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Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

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Editors' Report 2006

Torben G Andersen, Arthur Lewbel & Serena Ng

To cite this article: Torben G Andersen, Arthur Lewbel & Serena Ng (2007) Editors' Report 2006, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 25:4, 503-503, DOI:

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Editors’ Report 2006

Torben G. A

NDERSEN

, Arthur L

EWBEL

, and Serena N

G

Torben Andersen served as editor of the Journal of Busi-ness and Economic Statistics for 2006, but only handled the new submissions up to June 30, 2006. After that date all new manuscript submissions were handled by the incoming editors, Serena Ng and Arthur Lewbel. At the same time, a new elec-tronic submission system, Allentrack, was instituted and after some initial bumps is now operating smoothly.

TheJournalreceived 334 new submissions in 2006, which is about the same as in 2005 and a substantial increase from earlier years. The submissions continue to span a wide range of areas in business and economic statistics although finance, labor, macro, marketing, industrial organization, Bayesian and general econometrics are the dominant fields. It seems safe to conclude that the journal continues to attract quality submis-sions and serves an important function as a publication and communication outlet for scholars based in different broad dis-ciplines such as statistics, mathematics, economics and busi-ness.

The unifying theme of almost all papers that are ultimately published in theJournalis methodological novelty along with high quality empirical and theoretical components. Fewer than 15% of submitted papers are ultimately accepted for publica-tion.

Table 1 summarizes review time percentages for submitted manuscripts. The editors and associate editors prescreen all submissions, and to reduce average review times have recently increased the fraction of new submissions that are screened out at this early stage. Submissions that show promise are then

eval-Table 1. Review time percentages and total number of manuscripts submitted 2001–2006

Percentages

Weeks 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006∗

Under 4 17 42 29 17 7 39 Total 220 213 228 315 337 334

∗_{The reported percentages for 2006 are preliminary and will later be revised, due to} record keeping difficulties in reconciling the new electronic and old paper based submis-sion systems. 2006 data combines both types of submissubmis-sions.

uated by an associate editor and by referees who are blind to the authors’ names and affiliation. The introduction of our elec-tronic submission system in midyear has also helped stream-line the review process. These innovations are improving re-view times, as can be seen by Table 1, and we expect further improvement for 2007, when these policies and the electronic submission system will have been in place for a full year.

We, the editors, would like to warmly thank the associate ed-itors, referees, authors, and the editorial staff of theJournalfor their valuable contributions and continued support in making theJBESthe premier journal it is today.

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