From the Editor

As I noted in my first editorial, I aim to reduce the time it takes us to review submissions. 1 Now that it's been more than a year since I took over as Editor, we have some statistics indicating success.As table 1 shows, the proportion of manuscripts receiving a decision within two months has nearly tripled, jumping from 30.4 percent in 2023 to 85.1 percent in 2024.Additionally, the proportion of manuscripts taking over three months to receive a decision has dropped precipitously from 43.2 percent in 2023 to only 6.8 percent in 2024.So, many more manuscripts are receiving decisions within two months, while only a small percentage are receiving decisions after three or more months.The other statistics that we've collected are also positive.Table 2 shows that the total number of manuscripts received has increased from 482 in 2023 to 654 in 2024.And table 3 shows that whereas only 23 of the 482 manuscripts received in 2023 (i.e., 4.8 percent) got a revise-andresubmit verdict, 53 of the 654 manuscripts received in 2024 (i.e., 8.1 percent) got that verdict.So, we've been receiving more manuscripts, and a higher percentage of them are getting past the first hurdle.This is good considering that, unlike many journals, we have no backlog of accepted papers waiting to be published.In any case, it looks like the two things that I've been doing to speed up the review process are working.First, I've reduced the time for the initial vetting by me, the Editor, to a matter of days.Second, I've been spreading the workload across the associate editors more evenly in the hopes that this will minimize the instances in which any of them accumulate