# CHIMIA News

Dear CHIMIA readers,

The members of the Editorial Board would like to wish you a happy and successful 2023.

## Open Access

CHIMIA is a platinum Open Access journal. The Swiss Chemical Society, as the publisher of CHIMIA, and the CHIMIA Editorial Board affirm their support to the growing movement across Europe towards Open Access and Open Science. Many of our authors report on research that has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation or other public funding bodies and are increasingly required to publish in journals that are open access or that allow placement in public repositories. We support this development and are delighted to contribute to the widespread dissemination of scientific findings made possible by public funding.

Platinum Open Access means that the online scientific articles are available immediately, free of charge, under license CC_BY 4.0 and that the authors are not required to pay article or page fees. The authors also retain copyright of their work. CHIMIA is indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ.org) and other websites including PubMed.

We are continuing with our policy of publishing review-type articles grouped in special topic issues, organised by Guest Editors. We also consider Notes on subjects that are of interest and relevance to the Swiss Chemistry community.

## CHIMIA Website

The https://www.chimia.ch/ website has been designed to provide all CHIMIA offerings from submission to pdfs of published articles, based on the OJS system. On https://www.chimia.ch/ you will find direct free access to all past content going back to 1990 and a link for online manuscript submission. PDFs of the full issues are also available to SCS members. The huge task of programming and migration of over 30 years of digital content was undertaken by Editorial Board member Martin Brändle, to whom we are very grateful.

## CHIMIA Content and Editorial Board

Prof. Catherine E. Housecroft is continuing in her role as Editor-in-Chief, producing an excellent set of topical issues with themes including mass spectrometry, materials science, medicinal chemistry, ultrafast spectroscopy, research by young professors, polymers, chemical ecology and NCCR TransCure in 2022. These, together with the regular issues featuring the SCS Junior and Major Laureates, made great reading.

The columns, prepared by the SCS Divisions and SCS Partners, are an important part of CHIMIA. The columns include the Swiss Science Concentrates, edited by Francesca Paradisi and her team, the Analytical Highlights, edited for many years by Veronika Meyer, the Polymer and Colloid Highlights, edited by Christoph Weder, the Universities of Applied Sciences column, edited by Ludovic Gremaud, Chemical Education contributions, edited by Catherine Housecroft, and the Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Highlights, edited by Kathrin Lang, and Flow Chemistry Highlights edited by Agnieszka Ladosz and Benjamin Martin.

The CHIMIA Editorial Board managed to meet in-person after two years of online meetings, which made the discussions much more useful and enjoyable. We thank all the EB members for their contributions in the past year. Thanks also go to Francesca Paradisi and her team for the SSC column over the past two years and we look forward to welcoming Jason Holland in 2023.

CHIMIA would be nothing without the guest editors, who organise each special topic issue, and the authors who generously provide articles covering their special subjects, written at a level that is accessible to our general chemistry readership. We hope that you will enjoy reading the CHIMIA issues of 2023.

## Special Topic Issues 2023 and the Guest Editors

Issue 1-2: Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Research, Torsten Luksch, Teodoro Laino

Issue 3: NCCR Catalysis - Carbon-neutral Production of Chemicals and Fuel, Javer Pérez-Ramírez, Jérôme Waser, Marie Francine Lagadec, Sharon Mitchell, Lauren Gamp

Issue 4: Laureates: Junior Prizes Fall Meeting 2022, Hans Peter Lüthi, Roger Alberto

Issue 5: Flow Chemistry, Claudio Battilocchio

Issue 6: Biocatalysis, Rebecca Buller

Issue 7-8: SCS Major Awards / SCS Fall Meeting 2023, Christian Bochet, Catherine E. Housecroft

Issue 9: The Swiss TPH: At the Centre of Trans-global Health, Jürg Utzinger

Issue 10: Division of Chemical Education, Jan Cvengros

Issue 11: Soil Chemistry, Claudio Screpanti

Issue 12: Green and Sustainable Chemistry - Waste Valorization, Paul Dyson, Felix Bobbink, Fabrice Gallou

## Manuscript Submission

Scientific articles and columns must be submitted through CHIMIA's journal management system OJS, accessible via https://www.chimia.ch/. A Word template is available along with instructions on how to submit.

Instructions for submission are also given in the Instructions to Authors 2023 on https://www.chimia.ch/ and on the following pages in this issue. Citation style files for Endnote, Mendeley, Zotero and Papers are also provided.

## Online Availability

All CHIMIA scientific articles from 1990 to the current issue are open access and available online at https://www.chimia.ch/. SCS members may access full issues as PDF documents from scg.ch → CHIMIA → Full pdf-Downloads.

## Social Media

CHIMIA has a Twitter account @CHIMIA_journal that we use as a content alert for topical issues and other items of news relevant to CHIMIA and the Swiss Chemical Society. Take a look!

We have found that the amount of attention an article attracts increases if an author also promotes it on social media so we would encourage all authors to do this.

Gillian Harvey, Chairperson