Acta Chimica - Models in Chemistry 129. (1992)

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Acta Chimica Hungarica - Models in Chemistry 129 (1 ), p. 1 (1992) Editorial This is definitely not how the announcement of the new profile, new Editorial Boards and, all in all, a prospective new era of our journal was conceived not much more than one year ago. We all, old and new editors of Acta Chimica Hungarica - MODELS IN Chemistry completely agreed that the transition should be as smooth as possible and, unlike in the multitude of cases we see all too much in our country nowadays, the "change of regime" would not necessarily mean the dropping of heads but can be performed with joint efforts, hand in hand, as it were. As usual, sweet dreams were contrasted by harsh reality. The sudden and untimely illness of Professor Gyula Deák, former Managing Editor, turned the friendly relay into a deadly race. Only the most important administrative affairs could properly be arranged, no time was left for him to share with us his life-long experience with authors, referees, publishers and all those participants of the game of journal editing. We were left alone not only with the huge piles of manuscripts and other documents but also with a vast network of human relations so cleverly handled by him for decades. Paradoxically, without him any radical break with the old Acta is even more inconceivable than it would have been with him. Whatever he assumed responsibility for is now our obligation. Honouring obligation as it is, there is no one to argue with even if we should. Nobody should expect, therefore, spectacular changes in the first issues. Somebody jokingly proposed that the title Acta Chimica Hungarica should be smaller and smaller on the cover of each forthcoming volume by one typographical point, while the subtitle MODELS IN CHEMISTRY should be larger and larger. That is exactly what we plan to do, if not just literally. We hope the readers will be pleased to find new names, new sections, new features in the forthcoming issues. To transform a broad-based national chemistry journal into a specialty oriented international one takes some time. I hope we shall all live to see it. Many were puzzled by the chosen profile of the journal indicated in the subtitle: MODELS IN Chemistry. I prefer not to consider it a profile at all but rather a flexible frame. What the frame will be filled with is largely depends on the prospective authors. The most an editor can do is to suppress his/her preconceptions and pass unnoticed. The Editors Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest

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