New developments in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis: Growth and high-impact research for green organic synthesis

Abstract

Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis has continued on the upward curve in 2011 and passed several milestones along the way. The submissions exceeded 1000, the number of printed pages reached 3500, and the number of published articles passed the 400 mark. With 2010 impact factors of 5.25 (2-year IF) and 5.36 (5-year IF) ASC continued to be at the top for green synthesis. Submissions and published papers from Europe and from Asia continue to dominate. Over one quarter of the published papers now come from China and Hong Kong. The percentage of communications continued to grow and is now 54% of the published articles. The new Editorial and Advisory Boards have settled in and with them Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis will further change and develop over the next years. The goal of Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis continues to be to publish seminal research as chemists move toward greener synthesis: "new catalytic systems effecting perfect chemical reactions that give only the desired products, with 100% selectivity and 100% yield without unwanted wastes". © 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH&Co. KGaA, Weinheim.