This has been an exciting year for Weed Science. For the past year, we have been transitioning from Allen Press to Cambridge University Press. This will be our first issue with Cambridge University Press. The journal will go from four to six issues per year and will be online only. One of the benefits of being online only will be that we no longer will charge for color photographs or figures, so I would encourage authors to use more color in their submissions. The manuscript submission process should be seamless for authors, as we are still using the underlying software that was present in PeerTrack, it will now just be referred to as Editorial Manager. One last change that authors will see will be in early-view articles. Instead of the submitted manuscript being posted online after acceptance, Weed Science will post the completed article (known as the Version of Record) in the First View section. This will be the final article minus the page numbers.
Weed Science continues to be one of the premier journals in the discipline and in the agronomic sciences. The editorial board and the staff strive to improve the efficiency of the publication process and improve the scope of the journal. Weed Science seeks to publish more reviews and symposium articles. This past year, Weed Science published a special issue of Weed Science from presenters at the WSSA Herbicide Resistance Summit II.
For the 12 months preceding September 1, 2016, 205 manuscripts were submitted to Weed Science compared with 211 in the previous 12-month period. Of the manuscripts accepted, 45.4% were accepted compared with 44.3% the previous year. The time from submission to first decision was 37 days this past year compared with 44 days for the previous year.
The impact factor for Weed Science increased from 1.870 to 1.993 this past reporting cycle, while the 5 year impact factor increased from 1.928 to 2.166. I believe the latest impact factor and the 5 year impact factor are the best the journal has ever had.
For the year preceding September 1, 2016, the journal depended on 276 unique reviewers from 28 countries for peer review. The excellent reputation of the journal would not be possible without the cutting-edge research submitted by authors, the diligent work of the editorial board, and the hundreds of referred reviews that are submitted annually. I wish to thank the members of the editorial board and reviewers for 2016.
Editorial Board 2016
Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan
Carlene Chase
Bhagirath Chauhan
Sharon Clay
Adam Davis
Franck E. Dayan
J. Anita Dille
Timothy L. Grey
Marie Jasieniuk
Ramon Leon
John L. Lindquist
Vijay Nandula
Chris Preston
Dean Riechers
Hilary Sandler
Steven Seefeldt
Patrick J. Tranel
Martin M. Williams II
Weed Science Reviewers 2016
Ricardo Alcántara-de la Cruz
James V. Anderson
Randy L. Anderson
Lars W. J. Anderson
Gregory R. Armel
Antonia D. Asencio
Albert O. Ayeni
Matt Anthony Bahm
Sanjeev K. Bangarwa
Travis Bean
Laura Louise Beaton
Hugh J. Beckie
Roberto Benech-Arnold
Lori K. Benoit
Thierry Eric Besancon
Carmen K. Blubaugh
Rick A. Boydston
Daniel Brainard
James T. Brosnan
Nilda R. Burgos
Ian C. Burke
John Cardina
Andrea Cavalieri
Aman Chandi
Rakesh S. Chandran
Carlene A. Chase
Sushila Chaudhari
William J. Chism
Michael J. Christoffers
Warren Conway
Roberto J. Crespo
Daniel Chad Cummings
Mark Andrew Czarnota
Caleb D. Dalley
Henri Darmency
Richard Davis
Christophe Delye
Jeffrey F. Derr
Joseph M. DiTomaso
Jonathan Castel Djietror
David Lee Dornbos Jr.
Ryan James Edwards
Ilias George Eleftherohorinos
Stephen F. Enloe
Jonathan E. Ephrath
Amber Eytcheson
Jason Ferrell
Lloyd Flack
Michael Luke Flessner
Silvia Fogliatto
Frank Forcella
Chaim Frankel
George Frisvold
Todd A. Gaines
Travis W. Gannon
David Gealy
Roland Gerhards
Darci Giacomini
Kevin D. Gibson
Gurjeet S. Gill
Rakesh Kumar Godara
Greta Gramig
Robert H. Gulden
Dustin Haines
Bradley D. Hanson
Stuart Patrick Hardegree
K. Neil Harker
Nick T. Harre
Kent Kent Harrison
Abul Hashem
Erin C. Hill
Melissa J. Hills
David P. Horvath
Lynn Ingegneri
Jordi Izquierdo
Marie A. Jasieniuk
Prashant Jha
Amit J. Jhala
Nicholas Royal Jordan
Mithila Jugulam
Miroslav Jursík
Yalcin Kaya
Jason P. Kelley
James J. Kells
Ken Klemow
Susan Koehler
Nicholas E. Korres
Robert J. Kremer
Greg Kruger
Vipan Kumar
Sarah Lancaster
D. K. Lee
Ramon G. Leon
Lingxu Li
Matt Liebman
Rick S. Llewellyn
Mark M. Loux
Drew J. Lyon
Rong Ma
Mayank S. Malik
Hiroshi Matsumoto
Jeff Maughan
William B. McCloskey
James D. McCurdy
Joseph Scott McElroy
Kristen E. McNaughton
Fabian Daniel Menalled
Timothy W. Miller
John Miranowski
Steven B. Mirsky
Patrick Moran
Thomas C. Mueller
Hanwen Ni
Robert Edward Nurse
Dennis Calvin Odero
David Olszyk
Maria Dolores Osuna Ruiz
Bassiaka Ouatara
Daniel Owens
William Louis Patzoldt
Ed Peachey
Alejandro Perez-Jones
Abelino Pitty
Angela R. Post
Christopher Preston
Andrew Jennings Price
Neha Rana
Sandeep Singh Rana
Jordi Recasens
Dawn Refsell
Emilie E. Regnier
Kurt Reinhart
Karen A. Renner
Dilpreet Riar
Daniela Neves Ribeiro
Darren E. Robinson
Diego Rubiales
Francesc Xavier Sans
Laura Scarabel
Jill Schroeder
Brian J. Schutte
Julio Alejandro Scursoni
Dale L. Shaner
Vinod K. Shivrain
Sudeep Sidhu
Peter H. Sikkema
Samunder Singh
Vijay Singh
Reid J. Smeda
Richard G. Smith
Lynn M. Sosnoskie
Josef Soukup
Christy L. Sprague
Daniel O. Stephenson IV
Tracy M. Sterling
David E. Stoltenberg
Jens Carl Streibig
Clarence J. Swanton
François J. Tardif
Parsa Tehranchian
Joel Torra Farré
Hilmi Torun
Ilias S. Travlos
Te-Ming Paul Tseng
Esa Tyystjärvi
Mark VanGessel
Michael Walsh
Guang-Xi Wang
JinXin Wang
Sarah Ward
Rodrigo Werle
Paula Westerman
James H. Westwood
Joe Yenish
Melinda Yerka
Carla Yerkes
Bryan G. Young
Stephen L. Young
Rafael Zas
Mingqi Zheng
Richard Zollinger
