EDITORIAL
Editor: Russeii F. Christman Associate Editor: Charles R. O'Melia WASHINGTON EDiTORlAL STAFF Managing Editor: Stanton S. Miller Associate Editor: Juiian Josephson Assistant Editor: Lois R. Ember MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING Manager: Katherine I . Biggs Assistant Editor: David Hanson MANUSCRIPT EDITING Associate Production Manager: Charlotte C. Sayre Assistant Editor: Gloria L. Dinote GRAPHiCS AND PRODUCTION Production Manager: Leroy L. Corcoran Art Director: Norman Favin Artist: Diane J. Reich
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The air, water imbalance Many of the readers of ES& T share my concern regarding the imbalance in the number of air and water articles in our Current Research section. This concern has prompted us to review the annual manuscript flow statistics since the inception of the journal in 1967. A few facts will describe our present position. First, the total number of manuscript receipts has gradually increased over the first eighf years of publication from 198 in 1967 to over 250 in 1974. Second, through 1971 the number of air articles received was only 7 % greater than the number of water articles. Since 1972, however, we received 26% more air manuscripts than water manuscripts. Throughout the history of the journal the number of miscellaneous manuscripts received has remained relatively constant at 20% of the total. This imbalanced input has been further aggravated by a difference in the average rejection rates for air and water manuscripts of 40 % and 54 % , respectively. The result of all this is that an average monthly issue of the journal contains approximately five research articles devoted to air, three to water, and one to other subject matter. It is obviously dangerous to speculate on the causes of these differences but it is our editorial intention to correct them as soon as possible. The stated editorial policy of the journal remains as printed in each June issue. We are devoted to the publication of contributed and critically reviewed papers in the fields of water, air, and waste chemistry, and in other scientific and technical fields related to the understanding and management of the quality of our air, water, and land environments. We will be able to adjust the month-to-month balance to more equitable levels via the appropriate selection of available manuscripts, but in the long run, we will need the help of our readers in increasing the input of water-oriented manuscripts to €S& T.
For offices and advertisers, see page 1094 Please send research manuscripts to Manuscript Reviewing, feature manuscripts to Managing Editor. For author's guige and editorial pollcy,see June 197Sissue. page 547, or write Katherine I. Biggs. Manuscript Reviewing Office. €S&T
Volume 9, Number 12, November 1975
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