Year: 2018
Type: editorial
Abstract: An important requirement for papers published in JPC is that they provide important new physical insights.There are many different points of view as to what this means, and these can change as research in a given area evolves.As a service to our authors and reviewers, the JPC editors decided to write a series of Viewpoint articles that discuss what we mean from a variety of different perspectives.Table 1 provides a list of the Viewpoints that have been published so far.Additional Viewpoints on this topic will appear, and eventually, we will combine them into a Virtual Issue with an editorial that overviews what we have discussed for authors and reviewers.In addition, our recently updated "Author Guidelines" document provides detailed information related to New Physical Insights as applies to certain categories of papers.This is located at http://pubs.acs.org/ paragonplus/submission/jpcafh/jpcafh_authguide.pdf. ■ VIRTUAL ISSUESWe have been particularly active with Virtual Issues this year.Virtual Issues (VIs) are collections of articles previously published in JPC or other ACS journals that are designed to highlight content and show interrelationships between papers.Table 2 provides a list of the VIs published this year, along with a brief description of what each VI is about.Sometimes we have a Special Issue (content relating to the contents of a meeting, or in honor of a person, or organized by a Guest Editor, or one of the JPC editors on a specific topic) that is published as a VI.We call this a Virtual Special Issue, and the one we did in 2017 is identified as a VSI in Table 2.We also use VIs to highlight a rapidly developing scientific topic.This can include papers published in a single journal or among several ACS journals in which many papers related to the topic have appeared.The list in Table 2 mentions several issues of this type, such as "B" is for Biophysics and Lead-Free Metal Halide Perovskites.A third possibility is that we do a VI to highlight papers that can be grouped from a given country or involving some theme.Particularly notable Virtual Issues this year were concerned with authors and papers from India (entitled Physical Chemistry in India), from Australia (Authors in Australia, as part of the 100th anniversary of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute), and from Canada (Hot Materials Chemistry in a Cool Country, as part of the 100th meeting of the Canadian Chemistry Conference).Also, we organized a VI entitled IUPAC 2017 -South America! that highlighted chemistry in Brazil.In celebration of the 150th birthday of Marie Curie, we published a VI entitled Virtual Issue in Honor of the 150th Birthday of Marie Curie: Highlighting Female Physical Chemists that highlighted women in physical chemistry, dating from Marie Curie (our first female author) to 66 recent papers by women who have been involved in JPC as Editors, Editorial Advisory Board members, and award winners.Other VIs done this year were Memorial Issues for David Chandler and Mildred Dresselhaus. ■ SOCIAL MEDIAThanks to Sai Konda, there
Language: Hebrew
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,500
OpenAlex ID: W2938834671