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Editorial for Weed Science, Volume 71

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2023

William K. Vencill*
Affiliation:
Professor and Editor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Author for correspondence: William K. Vencill, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Email: wvencill@uga.edu
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Weed Science Society of America

This past year has been another exciting year for Weed Science. The publishing industry, like many other areas of society, is undergoing rapid change. Through the changes and challenges, the journal remains strong because of authors, reviewers, and editorial board members. We appreciate the efforts of all to continue submitting and reviewing submissions. We are always appreciative of the efforts of reviewers and associate editors.

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. For the coming year, we have should have a review lined up for every issue and hope to expand the 2015 special issue on research methods.

I want to highlight a couple of initiatives underway. First, we are still exploring the possibility of adding graphical abstracts to the journal. Second, I would like to point out to those who may not be aware that Weed Science like the other WSSA journals is a what we call a hybrid journal and does publish open access articles. There is a growing trend toward publishing in the open access format, and our data show articles published open access tend to have more downloads, social media mentions, and citations over time. In Weed Science, the number of articles published open access has grown substantially in the past year. In Volume 70, Issue 1, 6/15 articles were open access. Issue 4, which will be released soon after I write this, will have 15/16 articles published open access. This trend has been accelerated by Read and Publish agreements that Cambridge University Press has made with university and other research libraries around the world. If your university has a Read and Publish agreement with Cambridge University Press, the price to the author for publication is substantially reduced. To learn more and to see if your organization has a Read and Publish agreement, please check this site: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/waivers-discounts.

For the 12 months preceding October 1, 2022, 179 manuscripts were submitted to Weed Science compared with 197 and 222 for 2021 and 2020, respectively. We are concerned about the drop in submissions and are actively searching for solutions. Of the manuscripts submitted, 69.8% were accepted compared with 68.2% the previous year. The time from submission to first decision was 40.7 days this past year compared with 38.5 days for the previous year.

The impact factor for Weed Science decreased slightly from 2.713 to 2.580 for this past year and the 5-year impact factor decreased from 2.868 to 2.818. Although down a bit, the journal is still near a record-high impact factor.

For the year preceding October 1, 2022, the journal depended on 233 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 2022.

Editorial Board 2022

Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan

Nicholas Basinger

Nathan Boyd

Caio Brunharo

Ian Burke

Carlene Chase

Bhagirath Chauhan

Sharon Clay

Timothy L. Grey

Erin Haramoto

Prashant Jha

Mithila Jugulam

Vipan Kumar

Ramon Leon

Gulshan Mahajan

Sara Martin

Chris Preston

Dean Riechers

Hilary Sandler

Debalin Sarangi

Patrick J. Tranel

Te-Ming Paul Tseng

Martin M. Williams II

Weed Science Reviewers 2022

Albert Adjesiwor

Sharif Ahmed

Alla Aleksanyan

Edith B. Allen

Vijaya Bhaskar Alwarnaidu Vijayarajan

Rouhollah Amini

Nicholas Arneson

Matt Anthony Bahm

Shawn Askew

James Baird

Ali Ahsan Bajwa

Mohamed Balah

Suma Basak

Carol Baskin

Pawan Basnet

Shawn C. Beam

Roger L. Becker

Mark Lee Bernards

Matthew Bertucci

Thierry E. Besançon

Mandy Danielle Bish

Lucas Kopecky Bobadilla

Louis Gregory Boddy

Christian Bohren

Melissa Brazier-Hicks

Simon Brooks

John Tyler Buol

Erin Burns

Manuel E. Camacho

Caio Antonio Carbonari

José Luiz Carvalho de Souza Dias

Andrea Cavalieri

Alexander R. Ceseski

Gurinderbir S. Chahal

Buddhika Sampath Chamara

Aman Chandi

Rakesh S. Chandran

Bruno Chauvel

Michael J. Christoffers

Jed B. Colquhoun

Nubia Maria Correia

Ivan Cuvaca

Caleb D. Dalley

Christos Damalas

Oleg Daugovish

Pratap Devkota

Katherine H. Diehl

Antonio DiTommaso

David Lee Dornbos Jr

Kayla Eason

Alyssa Essman

J. Connor Ferguson

Luiz Ferreira

Jason Ferrell

Michael L. Flessner

Karla Gage

Nalin Gama-Arachchige

Zahoor A. Ganie

Charles M. Geddes

Amar S. Godar

Rakesh Kumar Godara

Danica Goggin

Robin Gomez

Clebson G. Gonçalves

Greta Gramig

W. James Grichar

Dustin Haines

Devin Hammer

Steven C. Haring

Nick T. Harre

Howard Harrison

Marshall Hay

Gerald Matthew Henry

Jerri Lynn Henry

Erin C. Hill

Cynthia Huebner

Joseph T. Ikley

Lynn Ingegneri

Suphannika Intanon

Satoshi Iwakami

Katherine M. Jennings

Joe Johnson

Christine Kenter

Eshagh Keshtkar

Jin-Won Kim

Nicholas E. Korres

Martin Laforest

Christopher Allen Landau

Olivia Landau

Erik A. Lehnhoff

Meng Li

Steve Li

Matt Liebman

Ginger G. Light

John L. Lindquist

Rui Liu

Xiangying Liu

Carolyn J. Lowry

Drew Lyon

Rasool Mahdavi

Mohit Mahey

Mary Catherine Martin

Joseph H. Massey

Maor Matzrafi

Cara L. McCauley

Joseph Scott McElroy

Andrew G. McKenzie-Gopsill

Mohsen B. Mesgaran

Muhamad Shakirin Mispan

David Monks

Dawn Elise Mooney

Marcelo L. Moretti

Brent Murphy

Richard Napier

Paul Neve

Dennis Calvin Odero

Sara Ohadi

Maxwel Coura Oliveira

Nawaporn Onkokesung

A. Onofri

O. Adewale Osipitan

Eric Robert Page

Lang Pan

Balaji Pandian

Eric Patterson

Ronald Edward Peachey

Thomas Peters

Kristina Polziehn

Timothy S. Prather

Jamal R. Qasem

Emilie E. Regnier

Manuel Reigosa

Marzieh Rezaei

Leonardo F. Rocha

Jonne Rodenburg

Marvin E. Ruffner

Debalina Saha

Ravneet Kaur Sandhu

Bishwa Sapkota

Bradley Sartain

Margot Schulz

Lauren M. Schwartz-Lazaro

Shaun Michael Sharpe

David R. Shaw

Lovreet Singh Shergill

Chandrima Shyam

David Simpson

Mandeep Singh

Vijay Singh

Daniel H. Smith

Stephen Smith

Gayle J. Somerville

Yao-Bin Song

Lynn Sosnoskie

Benjamin Patrick Sperry

Kurt Spokas

Shandrea Stallworth

Tracy M. Sterling

Emily Stratford

Harry John Strek

Seth A. Strom

Nithya Subramanian

Hudson K. Takano

Mark Thorne

Olivia Todd

Ilias S. Travlos

Roman Boris Vercellino

John M. Wallace

Sarah Ward

Anna Westbrook

James H. Westwood

Scott Neil White

Alice Ann Wright

Dong-Hong Wu

Ramawatar Yadav

Inacio Yano

Carla Yerkes

Jialin Yu

Mauricio Zanovello Schuster

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