期刊名称：CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
 CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA is an international journal devoted to the publication of papers from all fields of chemistry. Four issues are published annually.
CCA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author's reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, Essays and Data bank contributions. In the appendix, the Journal publishes Letters to the Editor, book reviews, obituaries and Croatian Chemical Society news.
CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA is supported by the
Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia
and to some extent the funds are provided by subscriptions and advertisements.
CROATICA CHEMICA Acta is referred to in Chemical Abstracts, Science Citation Index, Current Contents (Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences), Cambridge Structural Database System (CSD System), Chemical Titles
Instructions to Authors
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
GENERAL INFORMATION
Croatica Chemica Acta is an international journal devoted
to the publication of papers of general interest
from all fields of chemistry.
Four issues are published annually.
Contributions should be written in good English; an abstract
(translated) in Croatian is added.
Categories of Contributions
CCA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary
communications, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference
papers, Essays, and Data bank contributions.
In the appendix, the Journal publishes Letters to the
Editor, book reviews, obituaries and the Croatian
Chemical Society news.
Original scientific papers report unpublished results of
original research. The papers have to contain all the
necessary information to enable reproducibility of
the described work.
Notes report unpublished results of short, but completed,
original research or describe original laboratory
techniques (methods, apparatus, etc.). Notes should
not exceed 1000 words.
Preliminary communications report unpublished preliminary
results of original research that require prompt
publication.
Reviews are concise and critical surveys of a specific research
field, providing the reader with up-to-date information
on current developments and trends. As a
rule, reviews are written upon invitation from the
Editor. Exceptionally, critical surveys of the authors'
own research fields are also acceptable. In such
cases, this should be mentioned in a separate note.
Feature articles are concise and critical reviews of a
current topic, pointing to trends and controversies in
the field. They should be understandable to non-specialists.
Feature articles are written upon invitation
from the Editorial Board and should not exceed 20
typewritten pages.
Conference papers should be reported at a congress,
symposium or summer school prior to submission to
the Journal. Conference papers are submitted by the
Organizing Committee.
Essays report curricula vitae of the important Croatian
chemists and accounts of the history of chemistry.
Data bank contributions contain new chemical and physical
data in order to make them available for subsequent
scientific interpretation and various practical
uses.
Letters to the Editor are a medium for expression of scientific
opinions or exchange of different views concerning
the material published in CCA.
Reviewing of Manuscripts
All contributions are evaluated according to the criteria
of originality and quality of their scientific content.
Only papers with favourable reports of referees are
accepted for publication.
To speed up the reviewing process, the authors should
suggest at least three or four persons competent to
review their manuscripts. Full address, including
e-mail, of each potential reviewer should be given.
Such suggestions will be considered but not necessarily
followed.
Style and Language
All contributions should be written in a style that addresses
a wider audience than papers in more specialized
journals. For reasons of economy, brevity of
paper presentation is essential.
Standard English or American spelling can be used, but
consistency should be maintained throughout a paper.
Manuscripts with grammar or vocabulary deficiencies
are disadvantaged during the scientific review
process and, even if accepted, may be returned
to the author to be rewritten in idiomatic
English.
Title
The paper should have a concise, clear title directed at
the general reader. The title should be brief, preferably
12 words or less; readers rarely read and absorb
long titles. Use of non-standard abbreviations, symbols
and formulae in the title is discouraged.
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Graphic Contents Entry
Starting with the first issue in 2003, CCA features a Table
of Contents that contains a graphic presentation
for each entry, in addition to the title and author list.
The graphical abstract should highlight the essence
of chemistry described in the article in such a way
as to encourage further perusal of the article.
Graphics used in the Contents entry need not necessarily
appear in the article itself.
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND PUBLICATION
POLICY
The Journal expects the Editors, reviewers and authors
to adhere to the well-known standards of professional
ethics.
Authors are responsible for the factual accuracy of their
contributions. Submission of the paper commits the
author not to submit the same material elsewhere.
