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The global pandemic emergency has once more underlined the urgent need for openness and cooperation among scientists. In the last months, the principles of Open Science1 have been embraced with unprecedented speed. The genetic structure of the new SARS-CoV-2 virus has been mapped2 in a record time of just a few days as a result of global collaboration and open data sharing and provides the basis for a growing body of research.3 Within just twelve months, several COVID-19 vaccines have been approved for use. Our current “new normal” would not be possible without these collaborative efforts, and as a result, our post (?) pandemic world is a much more open one! Alongside promoting data sharing for more efficient and rapid scientific progress, Open Science should foster a more equal distribution of knowledge around the world. However, while scientific progress has accelerated, the global distribution of knowledge is still far from equitable. Accordingly, the theme of the 2021 Open Access Week4 has been “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”.
10 years after the launch of ChemistryOpen, its mission is more important than ever. Authors of Open Access papers can reach their whole research community and beyond, sharing their results with everyone. More widely distributed, Open Access-published research can reach policy makers, healthcare professionals, and industry partners. Findings from surveying the whole Wiley portfolio have clearly demonstrated that Open Access dramatically increases readership and therefore the impact that research can have.5
For your next Open Access paper in chemistry, choose ChemistryOpen and make your research freely available to everyone. Unrestricted access to science accelerates discovery, bridges the knowledge gap, and creates a more equitable system for all.
Happy 10th Birthday, ChemistryOpen: a Gold Open Access Pioneer!In the first decade of the new century, the governments of some of the European countries that were part of ChemPubSoc Europe (now Chemistry Europe) recommended that all the research conducted with their funding should be freely accessible for all readers, irrespective of socioeconomic or geographical considerations. As a response, and with the endorsement of the owner societies, ChemPubSoc Europe launched ChemistryOpen in 2011. Still, the very first fully Open Access society-owned journal in chemistry was pretty much an experiment. But as chemists, we love experiments, and this one tried to answer whether open access was just a temporary trend in chemistry or here to stay. 10 years later, we all know the answer to this question. The public discussion around Open Access publishing has moved to the forefront, and the implementation of the Open Science principles are now deemed essential by many.6 Funding bodies, researchers, publishers and governments are in constant negotiation trying to find ways to meet the needs of an increasingly open scientific world.7 Meanwhile, the chemistry community's demand for Open Access publishing has increased at a rapid rate. 2021, the second year in succession. saw more than half of all research indexed in multidisciplinary chemistry journals published without a paywall, with a record 46% of papers published with Gold Open Access models, freely available to all (Figure 1 2). Having started accelerating five years ago, this trend shows no sign of slowing down. The resultant increase in the accessibility of chemistry research can only be of benefit for the community as a whole and we at ChemistryOpen are excited to see this happen.
Total number of manuscripts published in the Web of Science “chemistry multidisciplinary” category. The Open Access fraction is highlighted. Data taken from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. Data for the year 2021 up to December 8th.
Indeed, a lot has happened since January 2012, when former Editor-in-Chief Natalia Ortuzar chose to depict ChemPubSoc Europe and Wiley-VCH unlocking the doors to science on the first Front Cover of the journal. We went a long way since then and want to thank all our Editorial Board Members, readers and authors for their continued support! We are looking forward to keep connecting with the scientific community and sharing freely available high-quality chemistry research in the next decade of ChemistryOpen!
A message from the Board Chairs
On the occasion of this important milestone, we are please to share the thoughts of our Board Chairs:
Eva-Marie Hey Hawkins: With the introduction of ChemistryOpen, the first Chemistry Europe open-access journal, ten years ago, the publishers have shown tremendous foresight considering the important role that open-access publishing plays today. For example, funding agencies expect their funded research to have the greatest possible impact, and open access to scientific papers is certainly an important way to ensure this.
I have always believed that research results and scientific publications should be available to everyone without access barriers. Therefore, it is a great pleasure for me to serve as an Editorial Board Chair for ChemistryOpen. The journal has already come a long way, and I wish ChemistryOpen a very prosperous future.
Thomas Wirth: 10 years ago, open access publishing was still viewed as an almost strange approach to publishing and there were only few journals publishing open access papers. ChemistryOpen was one of the first journals from main publishing houses to close the gap and since that time, authors discovered open access benefits and many funders nowadays require results to be made available through open access routes. Especially researchers from low-income areas will immediately benefit from access to current research results, which will enhance science and scientific discussions enormously. The large number of high-quality papers published within the last 10 years in ChemistryOpen speak for the success of the open access approach, while the dedicated and highly professional editorial team from ChemistryOpen plays its important role often in the background.
