Published by Oxford University Press 2007.
Editor's Report for 2006
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Once again in 2006, manuscript submissions to Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) were up and the acceptance rate was down and that trend continued into 2007. Prior to electronic publishing, MBE was typically receiving 350–450 manuscripts per year. We received 729 manuscripts in 2004, 801 in 2005, and 880 in 2006 (fig. 1). MBE published 237 papers (2,376 pages) in 2004, corresponding to an acceptance rate of 33%. In 2005, we published 256 papers (2,552 pages) at an acceptance rate of 32%. In 2006, we published 246 papers (2,532 pages) at an acceptance rate of 28%. In 2006, over