Reviewers should act promptly. If certain circumstances
preclude prompt attention to the manuscript at the time
it is received, the unreceived manuscript should be
returned immediately to the Editor or the reviewer
should contact the Editor for possible delay of the
report submission date.
The Editor accepts full responsibility for his decisions on
the manuscripts. Contributions may be rejected without
review if considered inappropriate for the Journal.
ADMINISTRATION
All manuscripts received for consideration will be acknowledged
by the Editorial Office. The manuscript will
be given a reference number, which the authors are
asked to quote in all subsequent correspondence.
Corresponding authors should notify the Editorial Office
that all coauthors have given their approval for paper
publication.
Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to the address
given at the end of these Instructions. Guidelines for
electronic files preparation in the CCA style are given
in the Preparation of Manuscripts.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Introductory Notes
Rapid publication is aided by careful preparation of text
and illustrations. Special attention is drawn to the use
of SI units and associated conventions, current IUPAC
nomenclature and symbolism and standard methods
of literature citation.
The quality of illustrations in the Journal depends on the
quality of the original artwork provided by the author.
The correct lettering-size to graphic-width ratio
should be chosen. Single column illustrations are
preferred.
Minimum resolution of 300 dpi for black and white or
color photography and 600 dpi for black and white or
color line art is mandatory. Lettering and lines should
be of uniform density and the lines unbroken.
If English is not the author's native language, the manuscript
should be corrected by a language specialist,
prior to submission.
Organization of Material
Manuscripts should be assembled as follows: title page,
abstract, keywords, introduction, experimental section,
results and discussion, conclusions (optional),
acknowledgements, references, legends, tables, illustrations
(figures, schemes) and graphical abstract.
Authors from Croatia should add an abstract in Croatian.
As a rule, Original scientific papers should be subdivided
into Introduction, Experimental section, Results and
Discussion. Subdivision of other papers may deviate
from this rule.
The research aim and a concise description of background
information, directly connected to the paper, should
be given in the Introduction.
Experimental section should describe materials, tools and
methods in sufficient detail to enable experienced persons
to repeat them. Well-known procedures need not
be described in detail but referred to by references.
The reporting and interpretation of experimental and computational
results must be clear and concise. It is usual
for the Results to be presented first, followed by a
Discussion of their significance. Results and Discussion
may be combined or kept separate. This section
should not be cluttered with technical details.
The addition of a Conclusion section at the end of the
paper, which briefly summarizes the principal conclusions
of the work, is recommended.
Notes on the Preparation of Manuscripts
1. Manuscripts should be submitted in the electronic
version. Pages and appendices must be numbered.
2. The manuscript (in general) must contain, each on a
separate page, the title page, abstract in English, (abstract
in Croatian), graphical abstract, list of references,
tables (each table separately), illustrations (each
separately), and legends to illustrations (all on the
same page).
3. The title page must contain: the title of the paper,
name(s) of the author(s) (first name spelt out), full
mailing addresses of all authors, running title (not
more than 50 characters including spaces), keywords
(up to 6), the phone and fax numbers and the e-mail
address of the author to whom correspondence should
be sent.
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4. The Abstract should be written in the impersonal
form and must not exceed 150 words. The aim of
the work, essential results and conclusions must be
given. The Croatian abstract must be a translation of
the English abstract. For authors outside Croatia, the
Editorial Board will translate the English abstract
into Croatian.
5. IUPAC recommendations should be followed. Detailed
instructions are given in relevant IUPAC publications:
Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry,
Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1992; A
Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds,
Blackwell, Oxford 1993; Quantities, Units
and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, Blackwell Scientific
Publications, Oxford, 1993.
6. SI units (SI, Syst¨¨me Internationale d'Unit¨¦s) should
be used. Where there are special reasons for making
an exception to this rule, it is recommended to define
the units used in terms of SI units.
