Small Adjustments

As we embark on 2024, Small Structures enters its 5th volume of publication. The journal has evolved and grown since its launch, in no small part due to the dedicated efforts of our experienced, professional, in-house editorial team supported by our excellent advisory board members, who are leading experts in their field. We are indebted to our reviewers who have embraced our new journal and give of their time to evaluate the submitted work. Our board members and reviewers have been instrumental in setting a high standard of quality for articles published and we encourage reviewers and authors alike to keep this in mind when evaluating or submitting to Small Structures going forward. This past year saw the departure of Dr. Jovia Jiang as Editor-in-Chief of Small Structures. Jovia has a new focus within Wiley and we wish her all the best with her new endeavours. Having joined Wiley over 18 years ago, I am pleased to have recently taken on the Editor-in-Chief role of this journal in addition to the sister journal Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, one of the hybrid journals in our portfolio. In my time at Wiley, I have worked on some of our best known titles, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and Small and have been fortunate to interact with and meet many of the authors that publish with us. After receiving my Ph.D. in Dublin City University, Ireland, I carried out postdoctoral research in Università di Roma “La Sapienza“, Italy and at The Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden. My colleagues Dr. Harry Pinfold, who has already worked on the journal for some time and a new colleague to the team, Dr. Aron Urbatsch will also be handling your submissions. Each editor brings broad and varied experience to the table in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Together with a team of administration and production colleagues, we will work together to provide you with the best possible service. One of the most significant changes this past year has being the conversion to fully open access (OA) publication. The authors of Small Structures have embraced this change, perhaps in part, due to the benefits of publishing OA – work is available to read and share worldwide – with articles being viewed, on average, nearly four times more than subscription articles and subsequently being cited nearly twice as much. This has been reflected in the most recent impact factor of 15.9, released in June by Clarivate Analytics. When we look at the highest cited articles published in 2021 and 2022, we see the breath of topics covered by Small Structures, which appeals to our broad readership (see Table 1). Inside-and-Out Semiconductor Engineering for CO2 Photoreduction: From Recent Advances to New Trends pH-buffer contained electrolyte for self-adjusted cathode-free Zn-MnO2 batteries with coexistence of dual-mechanisms Genetic Dielectric Genes inside Two-Dimensional Carbon-Based Materials with Tunable Electromagnetic Function at Elevated Temperature Recent Advances in One-dimensional Electrospun Nanocatalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting Two-dimensional (2D) MXene Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Mechanism, and Multifunctional Applications in Microwave Absorption Micro-nanostructured design of dendrite-free zinc anodes and their applications in aqueous zinc-based rechargeable batteries Current Progress in Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalysis It has to be said that there is confusion among at least some members of the scientific community with regard to the payment of the Article Publication Charges, most often referred to simply as APCs. Articles accepted for publication in Small Structures are presently subject to an APC of $3,250 USD/£2,450 GBP/€2,750 EUR. Wiley, being committed to a future where OA becomes more and more the choice for dissemination of research work, has been instrumental in recent years, implementing transformational agreements, often referred to simply as TA agreements. These agreements allow researchers at participating institutions unlimited read access to a publisher's portfolio of journals, as well as funding to cover APCs when choosing to publish OA. Please refer to the Wiley Author Services webpage Institutional Payments | Wiley to inform yourself of OA deals presently in place. Automatic APC waivers and discounts will be given to authors from countries on the Waivers and Discounts List. Authors should submit a waiver or discount request during the submission of their article. Another change to the journal this year was the rearrangement of our Editorial Advisory Board. We acknowledge the support from all of our editorial board members. We sincerely thank the members who have left the board for their contributions to the journal since launch: Professors Bahareh Behkam (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA), Manish Chhowalla (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz (DTU Health Tech, Lyngby, Denmark), Jinbiao Ma (Fudan University, Shanghai, China), Qiang Peng (Sichuan University, Chengdu, China), Milica Radisic (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), Yusuke Yamauchi (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), Jianhua (Joshua) Yang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA), Xiaowei Zhan (Peking University, Beijing, China), Jian Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China), and Fangfang Zhou (Soochow University, Suzhou, China). And we extend a warm welcome to the new members of the board: Professors Adrian Keller (Universität Paderborn, Germany), Pooi See Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Shengzhong Liu (Shaanxi Normal Unviersity, Xi’An, China), Barry P. Rand (Princeton University, Princeton, USA), Lianzhou Wang (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), Yan Yu (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China), Tianyou Zhai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Liangfang Zhang (University of California San Diego, USA), Qichun Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), and Tierui Zhang (Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, Beijing, China). These new board members bring a wealth of expertise in the areas of biomaterials, electronics, energy conversion/storage, electro/photocatalysis nanomedicine, therapeutics, polymers, and much more. We are looking forward to collaborating with all of the Small Structures advisory board members in the coming years. In closing, I would like to thank you for your contributions to Small Structures, be it in the capacity of one of our authors, peer reviewers or simply interested reader. We look forward to the coming year with enthusiasm as we disseminate top-class research in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our team will strive to provide you with a rigorous and fair peer-review process, upholding the highest ethical standards, and efficient publication of your work. Editor-in-Chief

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