The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the appointment of a team of geographically dispersed chief editors to lead ACS Omega, which will begin publication in mid-2016. With an emphasis on rapid editorial decisions, ACS Omega will select articles after rigorous peer review for technical quality, and will swiftly publish them open access to enable the scientific community to determine the significance and perceived impact of the underlying research.
The ACS Omega editors are based across several key regions of active R&D - the Americas, Europe, India and China - and bring expertise from four distinct scientific areas of interest, in which they are acknowledged leaders worldwide.
ACS Omega's four principal editors are Dr. Cornelia Bohne, a professor of Chemistry at the University of Victoria, Canada, and a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada; Dr. Krishna Ganesh, director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India; Dr. Luis Liz-Marzán, Ikerbasque research professor and scientific director at Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biomateriales in Spain; and Dr. Deqing Zhang, director of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
The ACS Omega editors have themselves authored in aggregate more than 850 peer-reviewed research articles, book chapters and patents. Their prolific publishing records and academic and professional achievements set the foundation for a team that will define and lead the editorial vision for the journal, drawing on a geographically diverse Editorial Board they will soon enlist - to be composed of active researchers with wide-ranging expertise and scientific backgrounds across chemistry, chemical engineering and allied interdisciplinary scientific fields.
Authors who publish their research in ACS Omega will benefit from rapid editorial decisions, swift publication, and immediate open availability to the global scientific community and general public.
ACS Omega will provide an attractive new opportunity for authors to publish open access with the ACS. The Society currently publishes more than 40,000 peer-reviewed articles annually across its subscription-based journals portfolio of 50 preeminent journals, but tens of thousands of manuscripts reporting research advances are declined each year for lack of topical fit with editorial scope or perceived impact for the reader audience.
The journal offers a new venue for such research advances to be widely disseminated under the Society's auspices. ACS journal editors who determine that an author's research would fit better within another ACS journal can now facilitate direct transfer of the author's submission via an opt-in service that simplifies submission to and consideration by a subsequent ACS journal, now including transfer to ACS Omega. Whether via such manuscript transfer or direct submission to ACS Omega, ACS authors now have a high-visibility venue for rapid publication of global research without the tedium of reformatting their manuscripts and undergoing additional rounds of peer review.
ACS Omega will begin accepting research submissions in April 2016 and will publish its first articles online early this summer.
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