2015 Report to Readers
报告了《金融分析师期刊》2015年的出版情况，包括文章数量、订阅量、网站访问量、投稿与接受率等数据，对投资专业人士了解期刊影响力和内容价值有参考意义。
The year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the Financial Analysts Journal, and we celebrated the occasion with the publication of a special issue on retirement security (January/February). In total, we published 25 articles, including 17 new articles, 4 Perspectives, and 4 Viewpoints, on a broad range of topics. This variety of content provided unique opportunities for readers to advance their knowledge and understanding of the practice of investment management and to keep abreast of new ideas and new developments. The Journal continues to have high visibility and impact. Our print distribution now reaches more than 137,000 subscribers worldwide. During 2015, our website (www.cfapubs.org/loi/faj) received more than 630,000 accesses, a 33% increase over 2014. Articles published in the Journal are regularly cited in the media (including blogs), and downloads from journal aggregators EBSCO and JSTOR exceeded 750,000 in 2015. CFA Institute members continue to value the Journal. In the 2015 publications survey, 83% of respondents indicated that the Journal was either important or very important in keeping their professional knowledge and skills up to date and 75% of respondents reported that they were either satisfied or very satisfied with the content published in the Journal. The editorial team’s objective is to continue to increase the practical value of published articles so that the Journal remains useful to practicing investment professionals. The Journal continues to attract submissions from authors around the world, and we sincerely appreciate the efforts of all who offer to share their work with us in order to help readers remain competent professionals. As shown in Table 1, we received 386 new submissions during 2015, a 5% increase over 2014. Table 2 shows that the acceptance rate increased by nearly 2 percentage points between 2014 and 2015, reaching 6.7%. As reported in Table 3, about half the papers accepted for publication in the Journal went through one round of revisions; rarely do papers submitted to the Journal go through more than two rounds of revisions. Because the Journal does not charge a submission fee, we receive a very large number of submissions each year. Every paper is read carefully by the editorial team. Those papers that are not a good fit for the Journal or are otherwise highly unlikely to survive editorial review are returned to the authors with a letter explaining why the paper was not sent out for review. The large number of desk-rejected papers explains the relatively high desk-rejection rate and the relatively low acceptance rate. We are also rejecting unsuitable papers earlier than before. As shown in Table 4, the desk-rejection rate increased from 45% to 62% between