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Editorial for Weed Science, Volume 66

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2017

William K. Vencill*
Affiliation:
Professor and Editor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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*Corresponding author’s email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Type
Editorial
Copyright
© Weed Science Society of America, 2018 

This has been an exciting year for Weed Science. For the past year, we have continued to implement new processes and add new functionality as we completed our transition to Cambridge University Press and published our first volume with them. In the coming year, we plan to include a new template for the journal that will be more streamlined and modern and to improve the Instructions to Contributors.

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. If you look at articles published this past year, you will see an increased use of color in figures and photos that boosts the journal’s readability.

Weed Science continues to be one of the premier journals in the discipline and in the agronomic sciences. The editorial board and staff strive to improve the efficiency of the publication process and expand the scope of the journal. Weed Science seeks to publish more reviews and symposium articles. In the past year, five reviews were submitted, and we are hoping to increase that number in 2018.

For the 12 months preceding November 1, 2017, 244 manuscripts were submitted to Weed Science compared to 205 in the previous 12-month period. Of the manuscripts submitted, 40.4% were accepted compared to 49.7% the previous year. The time from submission to first decision was 37 days this past year compared to 39 days for the previous year.

The impact factor for Weed Science decreased slightly from 1.993 to 1.862 this past reporting cycle, while the 5-year impact factor increased from 2.166 to 2.167.Footnote 1 Although the 1-year impact factor decreased, it is encouraging to see the 5-year impact factor increase.

For the year preceding November 1, 2017, the journal depended on 322 unique reviewers. The excellent reputation of the journal would not be possible without the cutting-edge research submitted by authors and 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 2017.

Editorial Board 2017

Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan

Carlene Chase

Bhagirath Chauhan

Sharon Clay

Adam Davis

Franck E. Dayan

J. Anita Dille

Timothy L. Grey

Marie Jasieniuk

Prashant Jha

Ramon Leon

John L. Lindquist

Vijay Nandula

Neha Rana

Chris Preston

Dean Riechers

Hilary Sandler

Steven Seefeldt

Patrick J. Tranel

Martin M. Williams II

Weed Science Reviewers 2017

Rouhollah Amini

James V. Anderson

Lars W.J. Anderson

Randy L. Anderson

Gregory R Armel

Debra R Ayres

Matt Anthony Bahm

Lianyang Bai

James Baird

Judit Barroso

Hugh J. Beckie

Roland Beffa

Mark Lee Bernards

Thierry Eric Besancon

Prasanta Bhowmik

Catherine Borger

Sebastian Bott

Nathan S. Boyd

Rick A. Boydston

Daniel Brainard

Jessica R. Bugg

Nilda R. Burgos

Ian C. Burke

Roberto Busi

Caio Antonio Carbonari

John Cardina

Leonardo Bianco Carvalho

Jesus M. Castillo

Andrea Cavalieri

Buddhika Sampath Chamara

Rakesh S. Chandran

David Chikoye

Michael J. Christoffers

Robert Cicchillo

Amy Concilio

Theresa M. Culley

Mark Andrew Czarnota

Caleb D. Dalley

Henri Darmency

Oleg Daugovish

James DeDecker

Jeffrey F. Derr

Jonathan Castel Djietror

Douglas J. Doohan

Stephen Duke

Ryan James Edwards

Mohamed M. El-Hawary

Matthew T. Elmore

Sarah Emery

Stephen F. Enloe

Lauren Eserman

Seyed V. Eslami

Jeffrey Evans

Joel Felix

Diego Omar Ferraro

Rodrigo Figueroa

Silvia Fogliatto

Frank Forcella

Todd A. Gaines

Eric R. Gallandt

Travis W. Gannon

Roland Gerhards

Hossein Ghanizadeh

Darci Giacomini

Gurjeet S. Gill

Rakesh Kumar Godara

Danica Goggin

Robin Gomez

Jared J. Goplen

Greta Gramig

Robert H. Gulden

Milton Haar

Dustin Haines

Bradley D. Hanson

Erin R. Haramoto

Stuart Patrick Hardegree

K. Neil Harker

Nick T. Harre

Gerald Matthew Henry

Erin C. Hill

Mark Hoffmann

Alois Honek

Andrew G Hulting

Lynn Ingegneri

Khawar Jabran

Katherine M. Jennings

Amit J. Jhala

Christopher Johnston

Nicholas Royal Jordan

Mithila Jugulam

Sandya R Kesoju

Andrew R. Kniss

Nicholas E Korres

Per Kudsk

Vipan Kumar

Sarah Lancaster

Erik A. Lehnhoff

Gilles Lemaire

Meng Li

Steve Li

Rick S. Llewellyn

Martin Anderson Locke

Mark M. Loux

Rodney G. Lym

Rong Ma

Mayank S. Malik

Roberta Masin

Joseph H. Massey

Maor Matzrafi

William B. McCloskey

Patrick E. McCullough

James D. McCurdy

Joseph Scott McElroy

Lei Mei

Fabian Daniel Menalled

Husrev Mennan

Charles A.O. Midega

Philippe Moncuquet

Anna Camilla Moonen

Marcelo L. Moretti

Don W. Morishita

Thomas C. Mueller

Scott Jay Nissen

Iraj Nosratti

Dennis Calvin Odero

Claudia Oliveira

Emmanuel Omondi

A. Onofri

Fernando Hugo Oreja

Daniel Owens

William Louis Patzoldt

Ronald Edward Peachey

Alejandro Perez-Jones

Lauren Poulos

Timothy S. Prather

Andrew Jennings Price

Atul Puri

Sandeep Singh Rana

Jacob Reed

Dawn Refsell

Emilie E. Regnier

Karen A. Renner

Lisa J. Rew

Daniela Neves Ribeiro

Matthew Ryan

Elvira Sahuquillo

Jill Schroeder

Brian J. Schutte

Lauren M. Schwartz-Lazaro

Timothy Seipel

Dale L. Shaner

Lovreet Singh Shergill

Donn G. Shilling

Douglas Edward Shoup

Anil Shrestha

Marie-Josee Simard

Vijay Singh

Reid J. Smeda

Richard G. Smith

Enzhan Song

Yao-Bin Song

Lynn M. Sosnoskie

Greg Spyreas

James J. Stapleton

Tracy M. Sterling

Neal Stewart

David E. Stoltenberg

Stephen D. Strachan

Clarence J. Swanton

Anna Maria Szmigielski

Asif Tanveer

François J. Tardif

John Teasdale

Parsa Tehranchian

Nishanth Tharayil

Breanne Darlene Tidemann

Joel Torra Farré

Ilias S. Travlos

Laura Trejo-Hernández

Te-Ming Paul Tseng

Shane Turner

Bernal E. Valverde

Mark VanGessel

Vijay K. Varanasi

Ribas Antonio Vidal

Martin Miguel Vila-Aiub

Michael Walsh

JinXin Wang

Sarah Ward

Rodrigo Werle

Leslie Ann Weston

James H. Westwood

Scott Neil White

Michael Widderick

Christian J. Willenborg

Sam E. Wortman

R. Joseph Wuerffel

Melinda Yerka

Carla Yerkes

Bryan G. Young

Ken Young

Bernard H. Zandstra

References

1 InCites (2017) 2016 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition. New York: Thomas Reuters.