Note from the Incoming Editorial Team

Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 65 (2012) VI

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Note from the Incoming Editorial Team If journal titles are intended to indicate their content, then ‘‘Progress in NMR Spectroscopy” has certainly lived up to its name. Since the Journal was founded in 1966, only a decade or so after the first commercial NMR spectrometers appeared, the many reviews published in ‘‘Progress” have reflected the huge development and diversification that the subject has undergone. A colleague once said that, for him, the appeal of NMR was that it involved so many different areas: quantum physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials science, medicine, computing and electronics, to name only some of the more obvious, and articles covering the intersection with NMR of all of these areas and more have appeared in ‘‘Progress” during the near half-century of its existence. Not only this, but the reviews in ‘‘Progress” are widely regarded as one of the best places to ‘‘get started” in many different areas of NMR - generally they are authoritative, in-depth and particularly clear, and consequently they often represent an ideal introduction to a topic. This strong reputation is very largely the result of the exceptional dedication of the founding Editors whose names have long been synonymous with the Journal, that is to say Prof. Jim Emsley, Dr. Jim Feeney and Prof. Les Sutcliffe. To say that taking over the Journal from the previous Editors is a challenge is of course a considerable understatement - maintaining the current very high standards at ‘‘Progress” is in no sense a limited ambition, and is indeed the main aim of the incoming Editorial Board. We will continue to invite reviews from experts in those areas we judge to be of the greatest interest to a wide readership of NMR spectroscopists, across all disciplines. In doing this, as in the past, we

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will not take an over-literal interpretation of the Journal title. For instance, we will continue to publish articles on magnetic resonance imaging where there is a strong interest in the NMR rather than purely in the medical aspects. We may also sometimes publish articles in other branches of magnetic resonance, such as EPR, where we judge that there is an overlap of interest with the NMR community. In short, our overriding aim will always be to publish articles that NMR spectroscopists will want to read. We look forward with enthusiasm to working with our authors and the publisher to bring this about. As we embark on our new role, we would like to start by expressing our warmest thanks, on behalf of the readers and authors of ‘‘Progress in NMR”, to the founding Editors of the Journal for providing the NMR community with such a valuable resource over so many years. It is clear that for them it was a labour of love, but we have all been the beneficiaries. We wish them well. David Neuhaus, Co-ordinating Editor Geoffrey Bodenhausen, David Gadian, Beat Meier, Gareth Morris, Editors January, 2012