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 is seeking to publish more reviews and symposium articles. This past year, a special issue on herbicide resistance was published. In the near future, Weed Science will have another special edition on research methods in weed science.
For the 12 months preceding September 1, 2012, 210 manuscripts were submitted to Weed Science compared to 198 in the previous twelve-month period. Of these manuscripts, 47% were accepted compared to 58% the previous year. The time from submission to first decision was 54 d this past yr compared to 58 d for the previous yr and the time from submission to final decision was 89 d. As a comparison, the time from submission to first decision for Weed Research was 77d in 2011 and the time from submission to final decision was 168 d. Table 1 shows the Impact Factor for Weed Science and other related journals for 2010 and aggregated over the past five years.
Table 1.
Impact factor of Weed Science and comparable journals in 2010 (2010 Journal Citation Report, 2012).
For the year preceding September 1, 2012, the journal depended on 335 reviews of whom 123 were unique. The fact that Weed Science reviewers were from 36 countries underscores the international reach of the journal. 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 2012.
Editorial Board 2012
Wun S. Chao
Sharon Clay
Adam Davis
Franck E. Dayan
William E. Dyer
John Gaskin
Timothy L. Grey
John L. Lindquist
Stephen Murphy
Vijay Nandula
Chris Preston
Dean Riechers
Hilary Sandler
Steven Seefeldt
Patrick J. Tranel
Sarah Ward
Martin M. Williams II
Weed Science Reviewers, November 16, 2011–November 15, 2012
Maria Rosa Abenavoli
Irshad Ahmad
Elizabeth Ainsworth
Kassim Al-Khatib
Pedro Luis da Costa Aguiar Alves
Randy L. Anderson
Andre Andres
Renee S. Arias
Jamshid Ashigh
Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan
Luke D. Bainard
Daniel A. Ball
Thomas George Barnes
Michael Barrett
Carol Baskin
Fernando Bastida
Daizy Rani Batish
Hugh J. Beckie
Faith Belanger
Regina Belz
Prasanta Bhowmik
Dimitrios J. Bilalis
Robert E. Blackshaw
Rick A. Boydston
Daniel Brainard
Barry J. Brecke
James T. Brosnan
Charles T. Bryson
Bekir Bukun
Nilda R. Burgos
Ian C. Burke
James D. Burton
Michael Burton
Roberto Busi
Richard Carter
Raghavan Charudattan
Bhagirath Singh Chauhan
David Chikoye
Michael J. Christoffers
Warren Conway
Roger David Cousens
William Cox
Roberto J. Crespo
William Stevenson Curran
Mark Andrew Czarnota
Caleb D. Dalley
Henri Darmency
Joseph Dauer
Vince M. Davis
Rafael Alberto De Prado Amian
Carla A. Delatorre
Christophe Delye
Jeffrey F. Derr
Mike Dodd
David Lee Dornbos Jr.
Emily B. M. Drummond
Tom Dudley
Stephen Duke
Hanan Eizenberg
Ilias George Eleftherohorinos
Stephen F. Enloe
Joel Felix
Paul C. C. Feng
Rodrigo Figueroa
Albert Fischer
Michael E. Foley
Frank Forcella
Todd A. Gaines
Eric R. Gallandt
Travis W. Gannon
Aaron J. Gassman
David Gealy
Baerbel Gerowitt
Claudio Marco Ghersa
Kevin D. Gibson
Gurjeet S. Gill
Greta Gramig
J.D. Green
Jerry M. Green
James L. Griffin
Jeffrey L. Gunsolus
Aaron G. Hager
Linda Hall
Bradley D. Hanson
James L. Hanula
Stuart Patrick Hardegree
K. Neil Harker
Timothy Brian Harrington
Kent Harrison
Robert G. Hartzler
Abul Hashem
Michal Hejcman
Michal Hejcman
Juan Manuel Herrera
Melissa J. Hills
David C. Holly
Niels Holst
David P. Horvath
Jared Adam Hoyle
Cynthia Huebner
James Humphreys
Lynn Ingegneri
Claudia S. Ingham
James Stuart Jacobs
Marie A. Jasieniuk
Prashant Jha
William G. Johnson
David L. Jordan
Nicholas Royal Jordan
Shiv Kaundun
Robert N. Klein
Stevan Z. Knezevic
Andrew Robert Kniss
Trey Koger
Hansjorg Krahmer
Robert J. Kremer
Throup-Kristensen Kristian
Guy B. Kyser
Lawrence W. Lass
Amy Lawton-Rauh
Anne Legere
Ginger G. Light
Danny J. Llewellyn
P. J. W. Lutman
Kelly G. Lyons
Gregory MacDonald
John D. Madsen
Mayank S. Malik
Carol A Mallory-Smith
Stephen C. Marble
Michael W. Marshall
Joseph H. Massey
Marcus Matallo
Lambert B. McCarty
Alec McClay
Patrick E. McCullough
Rachel McFadyen
Bo Melander
Fabian Daniel Menalled
Charles L. Mohler
Mansour Montazeri
Don W. Morishita
Stephen D. Murphy
Pamela Nagler
Michael D. Netherland
Paul Neve
Mathieu Ngouajio
Hanwen Ni
Robert L. Nichols
Scott Jay Nissen
Robert Edward Nurse
Dennis Calvin Odero
John T. O'Donovan
Sara Ohadi
Loretta Ortiz-Ribbing
Mechelle J. Owen
Franklin Dane Panetta
Andrew Paterson
Aaron Patton
William Louis Patzoldt
Alejandro Perez-Jones
Dallas E. Peterson
Ronald Pierik
P J Pieterse
Pietro Piffanelli
Angela R. Post
Andrew Jennings Price
Jordi Recasens
Jacob Reed
Emilie E. Regnier
Dilpreet Riar
Jose Pedro N. Ribeiro
Cindy Sagers
Robert Douglas Sammons
Peter Scharf
Brian J. Schutte
Julio Alejandro Scursoni
Brent A. Sellers
Yasser M. Shabana
Dale L. Shaner
S. J. Shirtliffe
Vinod K. Shivrain
Anil Shrestha
Marie-Josee Simard
Samunder Singh
Grzegorz Skrzypczak
Reid J. Smeda
Richard G. Smith
Lynn M. Sosnoskie
Kurt Spokas
Phillip Stahlman
Tracy M. Sterling
Neal Stewart
Courtney Ann Stokes
David E. Stoltenberg
Lorraine Strathie
Jens Carl Streibig
Clarence J. Swanton
François J. Tardif
John Teasdale
Kirsten Torresen
Patrick Tranel
Ilias S. Travlos
Thomas Tworkoski
Ahmet Uludag
Jay G. Varshney
Steven F. Vaughn
Martin Miguel Vila-Aiub
Sarah Ward
Glenn Wehtje
Leslie Ann Weston
Philip Westra
James H. Westwood
Christian J. Willenborg
William Witt
David Yarborough
Joseph P. Yenish
Bryan G. Young
Lauren Young
Stephen L. Young
Dan Yu
Qin Yu
Bernard H. Zandstra
Ian A. Zelaya
Xin Zhang
Lewis H. Ziska
Richard Zollinger
Maria Zunino
