Editors’ Report 2008
本文是《商业与经济统计杂志》编辑的年度报告，总结2008年投稿量超350篇、审稿周期缩短等进展，并介绍为减少出版积压而采取的限制页数等新政策。
2008 was the last full year for us as editors of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. In July 2009 we transferred control to the new incoming editors, Keisuke Hirano and Jonathan Wright. Both were superb Associate Editors of JBES, and we are certain they will be excellent Co-Editors. We are very pleased to be putting the journal in such competent and capable hands. The number of submissions to JBES continues to increase, rising to over 350 in 2008. The quality of submissions has also been rising. The result of this combination is that, despite applying increasingly rigorous standards for acceptance, our publication backlog has grown unreasonably large, with waiting times between acceptance and publication of well over a year. We have instituted a number of policies to reduce the backlog. One is a page limit. We now strongly encourage authors to submit manuscripts under thirty pages in length (which translates into roughly into ten pages after typesetting). Unlimited appendices and other auxiliary materials can be put online, so any material that is not of primary importance can still be made available to readers while keeping down the number of pages we typeset and print. Our mean and median manuscript response times are up slightly from the previous year, but remain low (under three months; see Table 1). This rapid response is due to a variety of factors, including a relatively large fraction of papers that are screened out prior to being refereed. But the main reason is the diligence of our staff of Associate Editors alongwith our Table 1. Manuscript review days from submission to first decision