"... publishes commentaries on important articles related to classical molecular simulations of hard and soft matter materials. The objectives are to inform practitioners in the field of key contributions, both new developments and foundational work, that they should be aware of, and to provide a forum for community discussion of such innovations."
If this venture proves to be fruitful and gets traction, I think it's going to greatly aid newcomers to the field. This is particularly the case in computational materials science and materials informatics where the explosion of research papers and new tools is far too difficult to keep up with. The one thing though is this is just an opinion/commentary journal so it won't provide the "how-to" part of a research paper.
The one thing I'm curious about is whether or not the editors of the journal will get enough contributing authors to make the electronic publication be productive. I would guess that only senior, well-established, researchers are going to be willing to contribute given that if their commentary indicates that a paper is "not that impactful" it may be seen as "risky" for a young researcher. The solution is probably just to focus on papers that are known to advance the field of computational materials science and then just focus on providing "spark" notes/commentary.
Overall, I hope this electronic publication takes off as it will make it much easier to figure out what papers I should read to stay up-to-date. If you are interested, you can submit recommendations for articles to be reviewed here. Best of luck to the editors and future authors.
