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Polymer Chemistry inaugural impact factor 5.32!

02 Jul 2012

I am delighted to announce that Polymer Chemistry’s inaugural impact factor is 5.32! This is a fantastic achievement for the journal and I would like to thank our Editorial and Advisory Board members and our authors, referees and readers.

Polymer Chemistry is now firmly established as a leading journal in the field, also demonstrated by its #1 immediacy index of all original research journals in the Polymer Science category of the 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®.

 The immediacy index is a measure of how quickly articles are cited, the 2011 immedicay index is an average of how many citations articles published in 2011 received during the year they were published.

So, why not submit your next high impact article to Polymer Chemistry and enjoy the benefits of being an RSC author.

Read more about the 2011 Impact Factors from across RSC Publishing on the RSC Publishing Blog!

 

 

 

Data based on 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®, (Thomson Reuters, 2012)

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New Polymer Chemistry web writer

29 Mar 2011

I am delighted to announce that Julien Nicolas will be joining us as a web writer for the Polymer Chemistry blog.

Julien is a CNRS researcher in the group of Prof. Patrick Couvreur, University Paris-Sud (France), where his current research activities are focused on the controlled/living radical polymerization and on the synthesis of novel (bio)polymers and nanoparticles for drug delivery purposes. He was recently featured as Polymer Chemistry Author of the week in which he discusses his latest paper in the journal.

Make sure you don’t miss any of Julien’s posts by signing up to our RSS feeds!

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Merry Christmas from Polymer Chemistry!

24 Dec 2010

We would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! The Editorial office will be closed from 24th December 2010 and will re-open on January 4th 2011.

We’re looking forward to 2011, which will see more high quality articles from top international polymer chemists, some great themed issues, and much more! Don’t miss out – sign up to our blog’s RSS feed!

from the Polymer Chemistry Editorial team

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New Polymer Chemistry web writer

08 Dec 2010

I would like to introduce our new web writer, Remzi Becer (University of Warwick, UK). Remzi will be contributing articles to the Polymer Chemistry blog on the latest news  of interest to the polymer chemistry community.   

Remzi Becer

 Remzi was born in 1980 in Izmir, Turkey. He received his BSc degree in 2003 at the Chemistry Department of the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). In 2005, he received his MSc degree in Polymer Science and Technology at the ITU. He completed his PhD study titled as  Controlling Polymer Architectures  in 2009 under the supervision of Ulrich S. Schubert at the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany). Recently, he is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). His research interests include high-throughput experimentation, stimuli-responsive polymers, and synthesis of glycopolymer and their interactions with lectins. 

Look out for Remzi’s posts on the Polymer Chemistry blog! To make sure you don’t miss any Polymer Chemistry news sign up to the blog’s RSS feed.

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Zing Polymer Chemistry conference

12 Oct 2010

I will be attending the Zing Polymer Chemistry conference in November. The line-up of speakers looks excellent and the location idyllic! The conference, chaired by Heather Maynard and our Associate Editor Eva Harth, starts on Friday 19th November and ends the following Monday.

Let me know if you are also attending!

Liz Davies
Managing Editor, Polymer Chemistry

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Meet our new Editorial Board member

19 Aug 2010

We welcome Professor Brent Sumerlin to the Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board.

Professor Brent S. Sumerlin graduated with a B.S. from North Carolina State University (1998) and obtained a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi (2003) under the direction of Prof. Charles L. McCormick. After serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (2003-2005), he joined the Department of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas, USA) as an assistant professor in 2005 and was promoted to associate professor in 2009. Professor Sumerlin has received several awards, including an Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Award (2007), an NSF CAREER Award (2009), an ACS Leadership Development Award (2010), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2010). Current research in his group involves the synthesis of functional macromolecules, responsive polymer systems, polymer-protein bioconjugates, and dynamic covalent macromolecular assemblies.

Read Professor Sumerlin’s article in Polymer Chemistry:

Conjugation of RAFT-generated polymers to proteins by two consecutive thiol–ene reactions
Ming Li, Priyadarsi De, Hongmei Li and Brent S. Sumerlin
Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 854-859

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Find Polymer Chemistry on Facebook and Twitter!

13 Aug 2010

Keep up-to-date with all the latest news from Polymer Chemistry!

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Polymer Chemistry launch

13 Aug 2010

We celebrated Polymer Chemistry’s official launch event last month, at Macro2010 in Glasgow, UK. During a poster session sponsored by Polymer Chemistry, Editor-in-Chief, Professor David Haddleton, gave a speech introducing the journal.

Wine and cake were then available for the delegates to enjoy.

We would like to thank our authors, referees and readers for making the first few issues so fantastic, and we look forward to continuing the success in the future!

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Themed Issue on Polymer Bioconjugates: Call for Papers

11 Aug 2010

We are delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue on Polymer Bioconjugates to be published in 2011. The guest editors of the issue will be Professor Jan van Hest (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Professor Brent Sumerlin (Southern Methodist University, USA) and it is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

Polymer Chemistry is a new peer-reviewed journal encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas. The journal will publish themed issues on important emerging topics and it now seems particularly timely to publish a focused set of articles covering Polymer Bioconjugates. The key aim is to highlight the most important areas and directions in this field within a high quality and high impact issue.

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 5th January 2011.

Submissions, either communications or full papers, should be high-quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research, containing important new insight. All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Polymer Chemistry.

Manuscripts can be submitted using our online submission service. Please indicate on you submission letter that your manuscript is submitted in response to the call for papers for the Polymer Bioconjugates themed issue.

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