Joyful Years with the Journal: Balancing the Editor-Professor Life

摘要

I joined the team of ACS Sustainable Chemistry&Engineering as Associate Editor in May 2014. I recall the e-mail from Professor David Allen on April 4, 2014 proposing this idea. Although I had edited books and special issues of journals before, it was my first editorial assignment requiring daily involvement, and therefore, I was somewhat concerned about the time it may demand and concomitantly its impact on my teaching and research. My fellow Associate Editors, Professors Bala Subramaniam (University of Kansas) and Peter License (University of Nottingham) narrated their experiences and assured me that it would be a smooth transition to a teacher-researcher-editor phase in my life. It has now been well over two years-a very rewarding period of intense learning, careful mentoring, and informed decision making. Over 800 articles have come across my desk in this period. Selecting the papers we should publish, guided by the painstaking inputs of the reviewers, has been the most difficult part of my editorial avtar [a Sanskrit word meaning an incarnation, embodiment, or manifestation of a person or idea]. It was always a pleasure to receive good reviews and communicate the decision of revision or acceptance. The joy doubled when the authors returned the revision with care. I must place on record a big Thank You to all authors; the confidence they have shown in this journal has been the foundation of its success.