Monthly Weather Review

Annual Report to the AMS Publication Commission
David Jorgensen and William Skamarock, Co-Chief Editors

Publication Statistics 01-Jan-2003 to 31-Dec-2003

Publication Summary

Type	Number	Pages
Articles	172	2860
Notes	14	111
Comment/Replies	4	11
Weather Summaries	2	45
Pictures of the Month	1	6
Total	193	3033

Editorial Operations

Submissions Brought Forward (as of 01-Jan-2003)			156
Submissions Received
	Article	267
	Comment	2
	Letter	0
	Note	36
	Proposal	0
	Reply	0
	Summary	0
Total submissions received			305
Submissions Transferred			4
Submissions Reaching Final Decision			290
	(Correspondence included in total)	2
Submissions Under Consideration (as of 31-Dec-2003)			165

Statistics for Articles and Notes (not Correspondence) reaching a Final Decision (excluding Transfer) in 2003.

Initial Review Decisions

ACCEPT	1	0.34%
MAJOR	113	38.97%
MINOR	93	32.07%
REJECT	82	28.28%
WITHDRAWN	1	0.34%
Total	290	100%*

Mean time for Initial Review Decisions (weeks : days) ( 13 : 94 )

* may not total 100% due to rounding

Final Review Decisions

ACCEPT	188	64.83%
REJECT	92	31.72%
WITHDRAWN	10	3.45%
Total	290	100%*

Mean time for Final Review Decisions (weeks : days) ( 26 : 186 )

*may not total 100% due to rounding

Monthly Weather Review

Annual Report to the AMS Publication Commission
David Jorgensen and William Skamarock, Co-Chief Editors

Breakdown of Editorial Operations 01-Jan-2003 to 31-Dec-2003

Editorial Operations

		Gyakum	Jorgensen	Skamarock	Cohn	Kuo	Raymond	Smith	Schultz
Submissions Brought Forward (as of 01-Jan-2003)		25	30	34	3	18	25	21	0
Submissions Received
	Article Comment Letter Note Proposal Reply Summary	21 0 0 3 0 0 0	72 0 0 8 0 0 0	60 1 0 11 0 0 0	46 0 0 3 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0	41 1 0 7 0 0 0	20 0 0 3 0 0 0	7 0 0 1 0 0 0
Total submissions received		24	80	72	49	0	49	23	8
Submissions Transferred		0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
Submissions Reaching Final Decision		38	65	60	27	18	44	37	1
	(Correspondence included in total)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Submissions Under Consideration (as of 31-Dec-2003)		11	40	46	24	0	30	7	7

Statistics for Articles and Notes (not Correspondence) reaching a Final Decision (excluding Transfer) in 2003.

Initial Review Decisions

	Gyakum	Jorgensen	Skamarock	Cohn	Kuo	Raymond	Smith	Schultz
Accept	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Return for major revisions	22 (57.9%)	21 (32.3%)	21 (35.0%)	3 (11.1%)	8 (44.4%)	12 (27.3%)	26 (70.3%)	0 (0.0%)
Return for minor revisions	6 (15.8%)	26 (40.0%)	21 (35.0%)	7 (25.9%)	9 (50.0%)	18 (40.9%)	6 (16.2%)	0 (0.0%)
Reject	10 (26.3%)	17 (26.2%)	17 (28.3%)	17 (63.0%)	1 (5.6%)	14 (31.8%)	5 (13.5%)	1 (100%)
Withdrawn by author	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Total	38	65	60	27	18	44	37	1
(Weeks : Days)	(10:76)	(10:71)	(15:106)	(18:128)	(21:151)	(15:106)	(10:76)	(6:40)

Final Review Decisions

	Gyakum	Jorgensen	Skamarock	Cohn	Kuo	Raymond	Smith	Schultz
Accept	25 (65.8%)	44 (67.7%)	41 (68.3%)	9 (33.3%)	17 (94.4%)	26 (59.1%)	26 (70.3%)	0 (0.0%)
Reject	11 (28.9%)	19 (29.2%)	18 (30.0%)	18 (66.7%)	1 (5.6%)	16 (36.4%)	8 (21.6%)	1 (100.0%)
Withdrawn by author	2 (5.3%)	2 (3.1%)	1 (1.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (4.5%)	3 (8.1%)	0 (0.0%)
Total	38	65	60	27	18	44	37	1
(Weeks : Days)	(29:204)	(21:152)	(27:193)	(23:163)	(39:272)	(28:202)	(28:198)	(6:40)