In tabulating the numerical values of physical quantities,
or labeling the axes of graphs, the quotient of a
physical quantity and a unit should be used in such a
form that the values to be tabulated are pure numbers.
Examples: T/K or Temperature/K; 103(T/K)¨C1; ln(p/kPa);
(Im/mmol kg¨C1)1/2.
Percents and per mills, although not being units in
the same sense as the units of dimensioned quantities,
can be treated as such. Unit symbols should never be
modified (for instance: w/w %, vol.%, mol.%) but the
quantity measured has to be named, e.g. mass
fraction, w = 95 %; amount (mole) fraction, x = 20 %.
7. Decimal numbers must have decimal points, not
decimal commas (except in the Croatian abstract).
8. Latin words should be italicized, as for example: et
al., i.e., in vivo, ibid.
9. Double subscripts and superscripts should be avoided
whenever possible. For example: LNO3
is better written
as L(NO3) and exp (m/RT) is better than em/RT or e
m
RT .
10. The data for new compounds should be quoted as follows:
yield, melting (boiling) point, UV absorption, IR
absorption, NMR spectra, mass spectrum and elemental
analysis, e.g. 5 g (53 %); m.p. 75¨C76 ¡ãC; UV(EtOH)
lmax/nm: 228 and 262 (log e/dm3 mol¨C1cm¨C1: 4.23 and
3.92; IR(KBr) nmax/cm¨C1: 1650 (CO), 1620 (C=N);
1H NMR (CDCl3) d/ppm: 2.30 (s, 3H, Me), 4.51 (d,
1H, J1,2 = 3.2 Hz, H-3); 13C NMR (CDCl3) d/ppm:
160 (C-5), 120 (C-2); MS m/z: 264 (M+, 100 %) and
246 (M+-18).
Anal. Calcd. for C18H13N3O5S (Mr = 383.38): C
56.39, H 3.42, N 10.96, O 20.87, S 8.36 %; found: C
56.31, H 3.62, N 10.76, O 20.60, S 8.19 %.
When describing more than 4 or 5 compounds, the
data are best presented as a table.
11. Illustrations (figures, graphs, structural formulae of
compounds) should be suitable for direct reproduction
or the size of lettering should enable reduction
to the one- (preferred) or two-column format.
Color should be used if essential for clarity of communication.
12. Tables must have brief titles that describe their contents.
Details should be put in footnotes, not in the
title.
Tables should be sized to conform to the single and
double column width.
13. Tables and illustrations should be intelligible without
reference to the text, and their position in the
text should be indicated. Tables should be numbered
with Roman and illustrations with Arabic numerals.
14. Large tables and computer programs will not be
printed. They can be deposited at the Editorial Office
only if deposition into the relevant database is
not possible. Such material may be included as Supplement
in the pdf version of the article. This should
be mentioned in the manuscript.
15. Prior to submitting the manuscript reporting the results
of crystal structure determination(s), the authors
should deposit the crystallographic data with the
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (organic
and metal-organic structures) or with the Fachinformationszentrum
Karlsruhe (inorganic structures).
The addresses are:
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 12, Union
Road, Cambridge CB2 1EZ, UK; e-mail: deposit@
ccdc.cam.ac.uk. Guidance for deposition can be
obtained from: www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/conts/depositing.
html
Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ), D-76344
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; e-mail: crysdata@
fiz-karlsruhe.de; www: http://crystal.fiz-karlsruhe.
de
Deposition number should be submitted together
with the manuscript and an appropriate note should
be put in the paper.
16. Bibliographic references in the text should be made
by the use of numerical superscripts, for example:
...was studied.14,15 References should be numbered
in the order in which they are cited in the text.
References themselves should be given at the end of
the paper using ordinal numbers only (no brackets,
etc.).
17. Journals should be cited as follows: name(s) of the
author(s), journal abbreviation (italic), volume number
(bold), year of issue (in parentheses), page numbers
(first and last).
