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1 January 2016 Editorial for Weed Science, Volume 64
William K. Vencill
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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 year, Weed Science will publish a special issue of Weed Science from presenters at the WSSA Herbicide Resistance Summit II.

For the 12 mo preceding September 1, 2015, 211 manuscripts were submitted to Weed Science, compared to 208 in the previous 12-mo period. Of the manuscripts accepted, 44.3% were accepted, compared to 40.8% the previous year. The time from submission to first decision was 44 d this past year compared to 45 d for the previous year.

Table 1 shows the Impact Factor and Article Influence Score for Weed Science and other related journals for 2014. The impact factor for Weed Science increased from 1.687 to 1.870 this past reporting cycle, whereas the 5-yr impact factor increased from to 1.928 from 1.835. I believe the latest impact factor and the five-year impact factor are the best the journal has ever had.

Table 1.

Impact factor of Weed Science and comparable journals in 2014 (2012 Journal Citation Report 2015).

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For the year preceding September 1, 2015, the journal depended on 283 unique reviewers from 34 countries for peer review. 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 2015.

Editorial Board 2015

  • Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan

  • Bhagirath Chauhan

  • Sharon Clay

  • Adam Davis

  • Franck E. Dayan

  • J. Anita Dille

  • Timothy L. Grey

  • Amy Lawton-Rauh

  • John L. Lindquist

  • Vijay Nandula

  • Chris Preston

  • Dean Riechers

  • Hilary Sandler

  • Steven Seefeldt

  • Patrick J. Tranel

  • Theodore Webster

  • Martin M. Williams, II

Weed Science Reviewers 2015

  • Seth Abugho

  • Steve Adkins

  • Kassim Al-Khatib

  • Phil S. Allen

  • James E. Altland

  • Pedro Luis da Costa Aguiar Alves

  • Lars W. J. Anderson

  • Christian Andreasen

  • Andre Andres

  • Renee S. Arias

  • Gregory R. Armel

  • Jamshid Ashigh

  • Valentina Atanackovic

  • Carol Auer

  • Albert O. Ayeni

  • Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan

  • Rodrigo Baggio

  • Elizabeth Baggs

  • Daniel A. Ball

  • Sanjeev K. Bangarwa

  • Mohammad T. Bararpour

  • Mary Barbercheck

  • John Barbur

  • Jacob Barney

  • Michael Barrett

  • Chhandak Basu

  • Diego Batlla

  • Todd A. Baughman

  • Hugh J. Beckie

  • Roland Beffa

  • Michael Scott Bell

  • Robin R. Bellinder

  • Regina Belz

  • Roberto Benech-Arnold

  • Diane Lyse Benoit

  • Stafano Benvenuti

  • Therese Berge

  • Mark Lee Bernards

  • Thierry Eric Besancon

  • Prasanta Bhowmik

  • Henrique von Hertwig Bittencourt

  • Thomas Bjorkman

  • Jason K. Blackburn

  • Robert E. Blackshaw

  • Amy C. Blair

  • Walter Bleeker

  • David C. Blouin

  • Chris M. Boerboom

  • Jason Bond

  • George Botha

  • Peter Boutsalis

  • Nathan S. Boyd

  • Rick A. Boydston

  • Kevin W. Bradley

  • Daniel Brainard

  • Lars Olav Brandsæter

  • Inge Broer

  • Chad L. Brommer

  • James T. Brosnan

  • Nilda R. Burgos

  • Ian C. Burke

  • James D. Burton

  • Roberto Busi

  • John Dukes Byrd

  • Ana Caicedo

  • Ragan Callaway

  • Edinalvo Camargo

  • Charles Cantrell

  • John Cardina

  • Luke Thomas Case

  • Jane Catford

  • Jason Cathcart

  • Demosthenis Chachalis

  • Gurinderbir S. Chahal

  • Rakesh S. Chandran

  • Lindsay Chaney

  • Raghavan Charudattan

  • Carlene A. Chase

  • Jun Chen

  • Nick E. Christians

  • Michael J. Christoffers

  • Pedro Jacob Christoffoleti

  • Benjamin Clasen

  • Daniel Clements

