YEAR IN REVIEW New Beginnings
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defining aspect of ECS’s legacy and reputation is its preeminence as a technical publisher in the field of electrochemical and solid state sciences. To adapt to a changing publishing world, and to ensure our ongoing preeminence, ECS launched a new publishing partnership with the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). IOPP is more than a vendor supporting ECS’s publishing operations. An outstanding technical publisher, IOPP shares our commitment to ensuring the technical quality of the works published, and the integrity and validity of peer review by the ECS community. The entire ECS Digital Library, including The Journal of the Electrochemical Society and the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, now resides on IOPscience, IOPP’s industry-leading platform for publishing and disseminating world-class scientific content.
Giants Among Us! One of the year’s highlights—frankly, of any year in ECS’s storied history—was the announcement, just days before the 236th ECS Meeting, that long-standing ECS members John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of Lithium-ion batteries.” This is fitting recognition for the truly groundbreaking advancements these pioneers made to our field and the whole of humanity. Simply put, their research is the enabling science upon which the solutions to the grand challenges facing the planet—renewable energy, clean transportation, communications, to name but a few—are based. The ECS community is honored to count their nearly 60 years of combined membership among our ranks.
Strong Performance Operationally, the Society had an extremely successful year, improving performance across the majority of important indicators: • Membership rose 6% over 2018 figures to 8,771 • For the first time, journal submissions surpassed 4,000 (4,096), resulting in nearly 2,000 (1,955) articles published, and 3.5M downloads • Meeting attendance (4,710 total attendees) and submissions were very strong; over 2,285 abstracts were submitted for the 235th meeting, and 2,521 for the 236th meeting The credit goes to ECS’s professional core. From the Pennington, NJ, base, they directed the organization’s critical operations effectively, while significantly reducing operating expenses. This is a testament to the volunteer/ staff partnership which is a hallmark of ECS and a key element of our sustained success. Simply put, ECS would not, could not, exist without the volunteers, members, and other constituents like you who give their time, talent, and energy to our collective cause. Thank you.
Christina Bock ECS President Spring 2019-Spring 2020 Christopher Jannuzzi Executive Director and CEO
The Electrochemical Society • 2019 Annual Report • www.electrochem.org
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