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ACS'S OLDEST AND NEWEST JOURNALS
Stang takes over society's flagship publication; new journal to debut
SOPHIE WILKINSON
With the coming of the new year, a number of changes are in place at ACS's flagship Journal of the American Chemical Society, which has been published since 1879. University of Utah chemistry professor Peter J. Stang has succeeded University of Texas chemistry professor Allen J. Bard as editor as of Jan. 1 (C&EN, April 9, 2001, page 9). Bard had been at the helm of the weekly since 1982. Stang, who had been editor of ACS's Journal of Organic Chemistry for two years, was an associate editor of JACS for 18 years prior to that.
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Stang notes that ACS is committed to "making the Web editions of all the journals--but in particular JACS--the leading, cutting-edge Web editions in chemistry." For instance, JACS and the other ACS journals are developing such features as the ability for readers to manipulate 3-D images and the inclusion of color movies and animation.
Both the print and Web editions of JACS will benefit from other advances ushered in by Stang. Beginning this month, JACS now requires authors to submit a graphic for the journal's table of contents page. Along with the title, the graphic provides the reader with a sense of the paper at a glance, making for easier browsing, he says. This brings the format of JACS into alignment with that of most other ACS journals.
Stang has also moved the communications section--"where people report in preliminary format their most exciting, cutting-edge work"--from the back of the journal to the front. His most substantive change will be to introduce "perspectives," periodic, invited overviews of emerging areas by experts and pioneers in those fields.
The first print issue of the new Journal of Proteome Research (JPR) goes in the mail on Feb. 21. The journal--the society's 31st--will be published in print six times per year. Accepted articles will also be posted continually on the publication's website as soon as they have been reviewed and prepared for publication. Manuscripts can be submitted by mail or via the Web at http://pubs.acs.org/JPR.
The journal will feature multidisciplinary coverage of systemwide protein analysis and function, drawing on advances in the fields of chemistry, biology, applied physics, and computer science. The primary topics are expected to encompass new approaches to sample preparation, advances in high-throughput protein identification and analysis, array-based measurements, structural-genomics data related to protein function, and metabolic and signal pathway analysis.
The peer-reviewed journal will contain full-length papers, communications, technical notes, perspectives, and reviews. It will also offer synopses of research articles from other journals, news briefs, book reviews, and a calendar of events. The first issue, dated January/February 2002, will include articles by proteomics luminaries such as Donald F. Hunt, University of Virginia; John R. Yates III, Scripps Research Institute; Catherine C. Fenselau, University of Maryland; Rudolf Aebersold, Institute for Systems Biology; and Steven P. Gygi, Harvard Medical School.
The JPR editor William S. Hancock, vice president of proteomics at instrument supplier Thermo Finnigan (C&EN, July 9, 2001, page 12). He will be assisted by Joshua LaBaer, director of Harvard's Institute of Proteomics, and by a second as-yet-unannounced associate editor.
Subscription prices for JPR will range from $25 for the Web edition for ACS members up to $750 for the print edition for an institution outside North America.
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