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For example:
N. Colocci and P. B. Dervan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116
(1994) 785¨C786.
P. J. Garegg, T. Regberg, J. Stawinski, and R. Strömberg,
J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 (1987) 1269¨C
1273.
Journal abbreviations should be those defined in Chemical
Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI).
18. Books should be cited as shown in the following examples:
M. J. S. Dewar, The Molecular Orbital Theory of Organic
Chemistry, McGraw Hill, New York, 1969, p.
442.
G. Pilcher, Thermochemistry of Chemical Compounds,
in: H. A. Skinner (Ed.), Thermochemistry and Thermodynamics,
Physical Chemistry Series One, Vol. 10,
MTP, International Review of Science, Butterworths,
London, 1972, pp. 62¨C66.
19. Names of all authors should be given in the list of
references; the abbreviation et al. may be used in the
text only.
Preparation of Electronic Files
The preferred text formats are RTF and MS-Word.
ChiWriter will not be accepted.
If Tex / LaTex is used, the text should be exported to ASCII
and this file submitted together with the hardcopy and
Tex format of the whole material.
The following formats of computer generated graphics
should be used: CDR, WMF, EPS, TIF, AI, press
optimized PDF. For large image files, the use of ZIP
or ARJ file compressing programs is recommended.
The version of the program used should be stated.
All of the text and tabular material (if any) should be in a
single file with the complete text first, followed by
the tabular material. If tabular material is present, the
column alignment should have been obtained with either
the word-processing program (column utility) or
tabs or spaces, but not with a mixture thereof. Do not
integrate any graphic material into this text file.
Graphics should be given separately, each in its original
format. If the original graphic format is not one of
the above specified ones, it should be exported into
one of the recommended formats.
When preparing the manuscript text, use a simple, full-width
format with no page-formatting other than margin definitions.
Text must be unjustified. Do not insert spaces
before punctuation.
Carefully proofread the final copy for consistent notation
and correct spelling.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts should be submitted in screen optimized pdf
version by e-mail. After the manuscript is accepted
for publication, the authors should supply the final
material both in screen optimized pdf and in the text
and graphic formats recommended in the preceding
section.
Page Proofs and Reprints
Proofs in pdf will be sent by e-mail to the authors for
corrections. Only errors following from the production
process should be corrected; no additional
changes to the text should be made.
The proofs should be returned within 48 hours to the address
given at the end of these Instructions.
Each article in pdf will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding
author. Paper reprints may be obtained by
completing the ordering form sent to the authors together
with the proofs.
IMPORTANT NOTE
The latest version of Instructions to Authors as well as
pdf versions of all papers published in CCA since
1998 can be found on the website of Croatica Chemica
Acta.
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Editorial Board
Editorial Board of CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA
Editor-in-Chief: Nikola Kallay
Editors: Ljerka Brečević, Predrag Novak
Assistant Editors: Bono Lučić (Electronic version), Greta Prajdić (Printed version)
Technical Editors: Miroslav Bajić, Ljerka Brečević, Greta Prajdić
Editorial Assistant: Nada Trajkov
Members:
Darko Babic, Goran Baranović, Mladen Biruš, MarinaCindrić, Vlasta Drvenkar, Milivoj Lovrić, Mirjana Metikoš, Kata Mlinaric-Majerski, Predrag Novak, Marija Šindler-Kulyk, Vladislav Tomišić, Hrvoj Vančik, Zorica Veksli, Ivana Weygand-Durašević, Drazen Vikić-Topić and Tomislav Živković
Honorary Editor: Jean-Marie Lehn (France)
Advisory Board of CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA
F. H. Allen (UK)
A. M. Bond (Australia)
M. V. Diudea (Romania)
C. Giacovazzo (Italy)
R. Gleiter, M. Klessinger, A. de Meijere, Ch. R¨¹cker, A. Simon (Germany)
D. Grdenić, B. Kamenar, D. Keglević, Vl. Simeon, D. Sunko, N. Trinajstić (Croatia)
D. Hadži, J. Kobe, B. Stanovnik, M. Tišler (Slovenia)
D. J. Klein, E. Matijević, J. R. Sabin, J. Wang (USA)
V. Kvasnička (Slovakia)
I. Lukovits and J. Mink (Hungary)
The 70th Anniversary of
CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA
1927 - 1997
Written after Croat. Chem. Acta 70 (1997) I-IV.
