Impact Factors, Open Access, and 125 Years of Angewandte Chemie
This is an excellent editorial by Peter Golitz in the current issue of ACIE, which is freely available at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201206849/pdf
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