022—in which our authors, referees, board members and readers play a big role: Ten years ago, the journal was founded to cater the organic chemistry community in the Asian and Pacific region (APAC). Back then, it was already evident that excellent research articles in the field of organic chemistry had been published by authors from Asian countries, and that this number was growing tremendously and expected to grow further. In addition to the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, the publisher Wiley-VCH thus promoted the foundation of the sister journal for the APAC region. Also, researchers from the field of organic chemistry and the member societies of ACES were involved. ACES, the Asian Chemical Editorial Society, is a group of 12 major chemical societies from the APAC region that together co-own the journal and coordinate future publishing activities. The first issue of AsianJOC was published in September 2012. Actually, the anticipated growing number of excellent research papers in the APAC region found a home in AsianJOC which is great! AsianJOC has been growing continuously in the past 10 years, with only a small dip during the COVID pandemic. The journal has reached an all-time high in published articles in 2021 (Figure 1a). This is a fantastic development! If we look at the past three years, the increasing number of published papers correlates with an increase in quality and impact of published content, which is reflected in the Impact Factor growth in that time period (Figure 1b). a) AsianJOC's growth in publications in the past ten years, and growth in b) Impact Factor in the past three years. From its founding, AsianJOC has been rooted in the organic chemistry community in Asia, while at the same time it attracts authors and readers from all over the world. Figure 2a shows that more than 75% of submissions come from the Asia-Pacific region. The biggest contributors are India and China. AsianJOC is an attractive international journal that also reaches an international audience with more than half of readers coming from Europe and America (Figure 2b). To conclude the journey, we celebrate the success of AsianJOC, which would have not been possible without the amazing support from authors, reviewers, and board members, and the support from our ACES society members. The whole editorial team thanks you for your support. Depiction of AsianJOC's international authorship and readership a) Share of published articles by country in 2021 b) Share of full text downloads by region in 2021. If you're interested in learning more about the early days of AsianJOC, you can look forward to an upcoming special Editorial by Editorial Board Member Hyun-Joon Ha. Prof. Ha, who has been involved with the journal from the very start, gives a retrospective view on the journal's development. In celebration of the 10th volume, AsianJOC hosted its first virtual symposium on November 23, 2021 that attracted almost 500 registrants. AsianJOC co-chair Keiji Maruoka and myself, Deputy Editor Dörthe Mellmann, moderated the symposium and shed light onto the successful development of the journal since its launch. In addition, three Board members happily agreed to present their research, followed by a question and answer session: Editorial Board co-chair Sungwoo Hong from KAIST in Korea gave fantastic insights into radical-mediated regioselective C−H functionalization of heteroarenes. International Advisory Board member Namrata Rastogi from CSIR-CDRI in India shared with us excellent results that she and her team achieved in organo-photoredox mediated reactions for hetero/carbocycle synthesis. Editorial Board member Hirohisa Ohmiya from Kanazawa University in Japan gave an inspiring and impressive talk on radical-mediated carbene catalysis. Positive feedback from participants showed that the event was overall successful and well-received by the participants. In addition to the symposium, the editorial team compiled a Special Collection featuring exclusively Board member contributions. Some contributions were highlighted with a cover picture (Figure 3). All articles are free to read until February 2022, browse and discover their work by clicking here. Cover Picture of the 10th Anniversary Special Collection. To cater our readers with cutting-edge research, and to give you the opportunity to contribute with your research paper to topical Special Collections, AsianJOC has new special collections planned for 2022. One is on Boron Chemistry and prepared in collaboration with our sister journal European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Another one is a Special Collection of recent work on Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Organic Chemistry. The guest editors are Professor Liang-Nian He from Nankai University in China and Professor Shoubhik Das from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. If you plan to publish your results in one of the areas, we invite you to submit your manuscript directly to AsianJOC or EurJOC. If you have any questions or suggestions you may get in touch with our journals by e-email. Publishing is more than just getting the work written, accepted and published. Probably the most important aspect after publication is to make your work visible to your peers. We support you by promoting your papers and cover pictures on various Social Media Channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and WeChat. Authors can then re-tweet and share our posts on their personal and institutional social media channels. Benefit from more visibility, and publish your paper with us. To stay tuned, please connect with AsianJOC's Twitter page, and our joint ACES journal social media channels on Facebook, and most recently on LinkedIn! The Asian Chemical Editorial Society's LinkedIn page features not only the latest news and updates from AsianJOC, but also from our ACES sister journals Chemistry—An Asian Journal and ChemNanoMat. For our Chinese speaking authors, you can follow our journals’ news on WeChat Wiley Chem. On Wiley Online Library you can get all information about our journal, browse issues, Special Collections and get content alerts. At the ACES journals, and at our sister journals from Chemistry Europe which is the association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries, we constantly strive to find ways in which we can improve the author experience at our journals. With this in mind, in October last year we introduced an important change that makes the submission process simpler than ever. For manuscripts reporting the results of primary research, we have now only one article type—the research article. We combined the previous Full Paper and Communication into the new Research Article, giving our authors the flexibility and freedom to write their research how it needs to be written, submitting a research article to the journals which can be of any length. For more information on this and the other types of manuscript we publish, we encourage you to consult the journal Notice to Authors page. To help make it easier for readers and authors to cite articles immediately after publication, we will be using eLocators to identify articles for Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry from January 2022. Instead of page numbers, manuscripts will be identified by a 10-character reference derived from the article's digital object identifier (DOI). For example, this editorial should be cited as “D. Mellmann, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2022, 11, e202100775”. eLocators serve the same purpose as page numbers in print media and are being more frequently used in the publishing industry as most research is published online. They have the advantage that your article is immediately citable in its final form upon acceptance, rather than having to wait for it to be assigned to an issue. We believe this is a positive step towards the digitization of science publishing, and that it will ultimately serve to make life easier for those who publish and read articles from the Chemistry Journal group. Please note this does not change the citation style for articles that have already been published in issues up to the end of 2021; these will still be cited with their assigned page numbers. The COVID pandemic has shown us how uncertain, surprising, and changeable life can be. This makes it for you and us difficult to travel and to meet each other. Once the situation gets better, we will keep you updated about what conference we plan to attend, so that we can meet you in person. We want to know how we can best support you in these difficult times. Thus, feel free to inform us, if you need additional time for submissions, revisions or for doing peer review. Though we try to be flexible we want to ensure a timely peer-review process. We encourage referees to use the “accept” or “decline” button in our invitation letters. This action gives the editor immediate information about whether or not new referees need to be invited. AsianJOC is looking to tie closer relations with the national member societies of ACES, in particular with the organic chemistry divisions. We are working on making the relationship between editors, authors and societies more transparent and lively. The member societies can be seen as a bridge between authors and publisher. We want to make sure that authors benefit from publishing with us and grow with us, e. g. in the form of organized workshops, sponsorship of lectures, awards, poster prizes, and so forth. Are you also curious about the New Year 2022? Let's get together and start shaping our future collaboration. Inform us what support you need. Give us feedback. Send us your papers, Reviews and suggestions for Special Collections. On behalf of the editorial team I am looking forward to working with you, and I hope you will join us as a reader, author, or referee in 2022. Thank you for reading and for your continued support of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry!

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