The first issue of Croatica Chemica Acta (Croat. Chem. Acta) appeared under the name
Arhiv za hemiju i farmaciju (Archive for Chemistry and Pharmacy)
in Zagreb on April 1, 1927.
It was published by the Yugoslav Chemical Society as a quarterly chemical journal. The Yugoslav Chemical Society was founded in Zagreb on January 23, 1926. The first President of the Society and the first Editor of the journal was the analytical and inorganic chemist,
Professor Vladimir Njegovan (b. 1884 in Zagreb-d. 1971 in Zagreb).
He remained editor of the Archive until 1933. During his editorship and more or less until the end of the Second World War, the journal had been publishing scientific papers, lectures, announcements of scientific events, reports or titles of papers published by Croatian or Yugoslav chemists in foreign journals, book reviews, obituaries etc. These contributions were mostly published in some kind of a hybrid of Croatian and Serbian languages commonly not spoken by individual scientists.
Njegovan was succeeded by a metallurgist,
Professor Franjo Hanaman (b. 1878 in Drenovci - d. 1941 in Zagreb).
Professor Hanaman and Dr. Aleksandar Just (1872-1937) discovered the electric bulb with wolfram wire . This discovery made them known in our country and abroad. During Hanaman's editorship (1933-1939), the journal changed its name twice. The first change of the name (1938) to Arhiv za hemiju i tehnologiju (Archive for Chemistry and Technology) was induced by the fact that papers reporting pharmaceutical research were rather scarce. In 1939, the term "hemija" was replaced by the Croatian "kemija" giving the name Arhiv za kemiju i tehnologiju. As well, the name of the Yugoslav Chemical Society was changed into the Croatian Chemical Society. This happened due to the political changes in the pre-war Yugoslavia. In 1939, Banovina Hrvatska was formed after an agreement between the leading Croatian political figure of those days Vlatko Macek (1879-1964) and the liberal president of the Yugoslav Government Dragisa Cvetkovic (1893-1963). The use of the Croatian language, instead of the mentioned hybrid-language, was finally possible.
Professor Hanaman suddenly died in 1939 and the geochemist,
Dr. Stanko Miholic (b. 1900 in Zalec, Slovenia - d. 1960 in Bolø, Norway)
was appointed Editor and he performed this duty until 1940. Before the war, the papers written by the Croatian Nobel Laureates, Leopold Ruzicka (1887-1976) and Vladimir Prelog (1906) appeared in the journal:
L. Ruzicka,
From Dalmatian Chrysantemum (Pyrethrum) cinerariifolium Boc. to Sexual Hormones (in Croatian)
Arhiv za kemiju i tehnologiju 14 (1940) 1-20.
and
V. Prelog and E. Cerkovnikov,
Syntheses from Tetrahydro-pyran-gamma-aldehyde (in Croatian with an abstract in English)
Arhiv za hemiju i farmaciju 9 (1935) 14-18.
In 1941, a physical and organic chemist,
Professor Mladen Dezelic (b. 1900 in Zagreb - d. 1989 in Zagreb),
became the Editor of the journal. He took over the journal in the hard times of the Second World War. However, by the end of the war in 1945, he managed to publish three volumes of the journal. In 1941, the journal changed its name again, this time into Kemijski vjestnik (Chemical Gazette). During the war, an important paper on the first synthesis of adamantane was published by Rativoj Seiwerth (1916), who got his Ph. D. degree under Prelog.
