This has been an exciting year for Weed Science. We have introduced a new template for the journal that has given it a more modern look. After discussing the issue for several years, we have implemented a new way to refer to common and scientific names of crop and weed species to bring the journal more in line with other international journals of pest management. It has been great to see an increased use of color in figures and photos.
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 received three reviews submitted.
For the 12 months preceding October 1, 2018, there were 233 manuscripts submitted to Weed Science compared to 237 in the previous 12-month period. Of the manuscripts submitted, 40.2% were accepted compared to 35.1% the previous year. The time from submission to first decision was 35.6 days this past year compared to 39.8 days for the previous year.
We are happy to report that the impact factor for Weed Science increased above 2.00 for the first time to 2.004 from 1.867 this past year, and the 5-year impact factor increased from 2.167 to 2.351.
For the year preceding October 1, 2018, the journal depended on 287 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 2018.
Editorial Board 2018
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
Sara Martin
Vijay Nandula
Neha Rana
Chris Preston
Dean Riechers
Hilary Sandler
Steven Seefeldt
Patrick J. Tranel
Martin M. Williams II
Weed Science Reviewers, December 1, 2017–September 30, 2018
Hesham A. Agrama
Hafiz Haider Ali
Pedro Luis Costa Aguiar Alves
Rayhaneh Asgarpour
Jeffrey L. Atkinson
Sanjeev K. Bangarwa
Barbara Baraibar
Mohammad T. Bararpour
Jacob Barney
Nicholas Tuschak Basinger
Roland Beffa
Chris Benedict
Sarah Berger
Jacob Berl
Thierry Eric Besancon
Louis Gregory Boddy
Eric Bohnenblust
Kerry E. Bosveld
Rick A. Boydston
Daniel Brainard
Lynn P. Brandenberger
Nilda R. Burgos
Ian C. Burke
Roberto Busi
Charles W. Cahoon
Zhe Cao
Gurinderbir S. Chahal
Buddhika Sampath Chamara
Rakesh S. Chandran
Raghavan Charudattan
Jed B. Colquhoun
Warren Conway
Maxwel Coura Oliveira
Mark Andrew Czarnota
Caleb D. Dalley
Leonardo Dantonino
Henri Darmency
Oleg Daugovish
Vince M. Davis
James DeDecker
Antonio DiTommaso
Peter J. Dittmar
Liyao Dong
Douglas J. Doohan
Esther Shekinah Durairaj
Mads Dyrmann
Ryan James Edwards
Friday Ekeleme
Ilias George Eleftherohorinos
Matthew T. Elmore
William Erskine
Peter M. Eure
Todd A. Gaines
Eric R. Gallandt
Zahoor A. Ganie
Katherine M. Ghantous
Javid Gherekhloo
Darci Giacomini
Kevin D. Gibson
Thomas K. Gitsopoulos
Amar S. Godar
Danica Goggin
Robin Gomez
Konstantin Gongalsky
Greta Gramig
Wykle Greene
Robert H. Gulden
Dustin Haines
Linda M. Hall
Devin Hammer
Erin R. Haramoto
Stuart Patrick Hardegree
Nick T. Harre
Timothy Brian Harrington
Abul Hashem
Marshall Hay
Erin C. Hill
Johnathon D. Holman
David P. Horvath
Lynn Ingegneri
Katherine M. Jennings
Amit J. Jhala
Eric Johnson
Mithila Jugulam
Gabriella Kazinczi
Husam Saadi Mohammed Khalaf
Nicholas E. Korres
Hansjoerg Kraehmer
Robert J. Kremer
Per Kudsk
Vipan Kumar
Sarah Lancaster
Ryan Lee
Erik A. Lehnhoff
Donald H. Les
Meng Li
Steve Li
Donato Loddo
Drew J. Lyon
Rong Ma
Neil William MacDonald
Parthapratim Maiti
Mayank S. Malik
Joseph H. Massey
Bruce D. Maxwell
Lambert B. McCarty
Joseph Scott McElroy
Kristen E. McNaughton
Mohsen B. Mesgaran
Stephen L. Meyers
Timothy W. Miller
William T. Molin
Thomas C. Mueller
Robert Edward Nurse
Dennis Calvin Odero
Fernando Hugo Oreja
William Louis Patzoldt
Ronald Edward Peachey
Alejandro Perez-Jones
Todd Pester
Kristina Polziehn
James Pratley
Krzysztof Pudełko
Dawn Refsell
Emilie E. Regnier
Karen A. Renner
Daniela Neves Ribeiro
Patrick Rich
Robert Jeryl Richardson
Christian Ritz
Erin Rosskopf
Christopher Rouse
Debalin Sarangi
Maurizio Sattin
Laura Scarabel
Ananda Scherner
Jan Henrik Schmidt
Brian J. Schutte
Lovreet Singh Shergill
Donn G. Shilling
Marie-Josée Simard
Daljit Singh
Vijay Singh
Stephen Smith
Lynn M. Sosnoskie
Neal Stewart
David E. Stoltenberg
Jonathan Storkey
Seth A. Strom
Clarence J. Swanton
Alireza Taab
Parsa Tehranchian
Daniel R. Tekiela
Nishanth Tharayil
Curtis R. Thompson
Breanne Tidemann
Joel Torra Farré
Ilias S. Travlos
Te-Ming Paul Tseng
Mark VanGessel
Vijay K. Varanasi
William Vencill
Francesco Vidotto
Pei Wang
Sarah Ward
Rodrigo Werle
James H. Westwood
Scott Neil White
Christian J. Willenborg
Sam E. Wortman
Chenxi Wu
Joe Yenish
Melinda Yerka
Ken Young
