Conflict of Interest. Or why I am stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics.

Rough timeline of the
Journal of Cheminformatics.
The linked PDF has linked years
with references.

In this open letter, I will explain why I intend to step down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics, which also happens to be a Springer Nature journal. It took me two years to come to this decision, and it cannot be claimed that I did not carefully evaluate the various aspects of it. However, I have now come to the conclusion that the opportunity it gives me to implement my ambition to shape open science chemistry now conflicts with the interests of Springer Nature. I will here outline some of the things I have taken into consideration.

... read more in the full letter on Zenodo.

A personal note and thank you

I will remain Editor-in-Chief until the end of the year. The journal is doing awesome things and if I get the chance, I will likely continue help the journal become even more open science.

Thanks also to Chris and David for starting the journal. It has been an honor and pleasure to follow their steps. Also a huge thanks to Rajarshi with whom we have been Editor-in-Chief for close to five years now. It has been a great pleasure to work so actively on Open Science. Also thanks to Nina and Barbara to joined me and Rajarshi as associate editor and have helped shape the journal. It is comforting I leave the journal with an excellent team. Also, a big thanks to Samuel and Matthew who have been helping us getting the Open Science things done and the the current and past Editorial Board members for important discussions in the telcons. Finally, a thank you to all the authors and reviewers who have all been working so hard to make the journal a success!