One year of Advanced Sensor Research and many more to come!

Abstract

Welcome to the second editorial of our newly launched journal. We still use the term “new” even though it has been 13 months since the first issue of Advanced Sensor Research was published in December 2022; nevertheless, despite being one of the youngest members of our Advanced brand family, remarkable results have been achieved in 2023. We are proud to have published 12 issues and more than 110 articles, including 48 reviews and 1 perspective, covering top research on all aspects of sensing.

We would like to take this opportunity to highlight a few of the many wonderful articles published so far. Although many contributions would deserve to be mentioned, the lack of space allows usto summarize here only the most accessed articles throughout the year 2023, starting with the most frequently accessed review articles (Table 1).

The first article by C. Lee et al. addresses a very timely topic and provides an overview of the recent advances in the development of artificial intelligence sensors and their great potential in critical applications such as smart buildings, individual healthcare, Internet of things, etc. (adsr.202200072). W.-H. Yeo group explains the working principles of electrochemical biosensors for detecting biomarkers in different biofluids, including tears, saliva, breath, urine, and sweat (adsr.202200088). We also published a review by H.-P. Phan and T. N. Do et al. (adsr.202200036), who provide a thorough overview of existing teleoperated surgical robotic systems, highlighting their human–machine interfaces and emphasizing the potential of haptic and sensing technologies. Finally, J. Zikulnig et al. review additive technologies with potential compatibility with conventional electronics manufacturing, specially focusing on the up-scalability and processing challenges for high-volume industrial applications (adsr.202200073).

Before we move on to our most accessed research articles, we would like to take the opportunity to mention once again that Advanced Sensor Research, as part of the Advanced X Research titles, belongs to the Advanced journal family and publishes open-access original research articles as well as review-type contributions. Publishing in a fully gold open access journal makes all articles immediately freely available online and permanently available to everyone worldwide to read, share, download, and cite, offering exceptionally high visibility to authors and their work.

In addition, Wiley has currently several agreements in place with Funders and Institutions to help authors publish open access and cover the associated Article Publication Charges (APCs). Authors who receive funding from an agency or institution holding a Wiley Open Access Account are not required to pay directly. In fact, under these curcumstances, the charges are paid by the institution or funder (see the full Wiley Open Access funds here: https://www.authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/institutional-funder-payments.html).

We are now happy to shortly present our most frequently accessed original research articles (see Table 2). An article by the group of W.-H. Yeo introduces a wearable continuous cardiac biometric patch able to retain the advantages of state-of-the-art biometric technology while resolving some of the current issues typically observed in this type of security systems (adsr.202300074). M. Keshavarz and A. J. Thompson et al. (adsr.202200039) demonstrate the potential for cancer diagnostics by using the novel Pt-black SERS template to differentiate exosomes derived from 4T1 triple negative mouse breast cancer cells.

C. D. Simao et al. show a multiplex sensing electronic skin based on novel fully printed stretchable piezoelectric devices prepared via all screen-printed methodology of a multilayer (adsr.202200016). Finally, the last article we would like to highlight here is from U. Lemmer's group; in their contribution, they show a fully printed temperature sensor on a flexible substrate with high spatial resolution (adsr.202200031).

We are also grateful to all the authors who have submitted many beautiful covers for the journal; Figure 1 shows a selection of our 2023 favourites.

Before we finish, we would like to announce a few developments for the coming year.

Firstly, in 2024, we look forward to the publication of the special issue on “Wearable Chemical Sensors” (expected later this year). Moreover, to keep track of the latest advances in the rapidly evolving research area of Wearable Sensors, we have created a “Hot Topics” section that collects the latest relevant articles from numerous journals.

Last but not least, we are honored to welcome onboard our new Advanced Sensor Research board members:

Canan Dagdeviren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Giuseppe Barillaro, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

We would like to thank our Advisory Board members, authors, reviewers, and readers for their interest as well as their support for Advanced Sensor Research. Best wishes to you all for a healthy and productive year 2024!

With the best wishes from our editorial team,

Marco Squillaci and Marc Zastrow (Editor-in-Chief) on behalf of the Advanced Sensor Research team