INSIDE THIS SPECIAL FALL 2020 Contents EDITION OF ACS AXIAL axial.acs.org deeper ACS PUBLICATIONS SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY NEW ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & WHAT CHEMISTS NEED LAUNCHESdive NEW JOURNALS PARTNERS WITH ACS PUBLICATIONS TO TECHNOLOGY JOURNALS TO KNOW ABOUT Explore the ResearchFOCUSED behind ON theFOOD 2020 AND Journal Citation Reports® LAUNCH ACCOUNTS OF MATERIALS NAME EDITORS AND MACHINE LEARNING AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCH OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS The 2020 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) show the vital role ACS Publications journals play in publishing important, highly cited research. Thanks to the dedication and brilliance of our authors and reviewers, 89% of ACS journals have an Impact Factor greater than 3 this year.
Browse this year’s JCR figures, which are based on citations from 2018 to 2019:
EXPLORE THE RESEARCH HOW ACS IS SUPPORTING THE LEARN HOW ACS SUPPORTS SCIMEETINGS: PRESENT YOUR RESEARCH BEHIND THE 2020 JOURNAL CHEMISTRY COMMUNITY DURING THE OPEN SCIENCE BEYOND THE ACS FALL 2020 VIRTUAL CITATION REPORTS® COVID-19 PANDEMIC MEETING & EXPO
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Impact Factor 4.031 pubs.acs.org/acsagscitech ACS PUBLICATIONS LAUNCHES NEW JOURNALS FOCUSED ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
ournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Technical University of Munich and the chair of is growing into a family of journals with the Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensors. J launch of ACS Food Science & Technology Hofmann is a member of the ZIEL Institute for and ACS Agricultural Science & Technology Food and Health and Codirector of the in 2021. These two new journals will offer Bavarian Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry deeper dives into the two core fields covered Center. He received the 2014 ACS by the original Journal of Agricultural and Advancement in the Application of Agricultural Food Chemistry. This expansion reflects the and Food Chemistry Award. growing importance of both food chemistry and agricultural chemistry, as well as the increasing ACS Food Science & Technology will publish number of manuscripts produced in these research in all areas of food science, technology, exciting fields. engineering, and nutrition. The journal encourages submissions across fundamental and applied Both of the new journals will be led by Journal of research in food sciences. Professor Coralia Agricultural and Food Chemistry Editor-in-Chief Osorio Roa of the Universidad Nacional de Thomas F. Hofmann, alongside a Deputy Editor Colombia, Bogota, is the journal’s Deputy Editor. for each journal. Hofmann is the president of the ACS Agricultural Science & Technology will publish research in all areas of the agricultural sciences, technology, and engineering. The journal welcomes submissions across fundamental and applied research in agricultural sciences. Dr. Laura McConnell of Bayer’s Crop Science Division is the journal’s Deputy Editor.
Both of these new journals expect to begin accepting submissions in September 2020, with their first articles appearing online later in the year and their first issues debuting in January 2021.
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ACS Publications and ShanghaiTech University Accounts of Materials Research will also have partnered to launch a new journal, publish non-peer-reviewed commentaries that Accounts of Materials Research. This is the first give informed opinions on current research journal published by ShanghaiTech University problems. Accounts of Materials Research will and the first journal published by ACS in join the existing ACS portfolio of Accounts of collaboration with an organization in China. Chemical Research and Chemical Reviews as the foundation of a new high-impact review Accounts of Materials Research will present journal platform. short, concise, and critical articles offering overviews of basic research and applications in The journal’s first Editor-in-Chief is Northwestern all areas of materials science and engineering. University Professor Jiaxing Huang. The Jiaxing Each short review will focus on research from Huang Group employs chemical principles and the author’s own laboratory and is designed to tools to advance materials processing and teach the reader about a research project. manufacturing, and uses the new materials it develops as a platform to address problems in world in the fields of energy, materials, society, as well as in other areas of science and environment, human health, biological medical engineering. engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, and electrical engineering. ShanghaiTech ShanghaiTech University is a young, dynamic promotes a student-centered educational university with a modern campus in the heart of approach, encouraging cross-disciplinary Shanghai Pudong’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. research to nurture the next generation of With the backing and support of Shanghai leading scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Municipal Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ShanghaiTech is committed to Most articles published in Accounts of tackling the challenges facing China and the Materials Research are by invitation; however, proposals will be considered and may result in an invitation.
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THE TWO NEWEST MEMBERS OF ACS ES&T Engineering THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & Led by Editor-in-Chief Wonyong Choi, ACS TECHNOLOGY FAMILY OF JOURNALS, ES&T Engineering will publish high-impact ACS ES&T ENGINEERING AND research and review/perspective articles in ACS ES&T WATER, ARE NOW all areas of environmental technology and OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. THE engineering through a highly rigorous peer- LAUNCH OF THESE TWO JOURNALS review process. REFLECTS THAT THESE ARE FAST- Professor Choi is head of the Division of GROWING AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC Environmental Science and Engineering at RESEARCH, FOCUSING ON SOME OF POSTECH in Korea and served as an editor for the Journal of Hazardous Materials from 2008 SOCIETY’S MOST IMPORTANT GRAND to 2017 and as an Associate Editor for ES&T CHALLENGES AND AFFECTING OUR from 2017 to 2019. DAILY LIVES. He is joined by three Associate Editors: Professor Nancy G. Love of the University of Michigan, Professor Jaehong Kim of Yale University, and Professor Jun Ma of the Harbin Institute of Technology. ACS ES&T Engineering is a specialist journal that aims to serve as an international forum for research and innovation around materials, technologies, processes, data analytics, and engineering systems that manage, protect, and remediate air, water, and soil quality; treat wastes; Wonyong Choi Pohang University of recover resources; support effective decision-making within complex Science and engineered systems; and are informed by mechanistic science and Technology (POSTECH) analytics that describe complex environmental engineering systems. Korea
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Led by Editor-in-Chief Shane A. Snyder, ACS ES&T Water is a high- quality specialist journal dedicated to water research and policy. This international, multidisciplinary journal will publish novel, high-impact, peer-reviewed research on all aspects of water quality, chemistry, treatment, protection, and sustainable use/reuse and supply.