R. Seiwerth
On the Synthesis of Adamantane (in Croatian, an abstract in German)
Kemijski vjestnik 15-16 (1942-1943) 20-44.
In 1946, the former name of the journal, in its shorter and much more fitting version: Arhiv za kemiju (Archive for Chemistry), was restored. Its pre-war Editor,
Dr. Stanko Miholic,
took over the editorship again and held this appointment until 1952.
Until 1946, the papers in the journal appeared either in Croatian or Serbian, but also in a hybrid of these two languages. Several papers were printed in German, as well. After 1946, the papers were published in foreign languages regularly. The first paper in English appeared in 1946, written by Professor Kresimir Balenovic (1914) and his doctoral student Rikard Munk (1918-1970):
K. Balenovic and R. Munk,
Contribution to the Knowledge of Polyoxocompounds III
Sym-Dibenzoyl-acetone (1,3,5-trioxo-1,5-diphenylpentane)
Arhiv za kemiju 18 (1946) 41-44.
In the volume 19 (1947), the names of the members of the Editorial Board of the journal appeared for the first time: Kresimir Balenovic (1914), Ivan Brihta (1903-1960), Eugen Gustak (1916-1975), Hrvoje Ivekovic (1901-1991), Miroslav Karsulin (1904-1984), Mirko Mirnik (1916) and Mihovil Prostenik (1916-1994).
In 1953, the physical chemist,
Professor Bozo Tezak (b. 1907 in Varazdin - d. 1980 in Zagreb),
a member of the Editorial Board since 1949, became the Editor of the journal. At its annual assembly the Croatian Chemical Society appointed Tezak to be Editor. Then, Tezak became Editor-in-Chief with two Assistant Editors, Egon Matijevic (1922) and Velimir Vouk (1919-1984), and the Editorial Board consisting of four members: Petar Alaupovic (1925), Ivan Filipovic (1911), Eugen Gustak (1916-1975) and Dionis Sunko (1922). This was the beginning of the journal new era, since Professor Tezak started to introduce changes into editorial policy. The journal developed from a small provincial chemical journal of inconsistent quality into an internationally recognizable publication. The changes introduced by Professor Tezak could be summarized as follows:
Manuscripts had to be submitted in one of the main European languages: English, French, German or Russian (later in English only). However, the manuscripts in Croatian were accepted until the late fifties. Manuscripts were sent to at least two anonymous referees. The manuscripts of Croatian authors were always sent to foreign referees and only those with favourable reports were published. The journal appeared regularly and technical improvements were continuously introduced.
Thanks to Professor Tezak, the present name Croatica Chemica Acta was introduced in 1956. This was not an easy task, since there was a considerable opposition to any change of the name. The struggle for this change lasted for almost a year, and then finally at the annual assembly of the Croatian Chemical Society the proposal was approved.
The change of the name from Arhiv za kemiju into Croatica Chemica Acta was introduced so as to avoid the confusing similarity with the citations of Arkiv Kemi which was the abbreviation of the much better known chemical journal: Arkiv för Kemi published by the Swedish Academy of Science. The choice of the name Croatica Chemica Acta was supported by following arguments: The Latin name of the journal indicated that the articles were printed in one of the main European languages; the term Croatica in the name indicated the national origin. The form of the name was chosen to be Croatica Chemica Acta instead of Acta Chemica Croatica, which would be more in the genius of the Latin language, because there were many journals beginning with Acta and thus among them Acta Chemica Croatica would have been less discernible. Professor Bozo Tezak was the Editor-in-Chief of Croatica Chemica Acta until his premature death of a heart attack, in 1980.
During Tezak's editorship, Croatica Chemica Acta became an established quarterly chemical journal in which the papers covering all fields of chemistry: physical and theoretical chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, inorganic and structural chemistry, analytical chemistry and materials science, were published. He also introduced author(s)' reviews and conference issues.
