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).

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.
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