Exciting Opportunities to Publish Your Analytical Research - American

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Exciting Opportunities to Publish Your Analytical Research: Analytical Chemistry, ACS Sensors, and the Journal of Proteome Research time to Analytical Chemistry. My willingness to assist JPR reflects not only my respect for the journal, but also the importance of proteomics/metabolomics to the broader discipline of analytical chemistry, and perhaps to my inability to say no when asked to help. Thus, please submit your most exciting manuscripts to Analytical Chemistry (what else can I say?) but also consider other ACS journals to be the homes for your impactful and stimulating research.

s you know, you are reading an editorial in Analytical Chemistry, and we publish articles encompassing a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering research related to chemical measurement science. The subfields of analytical chemistry include many disciplineselectrochemistry, chromatography, mass spectrometry, microfluidics, nanoscience, among many othersand several of these areas have their own journals. As analytical chemistry expands and evolves, so do the journals in the field. Within the ACS portfolio of journals, there are some significant and exciting changes starting this Fall. A new journal, ACS Sensors, is now accepting submissions, with its first issue expected in January 2016. J. Justin Gooding, professor at The University of New South Wales’s School of Chemistry, is its inaugural Editor-in-Chief. ACS Sensors is devoted to the dissemination of new and original knowledge on “all aspects of sensor science that selectively sense chemical or biological species or processes” and includes the areas of biosensors, gas sensors, chemical sensors, and others. Justin Gooding explains that “ACS Sensors articles may address conceptual advances in sensing that are applicable to many types of analytes or application papers which report on the use of an existing sensing concept in a new way or for a new analyte.” ACS Sensors welcomes articles across a broad spectrum of sensors research where the primary focus describes a sensing issue and how it is addressed. Changing the topic to a different analytical subfield, the wellestablished Journal of Proteome Research (JPR) is undergoing some changes in the Fall of 2015. Prof. Hancock is stepping down this Fall and the journal is actively looking to appoint the next Editor-in-Chief. We wish Prof. Hancock great success in his research and university duties and thank him for his efforts in leading and managing the journal since its inception. JPR’s initial issue was published in February 2002 and as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief, Bill Hancock began his first editorial in that first issue by highlighting the promise, as well as several limitations, of the proteomics field, including issues with characterizing low-level proteins and dealing with the data deluge. Although there have been amazing technological innovations and the data quality has greatly improved, the field is still dealing with many of the same issues. In response, the last 13 years have seen the journal expand in its reach and impact, and it now encourages article submissions in proteomics, metabolomics, and informatics. The proteomics field is growing, the journal is vibrant, and JPR will introduce a new Editor in 2016. You might be wondering who will oversee JPR until a new editor is appointed. After careful consideration, I have agreed to support JPR during this transition by acting as the interim Editor for several months. Thus, while you may see my name associated with JPR, rest assured this is only a temporary assignment and I will still be devoting considerable energy and

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Jonathan V. Sweedler AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.

Published: October 1, 2015 9507

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03620 Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 9507−9507