Tezak was succeeded by a biophysicist,
Dr. Sinisa Maricic (b. 1926 in Skopje, Macedonia),
who remained Editor-in-Chief until 1985. Maricic had already been an Editor in Tezak's time, since 1975, and a member of the Editorial Board of Croatica Chemica Acta since 1959. Dr. Maricic introduced special issues of Croatica Chemica Acta with Guest-Editors.
As Editor-in-Chief of Croatica Chemica Acta, Dr. Sinisa Maricic was succeeded by the physical chemist,
Professor Vladimir Simeon (b. 1939 in Zagreb),
who had been a member of the Editorial Board since 1968. Simeon held the position until 1994. During his editorship, feature articles were introduced, and Honorary Editors and the Advisory Board were added to the structure of the Editorial Board. The first Honorary Editors were the Nobel Laureates: Jean-Marie Lehn, Linus Pauling and Vladimir Prelog. After the death of Linus Pauling in 1994, Jean-Marie Lehn and Vladimir Prelog remained the only Honorary Editors.
Between 1995-2005, the theoretical chemist,
Dr. Nenad Trinajstic (b.1936 in Zagreb)
has been the Editor-in-Chief. To this position he was elected at the annual assembly of the Croatian Chemical Society in May 1994. He has retained the same structure of the Editorial Board, although its membership from Croatia largely changed. The editorial policy set by Professor Tezak is still being followed to the letter, except for one: the Editorial Board meets five to six times a year, while in Tezak's times the meetings were held weekly. Now, many more papers are being submitted for publication both from Croatia and abroad and the size of each volume has increased considerably. The regularity of appearance of the journal is now strictly obeyed, which often has not been the case in the past.
Since 2006
Dr. Nikola Kallay (b.1942 in Zagreb)
is the new Editor-in-Chief.
Since 1975 Croatica Chemica Acta has been appearing in the Journal Citation Reports published by the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia. Similarly, Croatica Chemica Acta has been also referred to by Current Contents since the inception of this important publication. The Journal Citation Report gives the ranking of journals in terms of their impact factors.
The impact factors for the years 1991-1994 indicate that the hard years during the Croatian Liberation War (1991-1995), especially while Zagreb was attacked by Serbian and Montenegrin aggressors, did not prevent Croatica Chemica Acta to publish quality papers by Croatian and foreign authors regularly. The current impact factor of 0.625 compares favourably with the impact factors of the national chemical journals published in the neighbouring countries:
Austria-Monatshefte fur Chemie (0.618);
Czech Republic-Collection of Czech Chemical Communications (0.467);
Italy-Gazzetta Chimica Italiana (0.772);
Hungary-Acta Chimica Hungarica (0.445);
Romania-Revue Roumaine de Chimie (0.141);
Slovakia-Chemical Papers (0.224).
It should be pointed out that the most of these journals have 12 issues per year and are published in countries having far more chemists than Croatia.
The most cited paper from Croatica Chemica Acta is:
W. Stumm, C. P. Huang and S. R. Jenkins,
Specific Chemical Interactions Affecting the Stability of Dispersed Systems,
Croat. Chem. Acta 42 (1970) 223-245.
The research on which this paper is based was reported at the Summer School on the Chemistry of Solid/Liquid Interfaces that was held in Dubrovnik and Cavtat, Croatia, in July 1970. This article has been cited more than thousand times. It became the Science Citation Classic in 1990 and is one of the most cited chemical papers in this half of the century. To the aquatic surface chemistry researchers this paper is continuously recommended (e.g. G. Sposito, in: Aquatic Chemistry-Interfacial and Interspecies Processes, edited by C. P. Huang, C. R. O'Melia and J. J. Morgan, ACS, Washington, DC, 1995, pp. 33-56). The above supports the view that a small journal is not a hindrance for the recognition of an outstanding work.
Nenad Trinajstić (Croat. Chem. Acta 70 (1997) I-IV, updated after Nenad Trinajstić)
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