Monthly Weather Review

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

Publication Statistics 01-Jan-2005 to 31-Dec-2005

Publication Summary

Type	Number	Pages
Articles	202	3546
Notes	10	81
Comments/Replies & other Correspondence	5	14
Weather Summaries	2	42
Picture(s) of the Month	1	7
Total	220	3690

Editorial Operations

Submissions Brought Forward (as of 01-Jan-2005)			181
Submissions Received
	Article	307
	Comment	4
	Letter	0
	Note	41
	Reply	3
	Summary	0
Total submissions received			355
Submissions Transferred			1
Submissions Reaching Final Decision			345
	(Correspondence included in total)	7
Submissions Under Consideration (as of 31-Dec-2005)			186

Statistics for Articles and Notes (not Correspondence) reaching a Final Decision (excluding Transfer) in 2005.

Initial Review Decisions

ACCEPT	1	0.29%
MAJOR	182	52.75%
MINOR	72	20.87%
REJECT	86	24.93%
WITHDRAWN	4	1.16%
Total	343	100%^1

Mean time for Initial Review Decisions (weeks : days) ( 10 : 70 )

¹may not total 100% due to rounding

Final Review Decisions

ACCEPT	235	68.12%
REJECT	98	28.41%
WITHDRAWN	12	3.48%
Total	345	100%^1

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

¹may 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-2005 to 31-Dec-2005

Editorial Operations

		Jorgensen	Skamarock	Cohn	Raymond	Schultz	Doyle	Wakimoto	Bromwich	Evans	Atkins
Submissions Brought Forward (as of 01-Jan-2005)		41	23	30	27	22	21	13	4	0	0
Submissions Received
	Article Comment Letter Note Reply Summary	60 2 0 10 1 0	44 2 0 7 2 0	50 0 0 2 0 0	20 0 0 3 0 0	67 0 0 10 0 0	54 0 0 8 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0	2 0 0 1 0 0	10 0 0 0 0 0
Total submissions received		73	55	52	23	77	62	0	0	3	10
Submissions Transferred		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Submissions Reaching Final Decision		79	45	47	37	65	55	13	4	0	0
	(Correspondence included in total)	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Submissions Under Consideration (as of 31-Dec-2005)		33	31	35	14	32	28	0	0	3	10

Statistics for Articles and Notes (not Correspondence) reaching a Final Decision (excluding Transfer) in 2005.

Initial Review Decisions

	Jorgensen	Skamarock	Cohn	Raymond	Schultz	Doyle	Wakimoto	Bromwich
Accept	0 0.00%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%	1 1.54%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%
Return for major revisions	30 39.97%	28 62.22%	23 48.94%	19 51.35%	30 46.15%	37 67.27%	11 84.62%	4 100%
Return for minor revisions	28 35.44%	3 6.67%	10 21.28%	10 27.03%	17 26.15%	2 3.64%	2 15.38%	0 0.00%
Reject	21 26.58%	14 31.11%	13 27.66%	8 21.62%	15 23.08%	15 27.27%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%
Withdrawn by author	0 0.00%	0 0.00%	1 2.13%	0 0.00%	2 3.08%	1 1.82%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%
Total	79	45	47	37	65	55	13	4
(Weeks : Days)	(8:58)	(10:76)	(14:104)	(14:99)	(7:49)	(8:60)	(7:55)	(13:96)

Final Review Decisions

	Jorgensen	Skamarock	Cohn	Raymond	Schultz	Doyle	Wakimoto	Bromwich
Accept	53 67.09%	26 57.78%	32 68.09%	28 75.68%	42 64.62%	37 67.27%	13 100.00%	4 100.00%
Reject	23 29.11%	17 37.78%	14 29.79%	9 24.32%	19 29.23%	16 29.09%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%
Withdrawn by author	3 3.80%	2 4.44%	1 2.13%	0 0.00%	4 6.15%	2 3.64%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%
Total	79	45	47	37	65	55	13	4
(Weeks : Days)	(22:160)	(27:196)	(36:258)	(32:225)	(19:137)	(25:181)	(32:229)	(37:260)