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Abstract

Since my last Editorial (Zucker, 2016), it feels that the Journal has ramped up in terms of "busyness." When I became Editor in 2002, we had 80 new submissions. There has been, more or less, a linear increase since then, hitting a milestone of sorts in 2017, when we surpassed 500 new submissions for the first time (Fig. 1). I don't think that this temporal pattern is unique to Archives: Its fraternal opposite-sex twin,

Archives at 50 Years

“…In 2019, the percentage of "rejected" manuscripts was 53.3%, "major revision" was 38.7%, and "provisional accept" was 7.8%. These figures remain fairly consistent with prior years (e.g., Zucker, 2018Zucker, , 2020. For contributing authors, it is important to note that when manuscripts are given the designation of a Major Revision, the vast majority (of those that are resubmitted) are accepted for publication.…”