2010: An Award-Winning Year for Innovation and Growth for the Most-Trusted, Most-Cited, and Most-Read Journals in Chemistry and the Related Sciences

ACS Publications continued to introduce innovations to the ACS Web Editions platform and new journal products to its portfolio of the leading journals in chemistry and the related sciences in 2010. With more than 37,000 new research articles added this year, ACS Publications now hosts over one million research articles, book chapters, and, with the recent launch of the C&EN Archives, more than 85 years of historic content from the premier newsmagazine covering the chemistry enterprise dating back to 1923.

Launched in 2010, the ACS Mobile application for the iPhone®, iPod Touch®, and iPad® was named the “Best New eProduct in Electronic Publishing” and the “Best New eProduct in Physical Sciences and Mathematics” by the Association of American Publishers. The application provides researchers more options and flexibility for staying current with research and news published by the ACS while on-the-go. This marks the second time that the ACS has received the Best New eProduct award, following the 2008 award for the launch of the ACS Web Editions platform.

During 2010, total article requests from the ACS Web Editions platform grew to more than 71 million, building on the record growth achieved in 2009. Linking at the article level between the ACS Web Editions Platform and CAS SciFinder® was enhanced to include linking to patents and reaction narratives, adding more unique benefits for the research community.

ACS Publications ranked #1 in citations and/or ISI® Impact Factor in 13 separate subject categories as reported in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports from Thomson Reuters, including all seven of the Core Chemistry categories.

ACS Publications expanded its portfolio of high quality, high impact journals in 2010:

• ACS Chemical Neuroscience introduced its first volume of publication with more than 80 research articles and reviews in all the major fields of neuroscience, led by Editor-in-Chief Craig W. Lindsley from Vanderbilt University.
• The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters completed its first full year of publication under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief George C. Schatz of Northwestern University and Deputy Editor Prashant V. Kamat from the University of Notre Dame, with 557 published letters and 58 perspectives.
• The Journal of Chemical Education completed its first year of co-publication in conjunction with the ACS Division of Chemical Education under the editorship of Norbert J. Pienta, University of Iowa.
• ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters began publication, led by Editor-in-Chief Dennis Liotta from Emory University.
• ACS Catalysis posted its first articles online in late 2010 under the leadership of Christopher W. Jones from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In addition to the new journals listed above, the Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry was retitled as ACS Combinatorial Science, with an expanded scope and updated format under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief M.G. Finn from the Scripps Research Institute.

Responding to continued growth in authorship and publishing demand, ACS Publications opened 33 new editorial offices in 2010, bringing the overall number of ACS Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors to more than 320 experts worldwide, approximately a quarter of whom are now based outside the United States.