Ringing the changes: editorial

Abstract

We have mostly cleared the backlog in reviewing since I took over editorship in June 2012. The paper longest under review published in this issue was submitted on 27 September 2012. The paper that had the shortest time to publication was submitted on 4 April 2013. We will continue to try to speed up publication. To do so, we need quality papers that need minimal changes after review, and I urge anyone wanting to help speed up the process to volunteer to review. The workload is not high, and the reward of helping your fellow academics to improve their work is worth it in itself - and my experience is that reviewing the work of others improves my own writing. The papers longest in the publication queue now are papers where the authors have been invited to make substantial changes after review, and have as yet not submitted a revision.