Materials Horizons

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We have started a new journal called Materials Horizons and the vision behind the journal was to create a really high tier journal of first reports of work of really high significance that would be a society journal that would not be limited to chemistry but a more inclusive journal. Also something that I wanted to work with is the notion that the journal could have educational value as well as being a vehicle to inform people about the latest and the greatest in materials. So in that context we're going to have certain things that can help younger people and people that are perhaps not familiar with certain aspects of materials because it's so broad to learn about various aspects of materials. My view was that we have the capacity to create something which was not competitive per se with other journals but that would add to people's fundamental ability to get informed about materials, broadly defined -- we're looking for people who are working not only in chemistry but also in physics, biology, various engineering fields -- published by a society, which I think some people really like, that has as one of its primary goals education and also information. One of the things I tell my students about is when I read papers I see too many papers that have information without insight. I want this journal to be a place where people go to get insight as well as information. I think that the RSC is really on board with that vision and when you couple that with their capacity to do high quality peer review done quickly that we really have an opportunity to serve the materials community.