Monthly Weather Review

Annual Report to the AMS Publication Commission
David Jorgensen and Ying-Hwa Kuo, Co-Chief Editors

Publication Statistics 01-Jan-2002 to 31-Dec-2002

Publication Summary
  Type Number Pages
  Article   169   2933
  Comment   2   10
  Note   18   158
  Summary   0   0
 
  Total   191   3113

 

Editorial Operations
  Submissions Brought Forward (as of 01-Jan-2002)   133
  Submissions Received    
    Article 236  
    Comment 2  
    Note 13  
    Reply 1  
    Summary 1  
    Total submissions received:   253
  Submissions Transferred   1
  Submissions Reaching Final Decision   233
    Incl. Correspondence 1  
  Submissions Under Consideration (as of 31-Dec-2002)   155
 
  Total   385

Statistics for Articles and Notes (not Correspondence) reaching a Final Decision (excluding Transfer) in 2002.

Initial Review Decisions
    Number Percent
  Accept 8 3.5
  Return for minor revisions 49 21.3
  Return for major revisions 129 56.1
  Reject 41 17.8
  Transfer 1 0.4
  Withdrawn by author 2 0.9
 
  Total 230 100
  Mean time for Initial Review Decision (weeks : days)  (12 : 86)

 

Final Review Decisions
    Number Percent
  Accept 168 72.1
  Reject 49 21
  Transfer 1 0.4
  Withdrawn by author 15 6.4
 
  Total 233 99.9
  Mean time for Final Review Decision (weeks : days)  (30 : 214)