topics that our readers should be aware of. Proposals for specials are welcome and will be carefully considered. While the greatest number of submitted papers in a year occurred in 2004 Table 2 , since then the submissions have stayed in the neighborhood of 900 papers. Thatâs a lot of manuscripts! It means that I evaluate and assign Associate Editors to 18 papers every week. Whether this is good or bad, I cannot say. One of the cardinal rules of research publishing is that the author is free to send the paper to whatever journal will provide the best audience. So we have no control over the input. After dropping to below 50% acceptance rate in 2004, the ratio of accepted papers to those submitted rose dramatically to 63% in 2005 Table 3 . This past year the acceptance ratio is again below 50%. I believe this may be due to efforts by the Board of Editors to tighten the standards for acceptable papers. The introduction of evaluation criteria instead of numerical ratings has, I think, provided a more even-handed assessment of the submitted papers by reviewers. As with the regular submissions, the acceptance rate for OE Letters
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2007 in Review
O’Shea, Donald C.
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, Volume 47 (2)
SPIE – Feb 1, 2008
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