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EDITORIAL 2020: Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

2019; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 139; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s10973-019-09091-x

1588-2926

Imre Miklós Szilágyi, Alfréd Kállay-Menyhárd, Sophie Korda,

thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses

2019 was an exciting year in the life of our Journal and we would like to thank all of you for your contributions as Authors, Reviewers, Consultants as well as Associate, Honorary, and Guest Editors.We are grateful to you, because your high-quality work is the guarantee for the success of our Journal.It is a great news that the impact factor for 2019 was 2.471, which is ca.12% increase compared to the previous year.Although the impact factor for 2018 was already a new record for the Journal, the impact factor for 2019 has surpassed it even considerably more.The value of this impact factor increase is even higher, taking into account that the number of papers published is growing year by year.Several special issues were published in 2019.We continued our long-term tradition and selected papers presented at international conferences (ICHMT2017, CTAS2017, ICTAES2018, ESTAC12, AICAT2018, XICBRATEC, NATAS2018, CCTA13) were published in JTAC in 2019.As a novelty, a topical special issue on nanofluids (Nanofluid Today) appeared, which was made open access for 2 months, as a courtesy of SpringerNature.This special issue was very popular with nearly 300 papers submitted and more than 100 papers published.The classification of the manuscripts submitted to our Journal is presented in Fig. 1.We are very happy that the number of manuscript submitted in 2019 is expected to be around 3100 pieces.This is a huge number, and it means ca.20% increase, compared to 2018.This shows that the journal is becoming even more and more popular in the field of thermal analysis and calorimetry, and thermal science in general.This steep increase, however, is accompanied by new challenges for the future.The most difficult task will be the significant improvement in the average progress time of the submitted manuscripts, but our team is committed to solve this issue in the forthcoming years.2019 was a very special year; it was the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry.We celebrated it with a conference in Budapest, Hungary, where JTAC was founded and where also the first commercial simultaneous TG/DTA device of the world, the famous Derivatograph, was developed.This was the second edition of our international conference series on thermal analysis and calorimetry, the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Conference (JTACC).During the five decades of publishing, a global community formed around JTAC, and with this conference we wished to create an opportunity, where our editorial board, authors, reviewers, supporters, and all those who were interested in this wonderful field could meet personally.Accordingly, the 2nd Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Conference and 7th V4 (Joint Czech-Hungarian-Polish-Slovakian) Thermoanalytical Conference JTACC+V4 were held in Budapest, Hungary, June 18-21, 2019.Beside tradition, innovation was also present, e.g.electronic poster sessions, conference mobile application, online question and answer part after lectures using sli.do,online participant map, etc.At the conference, we had a special workshop, where we could plan the future of JTAC together with you.The Journal's 50th birthday was also celebrated with a festive gala dinner at the Royal Palace of Gödöllő, featured with JTAC birthday cake, JTAC quiz, Hungarian folkdance show with dance teaching afterwards, and party.The conference was a large success, and there were 30% more registered (530) participants compared to JTACC 2017, from which around 350 people were on site, making JTACC-V4 2019 one of the largest thermal analysis conferences of the recent decades.