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The Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (JCTB) had another productive year in 2011. The Journal has continued to see a steady increase in the number of manuscript submissions. The clearest evidence of the continuing relevance of JCTB's content to its readers can be seen in the ever increasing number of online downloads. The latest statistics reveal that the total number of downloads has increased by over 40% during the last year. This increase has been helped by the new Wiley web platform, Wiley Online Library that was launched in 2010 (www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jctb).
This year the Journal has published two In Focus sections: Biologics and Biosimilars, in issue 7 and Photocatalysis in issue 8. The Biologics and Biosimilars In Focus, guest edited by Stephen Mahler, brought together six papers, including three reviews in a timely section on some of the challenges facing the biologics industry. 1 The Photocatalysis section was guest edited by Russell Binions and brought together three papers from the SCI Photocatalysis 2010 meeting. 2 We are looking forward to further exciting Special Issues with papers from the 4 th International Conference on Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control brought together by Professor Christian Kennes and the 5 th European Bioremediation Conference both to be published in 2012.
Many of the editors of the Journal met up in Berlin for the annual meeting in September. Some went on to attend the 8th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and 1st European Congress of Applied Biotechnology, which were held together at the same venue. These two meetings represented an ideal place for JCTB editors from both the biotech and the chemical technology sides to meet. JCTB has a unique role in publishing papers from the interface of these two subjects, which made the journal relevant to many of the delegates attending and we received a lot of positive feedback and ideas.
Another development in 2011 was made by working with SCI on their Scholars programme. SCI sponsors several exceptional PhD students in their final two years and these scholars have demonstrated a keen interest in publishing articles about their work in JCTB. The first of these articles has been submitted and we look forward to receiving more papers in 2012.
The Journal offers its congratulations to Professor Adam Lee, who was awarded the SCI McBain Medal in 2011 for his work on surface and colloid chemistry. His mini-review on recent advances in heterogeneously catalysed aerobic selective oxidation of alcohols in JCTB has already had a lot of interest and received several citations since it was published in February. 3 We are grateful to all our authors, especially those of front matter articles, which continue to prove the most popular among our readers. We have published a number of good front matter articles this year including two excellent and highly accessed Emerging Technologies papers, one on microfluidic enzymatic reactors 4 and another on the role of butanol in the development of sustainable fuel technologies. 5 If you have an idea for a front matter article, please contact the editorial team at
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