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Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

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Editor's Report 2004

Torben G Andersen

To cite this article: Torben G Andersen (2005) Editor's Report 2004, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 23:4, 495-495, DOI: 10.1198/073500105000000117

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Editor’s Report 2004

Torben G. A

NDERSEN

TheJournal_{received 315 new submissions in 2004. This}

rep-resents a 38% increase over the previous year and it exceeds the all-time high for submission by an equal amount. The sub-missions span a wide range of areas in business and economic statistics although financial econometrics, labor, macro, mar-keting, Bayesian, and general econometrics are the dominant fields. Since there is a considerable amount of overlap among these areas, I abstain from seeking to classify the exact share that each field occupies.

Manuscripts that appear to have technical merit and demon-strated value are evaluated by an Associate Editor and by refer-ees who are blind to the authors’ names and affiliation. Table 1 summarizes the duration distribution for review times for new submissions in 2004. Note that these figures exclude resubmis-sions of manuscripts originally submitted in 2004 or in prior years. In addition, Figures 1 and 2 plot the Kaplan–Meier es-timates of the survivor function for, respectively, all new sub-missions in 2004 and those new subsub-missions in 2004 that were reviewed by referees. The figures reflect an upsurge in the num-ber of submissions to theJournal_{and a slight deterioration in}

the review times. The latter is in part attributable to the addi-tional work load caused by the increased number of manuscript submissions relative to the number of Associate Editors on the board. Preliminary observations through July of 2005 confirm that the increase in submissions is permanent, so I have taken steps to expand the Associate Editor Board accordingly in or-der to avoid an excessive burden being placed on the Associate Editors in the future.

A few other significant developments for the Journal _are

worth noting here. First,JBES _{is now included in the on-line}

scholarly journal archiveJSTOR_{. This will help greatly in}

main-taining and expanding the visibility of theJournal_going

for-ward. Second, theJBES_{Editorial Office is currently testing an}

electronic submission system and it is anticipated that the Jour-nal_{will start accepting new submissions through this on-line}

system in early 2006. This is an important step in

rationaliz-Table 1. Review Times for the Manuscripts Submitted in 2004

Percentages _Duration statistics

Days Weeks 2001 2002 2003 2004 2001 2002 2003 2004

Under 4 17 42 29 17 Median 125 89 104 126

Total submissions 220 213 228 315

Figure 1. Kaplan–Meier Survival Function for All Submissions in 2004.

ing and streamlining the submission and refereeing process and will facilitate the transfer period of the editorial position from the outgoing to the incoming editor. Finally, there has been a substantial increase in the number of submissions to the yearly

Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics

com-petition. This is also a contributing factor in enhancing the vis-ibility of theJournal_{across a diverse set of scholars spanning}

the business economics, econometrics, and statistics fields.

Figure 2. Kaplan–Meier Survival Function for Refereed Submissions in 2004.

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