Snyder is a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Shane A. Snyder, at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and executive director Ph.D. Nanyang Environment of NTU’s Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute. Before he and Water Research arrived at NTU, he served as a professor of chemical and environmental Institute engineering and the codirector of the Water & The journal considers both marine and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center freshwater environments, as well as water used at the University of Arizona, where he maintains for industrial and municipal applications. ACS his affiliation with the College of Engineering. ES&T Water’s multidisciplinary research focus He is also a fellow of the International Water also welcomes other water-related research Association and a member of the World Health fields. Manuscripts describing public policy and Organization’s Drinking Water Advisory Panel. the underlying science used for decision-making are also encouraged. He is joined by three Associate Editors: Professor Ching-Hua Huang of the Georgia Both ACS ES&T Engineering and ACS ES&T Water Institute of Technology, Professor Jörg E. Drewes are open for submissions. of the Technical University of Munich, and Associate Professor Min Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
pubs.acs.org/estengg pubs.acs.org/estwater WHAT CHEMISTS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MACHINE LEARNING (AND SO MUCH MORE) IN CHEMISTRY, MACHINE LEARNING CAN BE MOST FRUITFULLY APPLIED TO THREE BROAD AREAS: REVEALING PATTERNS, OVERCOMING LIMITATIONS, AND ACCELERATING ANALYSIS. Revealing Patterns Where Few or None Are Known Much of a modern scientist’s or engineer’s work involves the development of structure– property relationships. The researcher in the chemical sciences carries out experiments or computational modeling across a range of molecules or materials, and then aims to understand what attributes of the chemical composition led to the observed outcome (e.g., reaction yield) or property (e.g., fluorescence). The scientist may then attempt to simplify the mapping between the set of molecules studied and the set of observed 1 properties using a few quantities of the molecules, sometimes called “descriptors” or “features.” Machine-learning models and techniques can complement and assist this traditional form of inquiry. For instance, linear regression that avoids overfitting (e.g., through cross-validation) can be used to identify the most informative descriptors for property prediction.
Collecting a large series of possible features or descriptors and evaluating their predictive performance, even in simple linear or kernel models on set-aside test data, can help to reveal previously unrecognized patterns in large data sets. Beyond set-aside test data from an original training data source, the generality of a relationship can also be tested by applying trained models to more distinct data sets. Furthermore, statistical analysis of the most important features, identified through feature selection or dimensionality-reduction techniques for multiple properties, can reveal the extent to which distinct properties can be independently tuned. For large data sets, statistical techniques can provide an excellent starting point for the structure–property relationship if no patterns are known. Overcoming the Limits of Simple Models and Human Experience As part of scientific inquiry, chemists frequently develop heuristics and theories to explain newly observed phenomena. However, people can be overconfident in heuristics and the extent of prior knowledge. Truly nonlinear or more complex relationships can be difficult to conceptualize but readily predicted by a neural network with precision beyond that of an expert. Even when using opaque models such as neural networks, their rapid evaluation can make it possible 2 for the scientist to test predictions and reveal outcomes that were unknown previously. Human intuition and experience can be essential to guiding model development, but expert knowledge has a limit in transferability among researchers. Each new graduate student must consult and interpret the same literature or coursework to reach a specific level of expertise. Interaction between people and models can help to avoid excessive duplication of the time needed for knowledge acquisition. While the models need not replace traditional scientific inquiry, they can provide support to researchers. Accelerating Computations and Analysis to Enable Rapid Discovery in Challenging Materials Spaces Evaluation of a trained machine-learning model is likely to be orders of magnitude faster than whichever method, experimental or computational, was used to generate the training data. Such a model can then be used, for example, to evaluate lead compounds if those compounds are similar enough to the training data for the model to be reliable. A key challenge is quantifying the uncertainty in model 3 prediction to know when the limits of reliability have been reached. Alternatively, high-promise but low-certainty compounds can be exploited by turning this problem on its head in an approach known as “active learning,” wherein new experiments or calculations can be carried out to acquire the most useful data to enrich models. In all cases, we should ask, “What can we learn now that we did not know directly from the experiment or calculation?” Want More?
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Visit pubs.acs.org/series/infocus for more information. deeper dive Explore the Research behind the 2020 Journal Citation Reports®
The 2020 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) show the vital role ACS Publications journals play in publishing important, highly cited research. Thanks to the dedication and brilliance of our authors and reviewers, 89% of ACS journals have an Impact Factor greater than 3 this year.
Browse this year’s JCR figures, which are based on citations from 2018 to 2019:
Impact Factor 20.832
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