โ Scribed by A. K. Asbury
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
It is customary to report to the readership on the affairs of the Annah of Neurology each year in the January issue. Nineteen eighty-eight is no exception.
The number of manuscripts received continues to increase gradually. Given the unchanging number of pages available, the rate of acceptance has correspondingly inched downward arid is now at 28%. In the past year nearly a third of manuscripts received originated outside of North America, a laudable trend. Twenty-two percent of manuscripts published in volumes 20 and 21 (July 1986 through June 1987) were communicated from beyond North America. As one can deduce from these figures, manuscripts from the rest of the world on average do not fare quite as well as those from Canada and the United States, probably because of less familiarity with Annals' publishing standards and requirements. Nonetheless, the Annals seeks to publish reports of the best work relating to human neurological disorders, wherever in the world that work is done.
In the past year and a half, time from acceptance to publication has been reduced from 9 months to 6 months. This was done deliberately to minimize publication delay and to keep pace with the accelerating rate of investigation into neurological disorders. Because 5 months is required by the publisher to produce each issue, there is currently no backlog of accepted manuscripts waiting to enter the publishing process. We intend to keep it that way.
In the June, October, and December 1987 issues of the Annals, a new type of article appeared, the Brief Review.
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The last twelve months have been a time of change. With Dr Kimura's help, the relocation of the editorial office to San Francisco went smoothly. The Kyoto office closed in March after a 6-month transition during which editorial activity gradually built up in California as it wound down in Japan.