title: 150 Years of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), New Board Members, and More.
abstract: Should manuscripts by young authors with low H indices be directly rejected? Such crazy ideas can be extrapolated from the notion that lots of citations are a guarantee for high quality. Such flawed developments in scientific publishing are one theme of the Editorial by the Editor in Chief of Angewandte Chemie, as are far more positive aspects, such as the activities of the German Chemical Society (GDCh; Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) in it anniversary year, 2017.
authors.affiliation: Angewandte Chemie, 69469, Weinheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2409-9469
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gölitz