The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), founded in 1879, is the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society and the world's preeminent journal in all of chemistry and interfacing areas of science. This periodical is devoted to the publication of fundamental research papers and publishes approximately 19,000 pages of Articles, Communications, and Perspectives a year. The JACS, the most cited journal in chemistry, received 408,307 total citations and an increase in Impact Factor to 9.907, as reported in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports? by Thomson Reuters.

In this reputed Journal, three of our 2011-iChEM members, Prof. Lijun Wan, Zhongqun Tian, and Dongyuan Zhao have been elected as the members of Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the JACS. Total of four members in JACS’s EAB so far are all from Mainland China (Prof. Chunli Bai, Lijun Wan, Zhongqun Tian, and Dongyuan Zhao). This good news demonstrated that the research and the scientists in our Center have been recognized internationally nowadays.