Across the Open SeaLast year, ChemistryOpen has once again achieved a record-breaking number of downloads. Check out our 10 most downloaded papers of the last 12 months (Table 1):
Table 1. The ten most accessed articles in ChemistryOpen from December 2020 to November 2021.Corresponding Author(s)
Title
Type
DOI[a]
Zheng-Wang Qu, Vakhid A. Mamedov, Stefan Grimme
Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangements of 3-Aryloxirane-2-Carboxamides: Novel DFT Mechanistics Insights
Communication
Rituparna Das, Balaram Mukhopadhyay
Chemical O-Glycosylations: An Overview
Review
Hongbin Lu, Johan Liu
A Novel Graphene Quantum Dot-Based mRNA Delivery Platform
Full Paper
Shuting Liang
Recent Development in Liquid Metal Materials
Review
Vinicio Zanirato
The Fascinating Chemistry of α-Haloamides
Review
Giampaolo Barone, Matthias Bickelhaupt
B-DNA Structure and Stability as Function of Nucleic Acid Composition: Dispersion-Corrected DFT Study of Dinucleoside Monophosphate Single and Double Strand
Full Paper
Rosaria Ciriminna, Mario Pagliaro
Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics: A Critical Perspective on the Dawn of their Global Adoption
Review
Teodorico C. Ramalho, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
A Quantitative Molecular Orbital Perspective of the Chalcogen Bond
Full Paper
Fernando Albericio
Understanding Tetrahydropyranyl as a Protecting Group in Peptide Chemistry
Review
Anne S. Meyer, Herre S. J. van der Zant
Creation of Conductive Graphene Materials by Bacterial Reduction Using Shewanella Oneidensis
Full Paper
[a] Digital object identifiers (DOIs) can be resolved at https://doi.org.In 2021, ChemistryOpen has furthermore seen an increase of its Impact Factor by +23% (IF20: 2.9)! A big Thank You to all of our authors for sending us your fascinating research from all over the world, enabling the journal to reach a strong positioning in the everchanging and expanding publishing landscape. 10 years later, we are still the ideal venue for the submission of your next Open Access chemistry paper!
Looking into the Future… Starting the new decade with a bright outlook on the future, ChemistryOpen is proud to introduce its first Early Career Advisory Board. From January 2022 until the end of 2024, 11 scientists at early stages of their scientific careers will help to support and shape the journal with their unique perspectives (Table 2. Welcome to the team! Keep an eye on our Twitter feed, where we will be introducing our Early Career Advisory Board over the next few weeks.
Table 2.
Members of ChemistryOpen's Early Career Advisory Board.
Name
Institution
Country
Stefano Cinti
University of Naples
Italy
Eva von Domaros
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Germany
Ivana Drievnovská
Vrije University Amsterdam
Netherlands
Ludovic Faverau
Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences
France
Natalia I. Gonzalez-Pech
Hope College, Michigan
USA
Titel Jurca
University of Central Florida
USA
Matic Lozinšek
Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana
Slovenia
Moumita Majumdar
IISER Pune
India
Xiang Sheng
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin
China
Ghislaine Vantomme
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
Orestes Rivada Wheelaghan
University of Paris/Universidad de Sevilla
France/Spain
New Decade – New Features!At Chemistry Europe, author experience matters. We constantly strive to bring new ways to improve your experience at our journals. With this in mind, we launched a new article type for reporting primary research—the Research Article. The new article type combines 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, and of any length. For more information on this and the other types of manuscripts we publish, we encourage you to consult the ChemistryOpen Notice to Authors.
2022 will see some additional changes at ChemistryOpen and across the Chemistry Europe portfolio. From January 2022, we will be using eLocators to identify articles for ChemistryOpen. This change should make it easier for readers and authors to cite articles immediately after publication. 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 “F. R. Novara, ChemistryOpen 2022, 11, e202100270”. 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 Europe portfolio. Please note that 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.
Something SpecialIn February 2021, ChemistryOpen has published a Special Issue that highlighted the DFG-funded cluster of research SPP 1708,8 dedicated to Material Synthesis in Ionic Liquids. Michael Ruck, chair of the research cluster, served as Guest Editor for this issue. Thank you very much to all the authors that have sent their interesting research for this Collection, and to our Guest Editor Michael Ruck!
For our anniversary year, more exciting collections are in the pipeline! Together with our Guest Editors Barbara Kirchner (Bonn, Germany), Mihail Barboiu (Montpellier, France), Eva von Domaros (Jena, Germany), and Alessandro Scarso (Venice, Italy), we are setting up a Special Collection highlighting the multi-faceted chemistry of water: H2Open. Stay tuned for more updates!
A second Special Collection, coordinated together with our sister journals Analysis & Sensing and Chemistry−Methods and bolstered by the help of Dechen Jiang (Nanjing), Bin Su (Zhejiang), Deju Ye (Nanjing), and Neso Sojic (Bordeaux) will be dealing with methods and applications for bioimaging and sensors.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the journal, a Special Collection showcasing the work of our Board Members will be published over the course of the entire year. We look forward to learning more about the Research of our past and present Board Members.
Find Your Place on the MapEvery major scientific breakthrough is built on the back of countless prior efforts. Often, such findings can appear incremental, and on occasion even be negative. Yet, such experiments form the backbone of scientific progress, and as such they have to be documented. At ChemistryOpen, we welcome the submission of all high-quality science regardless of the degree of novelty. We are interested in all details that complete the research landscape!9
The chemistry landscape. Copyright 2022, Wiley-VCH.
Keeping in Touch!Are you interested in ChemistryOpen? Do you have an idea, a comment, or some criticism and want to let us know? Would you like to be more involved with the journal, maybe suggesting a topic for a Special Collection or proposing a topic for a Review? Please get in touch and contact us here in the Editorial Office. We look forward to hearing from you! For learning more about the latest content and seeing what our Editors are up to, follow us on Twitter @ChemistryOpen!
On behalf of the entire ChemistryOpen Editorial Team, we thank our Editorial Advisory Board members, reviewers, authors, and readers for their continuous support and wish you all the best for 2022! We look forward to the next decade of ChemistryOpen and to what 2022 will bring!
Dr. Francesca R. Novara
Editor-in-Chief
ChemistryOpen
Conflict of interestThe authors declare no conflict of interest.
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