Comptes Rendus Chimie

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Editorial / Éditorial
Editorial January 2022 for Comptes Rendus Chimie

Pierre Braunstein
Since January 1, 2020, a major development has taken place for all the publications of the Académie des sciences, including Comptes Rendus Chimie, since they are now fully Open Access worldwide online, with no fee for authors nor readers ("diamond model").This has been achieved through an innovative collaboration with the Mersenne Centre for open scientific publishing, supported by the CNRS and the University of Grenoble-Alps.
Comptes Rendus Chimie publishes original research and accounts (short reviews and historic chronicles) in all areas of chemistry, including at the frontiers of chemistry with other disciplines.Notes (preliminary communications) should describe novel and important results, while full papers should provide a detailed account of new results.In all cases, the work should be of high general interest or outstanding specialized interest.Short reviews focusing on the author(s) research but placed in the context of the most recent advances in the field are also welcome.Furthermore, thematic issues, coordinated by one or many guest editor(s) provide an opportunity to take stock of an emerging and/or rapidly growing scientific area and their content always attracts much attention.
Four such thematic issues covering very diversified fields, have been published in 2020-2021.These were, in chronological order: • Variations around the Periodic Only submissions considered by the Editorial office to potentially meet the criteria given above are sent out to referees.Of course, we understand the frustrations generated by a rejection not accompanied by detailed comments from the referees, but this is the only way to proceed given the number of submissions received by the Editorial Office.We all know how essential it is for a journal to be able to rely on high-level scientific referees with an ethic that lives up to their task and we also know that these colleagues are being increasingly solicited.We sincerely thank them for their contribution to the success of Comptes Rendus Chimie and we are particularly grateful to our 20 most active referees listed in Table 1.
We are very pleased that the Académie des sciences has recently signed "The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)" which recognizes the need to improve the ways in which researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.Although the Journal Impact Factor was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase and not as a measure of the scientific quality of research  in an article, we know that authors remain interested in its evolution, either for a given journal or within a given field of research.The 2-year impact factor of Comptes Rendus Chimie rose from 2.223 in 2019 to 3.117 in 2020.
We are also pleased to share with you that the quality and diversity of the contributions published in Comptes Rendus Chimie have attracted much international awareness, with most views originating from the USA, France, India and China.The 20 most viewed and downloaded articles in 2021 are listed in Tables 2 and 3, respectively.
The most cited articles in 2020-2021 are listed in Table 4.
We wish to congratulate our authors for their achievements and we are proud to increase the visibility of their work thanks to a fully Open Access worldwide journal!
We are most grateful to our authors, guest editors and referees because they are responsible for the success of this journal and its increasing visibility.

Table 1 .
Our 20 most active referees in 2020 continuing success of Comptes Rendus Chimie depends on you!We welcome all suggestions you may have to help us meet your expectations!

Table 2 .
The 20 most viewed articles in 2021

Table 4 .
(continued) Evaluation of the influence of olive mill waste on soils: the case study of disposal areas in Crete, Greece Maria K. Doula; Antonis Papadopoulos; Chronis Kolovos; Olga Lamnatou; Antonis A. Zorpas Effect of reaction conditions on the activity of novel carbon nanofiber-based Cu/ZrO 2 catalysts for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol Israf Ud Din; Maizatul S. Shaharun; A. Naeem; Mshari A. Alotaibi; Abdulrahman I. Alharthi; Qazi Nasir Looking forward to receiving outstanding contributions from you, I wish you all a happy and most successful year 2022 with exciting science!