Journal of Petrology Volume 42 Number 1 Pages 1 2001
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Editorial 2001
This first issue of 2001 contains a thematic set of papers on Orogenic Lherzolites and Mantle Processes, which grew out of a workshop of the same name held in Pavia, Italy, from 12 to 15 September 1999. The issue was co-edited by members of the Scientific Steering Committee of the workshop, to whom I offer my thanks for all of their hard work in producing an extremely interesting set of papers.Submission of manuscripts to the Journal remains buoyant and far in excess of the number of papers we can actually publish each year. Inevitably, this means disappointment for some authors. In general, throughout 2000, we attained our target of ensuring that papers were published within 6–8 months of receipt of the final revised version of the manuscript. This is comparable with our competitor journals in the field of petrology. The production of thematic issues does, unavoidably, add an additional delay of a month to the publication date of some papers. For this reason we do not normally publish more than one such issue per year.
Electronic publishing, via the Internet, continues to advance at an ever-accelerating pace. Our World Wide Web site has been extremely popular, providing readers whose institutions subscribe to the Journal unlimited access to electronic text versions of Journal articles, downloadable to their PC in both PDF and HTML formats. Most authors are now providing their complete datasets in downloadable spreadsheet format (Excel) for publication on the Web site. We are currently testing the software for direct electronic submission of manuscripts and hope to offer this service to authors as soon as possible in 2001.
In our continuing attempt to encourage authors to publish colour figures we have retained our page charge costs for colour at the lowest rate of any Earth Science journal (currently £100 per page). Furthermore, at no additional cost, authors can publish full-colour photomicrographs and figures on the Journal of Petrology WWW site to accompany the electronic text version of their paper.
Finally, on behalf of the Editorial Board, I would like to thank all of those of you in the petrological community world-wide who reviewed manuscripts for the Journal in 2000. This is an onerous task, given the size of a typical JOP manuscript, but a vital one if we are to maintain the quality of peer review. I also express my sincere thanks to the members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards for all their hard work on behalf of the Journal, and, of course, to the many authors who continue to send us their very best science. On the basis of the latest ISI citation ratings (1999), the Journal continues to maintain its position as one of the leading journals in the field of petrology. I am confident that it will continue to do so.
In September 1999 Pam Stuart resigned from her role as Editorial Assistant to take up a new full-time position in the Library at Leeds University. Pam and I started together with the Journal and her work over the past 6 years has been invaluable to all of us. I am sure everyone will join me in wishing her every success in her new post.
Alastair Lumsden, whose contact details you will see on the inside of the front cover, has now taken over as Editorial Assistant.
Marjorie Wilson
Executive Editor
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