JIRS Editorial, 4th Quarter 2025

One more calendar year comes to an end.The issue at hand marks the 4th and last quarterly issue of 2025.It also marks a somewhat 'bumpy transition' to the new review system we now use for paper reviews.Granted, there are still about 45 under review papers in the (old) Editorial Manager (EM), however, we believe that we will bring closure to the EM within the next 6 months.An encouraging observation after the 'transition' of our Journal to a peer review Open Access publication, is that the number of submissions increases, slowly, but steadily!WE are confident that we will reach, soon, previous submission levels, topping 1300 + per year!Moreover, from our side, we make every effort to speed up the review process, albeit challenges related to reviewer fatigue, timing restrictions to submit reviews, etc.Let us face it: there are so many journals and 'journals' and each one of us receives so many emails, daily, to review papers, such that it is no surprise if such emails are basically ignored -period!Regardless, please look for the 'meaningful email' sent from the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems and do process the papers in your queue.We count on your help to make our Journal better.I thank each one of you, authors, reviewers,