Published by Oxford University Press 2005.
Research Article |
Editor's Report for June, 2005
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In 2004, manuscript submissions to Molecular Biology and Evolution were up, the impact factor was up, and the acceptance rate was down. Prior to electronic publishing, MBE was typically receiving 350450 manucripts per year. We received 729 manuscripts in 2004 and the current projection is >800 for 2005 with a continued upward trend (fig. 1a and b). MBE published 239 papers (2,361 pages) in 2003, corresponding to an acceptance rate of 37%. In 2004, we published 238 papers (2,375