  • Daniel C. Cloutier

  • Vanessa Coats

  • Ronald Collins

  • Jed B. Colquhoun

  • Amy Concilio

  • Jeffery Sam Conn

  • Warren Conway

  • Daniel Cook

  • Michael C. Cox

  • Nancy G. Creamer

  • Roberto J. Crespo

  • Hugo Cruz-Hipolito

  • A. Stanley Culpepper

  • William Stevenson Curran

  • John Cussans

  • Mark Andrew Czarnota

  • Caleb D. Dalley

  • Christos Damalas

  • Henri Darmency

  • T. K. Das

  • Joseph Dauer

  • Vince M. Davis

  • Hans de Kroon

  • Rafael Alberto De Prado Amian

  • Ignacio Dellaferrera

  • Christophe Delye

  • Rafael DePrado

  • Jeffrey F. Derr

  • Julia Detering

  • Giovanni Dinelli

  • Joseph M. DiTomaso

  • Katrina M. Dlugosch

  • Douglas J. Doohan

  • Peter A. Dotray

  • John Doudna

  • Emily B. M. Drummond

  • Susan Dudley

  • Stephen Duke

  • Ryan James Edwards

  • John Franklin Egan

  • Hanan Eizenberg

  • Ilias George Eleftherohorinos

  • Mohamed M. El-Hawary

  • Norman C. Ellstrand

  • Jonathan E. Ephrath

  • Dieter Ernst

  • Thomas William Eubank

  • Wesley J. Everman

  • Robert Faden

  • Muhammad Farooq

  • Brandon Fast

  • Joel Felix

  • Steven A. Fennimore

  • Diego Omar Ferraro

  • Jason Ferrell

  • Rodrigo Figueroa

  • Bill Finch-Savage

  • Albert Fischer

  • Michael Luke Flessner

  • Michael E. Foley

  • Frank Forcella

  • Antonio Franco

  • Andrew Friskop

  • George Frisvold

  • E. Patrick Fuerst

  • Todd A. Gaines

  • Robert Sean Gallagher

  • Eric R. Gallandt

  • Melinda A. Gammon

  • Travis W. Gannon

  • John Gaskin

  • David Gealy

  • Roland Gerhards

  • Lyn Gettys

  • Claudio Marco Ghersa

  • Darci Giacomini

  • Kevin D. Gibson

  • Gurjeet S. Gill

  • Thomas K. Gitsopoulos

  • Rakesh Kumar Godara

  • Yaakov Goldwasser

  • Robin Gomez

  • Mustapha Gorai

  • Greta Gramig

  • Fabio Gresta

  • W. James Grichar

  • James L. Griffin

  • Arthur Grube

  • Andrea C. Grundy

  • Jeffrey L. Gunsolus

  • Aaron G. Hager

  • Bradley D. Hanson

  • Stuart Patrick Hardegree

  • Chrisopher Hardy

  • K. Neil Harker

  • Timothy Brian Harrington

  • Harlene Mae Hatterman-Valenti

  • Ian Heap

  • A. Heggenstaller

  • Michal Hejcman

  • Juan Manuel Herrera

  • Melissa J. Hills

  • Jodie S. Holt

  • Alois Honek

  • David P. Horvath

  • Anikó Horváth

  • Jared Adam Hoyle

  • Pierre Hucl

  • Cynthia Huebner

  • Andrew G. Hulting

  • Lynn Ingegneri

  • James Stuart Jacobs

  • Marie A. Jasieniuk

  • Prashant Jha

  • Amit J. Jhala

  • William G. Johnson

  • David L. Jordan

  • Mithila Jugulam

  • Miroslav Jursík

  • Laila Monika Karlsson

  • Shiv Kaundun

  • George Ogada Kegode

  • Karen Kennedy

  • Jon King

  • Andrew Robert Kniss

  • Suk Jin Koo

  • Nicholas E. Korres

  • Hansjoerg Kraehmer

  • Per Kudsk

  • Yong In Kuk

  • Sarah Lancaster

  • Bridget Robinson Lassiter

  • Ryan M. Lee

  • Deirdre Lemerle

  • Ramon G. Leon

  • Xiao Li

  • Matt Liebman

  • Ginger G. Light

  • Richard Bradley Lindenmayer

  • Rick S. Llewellyn

  • Hsu LM

  • Martin Anderson Locke

  • Louis Longchamps

  • Mark M. Loux

  • Stella Lovelli

  • Jon Lundgren

  • Mark Lundy

  • Rodney Lym

  • Drew Lyon

  • Kelly G. Lyons

  • Rong Ma

  • Gregory MacDonald

  • John D. Madsen

  • Gulshan Mahajan

  • Mayank S. Malik

  • Carol A. Mallory-Smith

  • M. A. Susan Marles

  • Michelle C. Marra

  • Michael W. Marshall

  • Zdenka Martinkova

  • John Masiunas

  • Dario Massa

  • Joseph H. Massey

  • Hannah Mary Mathers

  • Bruce D. Maxwell

  • Robert J. Mayer

  • Lambert B. McCarty

  • William B. McCloskey

  • Patrick E. McCullough

  • James D. McCurdy

  • Joseph Scott McElroy

