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The End of the Beginning
The publication of Volume I, Number 1 of M&SOM marks the end of a process that began more than three years ago: a process whose goal was to create the premier journal in Operations Management. I will leave it to you, the reader of 1:1, to decide whether or not we have been successful "right out of the blocks" or if more issues must be published before we can rightfully claim to have succeeded. But we will suceed. I am committed to it. So are the distinguished group of Senior Editors and the esteemed members of M&SOM's Editorial Review Board, whose names are, and will remain, prominently featured in every issue. And most important, so are the authors who have submitted their manuscripts to us.
The Beginning of the End
M&SOM is committed not merely to providing highquality reviews, but to providing high-quality, short cycle-time reviews to authors of submitted manuscripts. "They" said it couldn't be done. My reply was that if a journal in Operations Management couldn't do it, then frankly, we should be ashamed of ourselves. So, with lots of help from others, I constructed a review process with elements of both high technology and plain old tender loving care. Details are available at our website. See below.
The results are fairly astonishing. M&SOM's average review cycle time for all manuscripts submitted to date is 38.3 working days. Our maximum review cycle time is 111 days (and...