The State of the Journal of Materials Research
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The State of the Journal of Materials Research The Journal of Materials Research (JMR) is
completing a banner year. Our subscriptions have increased, especially library subscriptions by more than 3%. Manuscript submissions have increased by 17%. Processing of more than half of our papers is completed in under four months. More than half of our papers are from countries other than the United States. Pacific Rim submissions have increased substantially. Citation criteria, especially number of citations and mean citation life, place the Journal at or near the top for broadly based archival journals. In short, the Journal is doing very well and on a good vector using conventional metrics. However, much more importantly, the Journal is, I believe, extremely healthy in its human aspects and in its scientific directions. Seven distinguished Principal Editors have elected to retire. The Journal and the materials community owe them a great debt for their contribution to our field through JMR service. They are Michael Aziz, Harvard University; Pat Gallagher, Ohio State University; Michio Inagaki, Hokkaido University, Japan; Harry Leamy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Shiushichi Kimura,
Yamanashi University, Japan; Ken Sandhage, Ohio State University; and Karl Sieradzki, Arizona State University. We are delighted to have induced 11 internationally distinguished materials scientists to join JMR in 1997: Sunggi Baik, Pohang University, Korea; Salvatore Coffa, CNR-IMETEM, Italy; Thomas Ebbeson, ISIS, France; Sossina Haile, California Institute of Technology; Sungho Jin, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies; Adrian Mann, Johns Hopkins University; Mike Nastasi, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Bob Snyder, Ohio State University; Mototsugu Sakai, Toyohashi University, Japan; Stuart Solin, NEC; and Eiichi Yasuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. JMR now has two Communications Editors (Robert Frankenthal, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies and Robert Snyder, Ohio State University) and beginning in January 1998 JMR will publish communications on the World Wide Web prior to print publication. This will make JMR communications dissemination among the most rapid of any archival journal. An exciting group of subjects have been covered or will be covered in Focus Issues: November 1997 "High-Temperature
Superconducting Materials—The First Ten Years," guest edited by Julia Phillips, Koichi Kugimiya, Shoji Tanaka, and Yuh Shiohara; January 1998 "Materials and the Environment: Towards Sustainable Development," guest edited by Donald Sadoway; April 1998 "Soft Solution Processing," guest edited by Yasumichi Matsumoto; and September 1998 "Carbon Nanotubes," guest edited by Mildred Dresselhaus. Much more could be said about JMR. Speaking personally, I find it a privilege as Editor-in-Chief to be associated with our most outstanding group of Editors. I also greatly value the dedication and professionalism of our Editorial Staff of Helen Miller, Peggy Costello, and Linda Baker. The Journal's excellence rests on their contributi
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