The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the appointment of Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer as editor-in-chief of Chemical Reviews, effective January 1, 2015. Hammes-Schiffer is Swanlund Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Her appointment represents the return of Chemical Reviews to its home. William Albert Noyes, former head of the chemistry department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was the founding editor of Chemical Reviews, first published in 1925. To honour his work, the Noyes Laboratory at the University of Illinois is an ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark.
Through her service as a senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry suite and currently as deputy editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Hammes-Schiffer has long been associated with ACS Publications. She also has been on the editorial advisory boards of Accounts of Chemical Research, the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Hammes-Schiffer will succeed Editor-in-Chief Dr. Josef Michl, professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, who has served in this position since 1984.
Chemical Reviews publishes comprehensive, critical, authoritative and accessible reviews of important research in all areas of chemistry, including thematic issues focusing on a single theme or direction of emerging research. Chemical Reviews has the highest Impact Factor in Chemistry at 45.661 and is also a highly cited journal in the category of Multidisciplinary Chemistry with 124,463 total citations in the 2014 release of the Journal Citations Reports® from Thomson Reuters.
