Acta Crystallographica Section C is making an impact

摘要

In my January 2015 editorial, I outlined the transformation that was in progress to bring Acta Crystallographica Section C to the forefront of publishing in the broad field of structural chemistry. This evolution is progressing steadily and it is pleasing to see that an increasing number of papers include a broader spectrum of science in the discussion in addition to the crystal structure determinations. To re-emphasise my earlier comments: 'Section C is the journal of choice for the rapid publication of articles that highlight interesting research facilitated by the determination, calculation or analysis of structures... Authors are encouraged to include mainstream science in their papers, thereby producing manuscripts that are substantial scientific well-rounded contributions that appeal to a broad community of readers and increase the profile of the authors.' Our efforts on emphasising the new focus of the journal continue and we recently published a special issue on Scorpionates: a golden anniversary. I am most grateful to Glenn Yap (University of Delaware, USA) and Kiyoshi Fujisawa (Ibaraki University, Japan) for putting together this excellent collection of 16 papers. We will also publish a special issue on NMR Crystallography within the next few months. The guest editors, David Bryce (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Francis Taulelle (Universite de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France), are putting the finishing touches to this substantial special issue on what has become a very important field where the marriage of traditional crystallography with the results from solid-state NMR can be very powerful for structure elucidation.