  • Patrick McMullan

  • Bo Melander

  • Fabian Daniel Menalled

  • Mohsen Beheshtian Mesgaran

  • Stephen L. Meyers

  • Menghe Miao

  • Albrecht Michel

  • Lindsey Milbrath

  • Timothy W. Miller

  • Steven B. Mirsky

  • Paul Mitchell

  • Jorgelina Ceferina Montoya

  • Peter Morrell

  • John Bradley Morris

  • David Mortensen

  • Chris Mudge

  • Thomas C. Mueller

  • George W. Mueller-Warrant

  • Joseph C. Neal

  • Michael D. Netherland

  • Paul Neve

  • Mathieu Ngouajio

  • Robert L. Nichols

  • Yuki Niinomi

  • Scott Jay Nissen

  • Jason K. Norsworthy

  • James Oard

  • Dennis Calvin Odero

  • Junichi Okuno

  • Micheal D. K. Owen

  • Fernando Lania Pagbilao

  • David Pannell

  • Aaron Patton

  • William Louis Patzoldt

  • Ronald Edward Peachey

  • Sally Peltzer Peltzer

  • Alejandro Perez-Jones

  • Lora B. Perkins

  • Dallas E. Peterson

  • Ronald Pierik

  • Angela R. Post

  • Karina Potter

  • Lauren Poulos

  • Stephen B. Powles

  • Timothy S. Prather

  • Andrew Jennings Price

  • Atul Puri

  • Petr Pysek

  • Irena Rajcan

  • Neha Rana

  • Corey V. Ransom

  • Chittaranjan Ray

  • Chris Reberg-Horton

  • Jordi Recasens

  • Jacob Reed

  • Emilie E. Regnier

  • Karen A. Renner

  • Mark J. Renz

  • Dilpreet Singh Riar

  • Daniela Ribeiro

  • Claire Richard

  • Melissa Riley

  • Matt Rinella

  • Christopher Rosinger

  • Baruch Rubin

  • Matthew Ryan

  • Robert Douglas Sammons

  • Bielinski M. Santos

  • Norbert Satchivi

  • Maurizio Sattin

  • Laura Scarabel

  • Peter Scharf

  • Brian E Scheffler

  • Jill Schroeder

  • Brian J. Schutte

  • Steven S. Seefeldt

  • Brent A. Sellers

  • Scott A. Senseman

  • Yasser M. Shabana

  • Dale L. Shaner

  • David R. Shaw

  • Andy W. Sheppard

  • S. J. Shirtliffe

  • Vinod K. Shivrain

  • Eli Shlevin

  • Douglas Edward Shoup

  • Anil Shrestha

  • Peter H. Sikkema

  • Nerka Silingis

  • Marie-Josee Simard

  • Chris Sinclair

  • Brian M. Sindel

  • Samunder Singh

  • Joshua Skelton

  • Reid J. Smeda

  • Richard G. Smith

  • Upender R. Somireddy

  • Zhizhong Song

  • Lynn Sosnoskie

  • Josef Soukup

  • Kurt Spokas

  • Christy L. Sprague

  • Kathryn Steadman

  • Lawrence E. Steckel

  • Daniel O. Stephenson, IV

  • Neal Stewart

  • John Stinchombe

  • David E. Stoltenberg

  • Robert Stougaard

  • Clarence J. Swanton

  • François J. Tardif

  • John Teasdale

  • Angela Tellez-Rio

  • David Thornby

  • Joel Torra

  • Joel Torra Farré

  • Hilmi Torun

  • Eric Tozzi

  • Ilias S. Travlos

  • Shane Turner

  • Hiroshi Uchino

  • Mahesh K. Upadhyaya

  • Rene Van Acker

  • Marcel van der Heijden

  • Laura Carol Van Riper

  • Johannes van Staden

  • Mark VanGessel

  • Vijay Varanasi

  • Martin Miguel Vila-Aiub

  • Eric Visser

  • Dean S. Volenberg

  • George Vourlitis

  • Maurizio Vurro

  • Michael Walsh

  • Guang-Xi Wang

  • Sarah Ward

  • Mark A. Weaver

  • Glenn Wehtje

  • Martin Weis

  • Stephen C. Weller

  • Rodrigo Werle

  • Paula Westerman

  • Leslie Ann Weston

  • James H. Westwood

  • Timothy Lee Widmer

  • Christian J. Willenborg

  • Bill J. Williams

  • Sam E. Wortman

  • Marcos Ezequiel Yanniccari

  • Fred H. Yelverton

  • Joe Yenish

  • Melinda Yerka

  • Carla Yerkes

  • Yasuyuki Yoshimura

  • Bryan G. Young

  • Qin Yu

  • Lewis H. Ziska

  • Richard Zollinger

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© 2016 Weed Science Society of America
William K. Vencill "Editorial for Weed Science, Volume 64," Weed Science 64(1), 1-5, (1 January 2016). https://doi.org/10.1614/WS-D-15-Editorial.1
Published: 1 January 2016
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