How Does ChemPubSoc Europe Work?
ChemPubSoc Europe (CPSE) is an association of 16 European chemical societies, each of which has nominated one representative; the group of representatives meets once a year at their Owners Meeting, always in a different host country. Listed in Table 1 are the member societies and their current representatives. With its publishing partner, Wiley-VCH, CPSE publishes 11 journals and one online magazine, all listed in Table 2, together with the Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board chairpersons. On the publisher’s side, the collaboration is led by Dr. Eva Wille, and Managing Editor Dr. Karen Hindson. The Newsletter that you are reading is written and edited by a team at Wiley-VCH together with the Presidents of CPSE. All involved in publishing for CPSE work in a lean and pragmatic way. This is sometimes challenging in itself, as there are 16 societies and a dozen publications to be taken care of in a very competitive global environment, which currently faces many changes in publishing, such as the move from print to online and open access.
For CPSE, the year begins with the “Presidents Meeting”. It reviews the previous calendar year for which the Editorials of the individual journals provide ample information. In 2014 the 7th “Presidents Meeting” took place in Paris at the end of January, and in June there will be the 19th meeting of all representatives in Weinheim (not far from Frankfurt) where the publishers Wiley-VCH and all editorial offices are located.
Not surprisingly, the new journals ChemElectroChem, ChemPlusChem, and ChemistryOpen, the first gold open access journal published by chemical societies, were looked at very closely. But also numbers of submitted and published articles, rejection rates, usage numbers, publication times, uptake of open access for all journals were presented and discussed. In addition, information about royalties is of course of great interest and importance for the societies as they allow them to finance established and special programs for their members. Royalties are paid to the member societies based primarily on the journals’ (subscription) revenues and the number of articles coming from the member societies’ countries. Plans for the “Owners Meeting” and for the future formed the other part of the packed agenda.
The 2013 statistics showed healthy trends, demonstrating that the motto “quality first” is a sound basis for the journals’ development. Publication times could be further reduced, while keeping the high level personal service for authors and referees. Even more encouraging had been the development of the citation numbers for all journals, including the Impact Factors and the Immediacy Indexes. And ChemView.org, CPSE’s e-zine, is seen as trendsetting, a much-copied modern way of delivering inspiring chemical content.
Table 1. Representatives of ChemPubSoc Europe societies.
|
Society Name |
Country |
Representative |
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Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker (GÖCH) |
Austria |
Günter Grampp |
|
Société Royale de Chimie (SRC) and the Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging (KVCV) |
Belgium |
Benoît Champagne |
|
Czech Chemical Society (CCS) |
Czech Republic |
Pavel Drasar |
|
Société Chimique de France (SCF) |
France |
Christian Amatore* |
|
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) |
Germany |
Wolfram Koch* |
|
Association of Greek Chemists (EEX) |
Greece |
Athanasios Papadopoulos |
|
Hungarian Chemical Society (MKE) |
Hungary |
Livia Simon Sarkadi |
|
Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) |
Italy |
Francesco de Angelis* |
|
Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV) |
the Netherlands |
Lene Hviid |
|
Polish Chemical Society (PTChem) |
Poland |
Piotr Balczewski |
|
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (SPQ) |
Portugal |
Maria José Calhorda |
|
Slovak Chemical Society (SCHS) |
Slovakia |
Dušan Velič |
|
Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) |
Spain |
Luis A. Oro* |
|
The Swedish Chemical Society (SK) |
Sweden |
Per-Ola Norrby |
|
Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft (SCG) |
Switzerland |
Helma Wennemers |
*Presidents of ChemPubSoc Europe; 05.05.2014
Table 2. Editors and Editorial Board Chairperson(s) of ChemPubSoc Europe titles.
|
Title |
Editor |
Chair Editorial Board |
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ChemBioChem |
Peter Gölitz |
Thomas Carell, Donald Hilvert, Barbara Imperiali |
|
ChemCatChem |
Michael Rowan |
Uwe Bornscheuer, Luis Oro, Bert Weckhuysen |
|
ChemElectroChem |
Greta Heydenrych |
Bing-Wie Mao, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Jean-Marie Tarascon |
|
Chemistry – A European Journal |
Neville Compton |
Jan-Erling Bäckvall |
|
ChemistryOpen |
Natalia Ortúzar, Karen Hindson, Haymo Ross |
Ramón Martinez-Máñez, |
|
ChemViews (Magazine of ChemPubSoc Europe) |
Vera Köster |
|
|
ChemMedChem |
Natalia Ortúzar |
Rainer Metternich, Giorgio Tarzia |
|
ChemPhysChem |
Greta Heydenrych |
Christian Amatore, Michael Grätzel, Michael Orrit |
|
ChemPlusChem |
Neville Compton, Marisa Spiniello |
Matthias Driess, Michal Hocek, Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk |
|
ChemSusChem |
Guido Kemeling |
Matthias Beller, Gabriele Centi, Licheng Sun |
|
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry |
Karen Hindson |
Bas de Bruin |
|
European Journal of Organic Chemistry |
Haymo Ross |
Cesare Gennari |
|
Associated Journals |
Editor |
Chair Editorial Board |
|
Angewandte Chemie |
Peter Gölitz |
Alois Fürstner |
|
Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry |
Richard Threlfall |
Sung Ho Kang, Keiji Maruoka, Deqing Zhang |
|
Chemistry – An Asian Journal |
Theresa Kueckmann |
Ryoji Noyori |
05.05.2014