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Looking back, looking forward: In 2000, ChemBioChem debuted. The chemistry of carbohydrates, nucleic acids, peptides, proteins, natural products and other small molecules had reached a level that allowed biological questions to be probed. Today, there is no end in sight to studying biological matter with chemical tools or making use of biological methods to produce chemicals.
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Produtos Biológicos/metabolismo , Carboidratos/química , Ácidos Nucleicos/metabolismo , Peptídeos/metabolismo , Proteínas/metabolismo , Produtos Biológicos/química , Humanos , Ácidos Nucleicos/química , Peptídeos/química , Proteínas/química , Biologia SintéticaRESUMO
Silver Jubilee: As Chemistry-A European Journal celebrates its 25th anniversary, Peter Gölitz looks back on the events that led to the founding of the journal. From initial concept through to successful launch, collaborations and co-operations were required to cut the Gordian Knot and make a dream of Jean-Marie Lehn and others come true.
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Should manuscripts by young authors with low Hâ indices be directly rejected? Such crazy ideas can be extrapolated from the notion that lots of citations are a guarantee for high quality. Such flawed developments in scientific publishing are one theme of the Editorial by the Editor in Chief of Angewandte Chemie, as are far more positive aspects, such as the activities of the German Chemical Society (GDCh; Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) in it anniversary year, 2017.
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On September 10, 2017, the GDCh celebrated the anniversary of the founding of one of its predecessor organizations, and on September 11, to mark this anniversary an Angewandte Fest Symposium was held at the Freie Universität Berlin. On October 1, Neville Compton (middle) took over as Editor-in-Chief of Angewandte Chemie, a position held by Peter Gölitz (left) for 35 years. The Editor-in-Chief change was commented on by Alois Fürstner, chairman of the journal's Editorial Board.
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From deception to plagiarism, the range of unethical behavior in the publishing practices of scientists is broad. However, scientists should not all be tarred with the same brush. This theme is at the heart of the Editorial that also illuminates some happier events, such as the nomination of new members of the Editorial and International Advisory Boards.
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Preprints as well? There is already the Accepted Article (published directly after refereeing and author revision), the Early-View/ASAP-Version (after refereeing, editing and proofing), and the final Version of Record. The problems with preprints are discussed in this Editorial along with the undeclared resubmission of previously rejected manuscripts: publication times, color costs, and Angewandte Symposia are further topics.
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What does the Impact Factor tell us? This question is addressed by Peter Glitz in his Editorial, particularly in light of the surprising drop in the 2013 Impact Factor of Angewandte Chemie. An explanation is sought and found. Most importantly the influence of the individual variables that determine the Impact Factor needs to be understood.
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Chemical biology has been in the spotlight for numerous reasons lately. ChemBioChem has had a productive year at the forefront of these advances and is looking forward to many changes in 2014. Advances in digital publishing promise to increase the visibility and functionality of ChemBioChem for our worldwide readership.