The following joint Editorial was originally published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c04253). The research community faces unprecedented disruption from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Some researchers are beginning to return to lab work after a hiatus, but others continue to work as best as they can from home, including ourselves. The global editorial, support, and production staff of ACS journals continue to work as usual, even though most are working from locations that are not their usual work environment. Throughout this period, we seek to assist our authors, reviewers, and readers, despite the exceptional disruption to their normal research workflow. One area of particular concern is that authors may require extra time to prepare revised manuscripts, especially if additional laboratory-based experimental work is required to address specific reviewer or editor concerns. At this time, reviewers may consider limiting their recommendations for additional experimental work, except in those cases where they deem it necessary to support the central claims of the paper and maintain high standards of science/engineering. Please let us know if you require extra time to complete a revision of your manuscript as we are happy to work with you to determine an appropriate course of action. Should authors or reviewers have questions or concerns during this period regarding the need for additional time for a review or revision, please do not hesitate to contact the editorial office responsible for the manuscript and/or the editor-in-chief. ACS Publications has a resource page for readers, authors and reviewers and it can be accessed here. The editors and staff at our journals wish our community the best as it faces multiple challenges arising from the pandemic. Among those most impacted are young scientists and other early career members of the community, and we hope everyone does their best to support one another, especially those most affected by the disruption, and that, globally, we observe a quick resolution to the situation. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.

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2020年4月，我们的读者，审阅者和作者社区的更新

以下联合社论最初发表在《美国化学学会杂志》上（DOI：10.1021 / jacs.0c04253）。全球COVID-19大流行给研究界带来了前所未有的破坏。休假后，一些研究人员开始重返实验室工作，但另一些研究人员继续在包括自己在内的家里尽其所能。ACS期刊的全球编辑，支持和制作人员将继续照常工作，即使大多数人不在其通常的工作环境中工作。在此期间，尽管对他们的正常研究工作流程造成了极大的干扰，我们仍希望为我们的作者，审稿人和读者提供帮助。特别需要关注的一个领域是作者可能需要更多的时间来准备修订的手稿，尤其是在需要额外的基于实验室的实验工作来解决特定审稿人或编辑者的关注时。此时，审稿人可以考虑限制他们对其他实验工作的建议，除非他们认为有必要支持论文的中心主张并保持较高的科学/工程水平。如果您需要额外的时间来完成稿件的修订，请告诉我们，我们很高兴与您一起确定适当的行动方案。如果作者或审稿人在此期间对需要额外的时间进行审阅或修订有疑问或疑虑，请不要犹豫，与负责稿件和/或主编的编辑部联系。ACS出版物有一个供读者，作者和审阅者使用的资源页面，可以在这里访问。我们期刊的编辑和工作人员祝愿我们的社区一切顺利，因为它面临着由大流行引起的多重挑战。受影响最大的是青年科学家和社区中的其他早期职业人士，我们希望每个人都尽最大努力互相支持，尤其是受破坏影响最大的人，并且在全球范围内，我们观察到了对此情况的快速解决方案。本文尚未被其他出版物引用。