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Previous articleNext article FreeFrom the EditorsJulia Driver and Connie RosatiJulia Driver Search for more articles by this author and Connie Rosati Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreWe hope that 2022 was a good year for all of our contributors, reviewers, and readers. Once again, we would like to thank our associate editors for their painstaking work for Ethics, as well as our graduate student editorial assistants, Karolina Winiewska (University of Arizona), Matthew Vermaire (University of Texas at Austin), and Sara Purinton (University of Pennsylvania), for their important work. Our outstanding managing editor, Joe Muszynski, continues to keep the editors and the journal on track.In the past year, we have had a number of changes in personnel. Karolina is stepping down from Ethics. Matt has successfully defended his dissertation and will be moving on to a postdoctoral fellowship in epistemology at the University of Glasgow. We wish him great success as he begins his academic career. Four of our associate editors have also stepped down. Our deep thanks to Sally Haslanger, whose presence among our editors encouraged many authors who might not otherwise have considered Ethics to send their work our way and who diligently shepherded many submissions through our review process. Thanks also to Japa Pallikkathayil for her invaluable contributions to the journal and to Serena Olseretti and David Shoemaker for their many years of outstanding service. We are delighted to welcome Jacob Nebel, Daniel Viehoff, and Tom Dougherty as associate editors and look forward to being joined by Fiona Woollard, Gunnar Björnsson, and Elizabeth Brake later in the year.The two of us will also be stepping down once the University of Chicago Press has found new editors for Ethics. We have greatly enjoyed and learned from our time with the journal, first as associate editors for eleven years, and then as editors-in-chief for another five years.In 2022, Ethics received 510 submissions. The initial screening process has continued to take longer than optimal, and we continue to experience some difficulty finding reviewers. But we are working to speed up the screening process and to eliminate the delays we have had over the past year (see tables 1, 2, and 3).Table 1. Time to Decision as of April 27, 2023, on Submissions in the 2021 and 2022 CohortsTotal<1 Mo.1–2 Mos.2–3 Mos.3–4 Mos.4–5 Mos.5–6 Mos.>6 Mos.Stage2021202220212022202120222021202220212022202120222021202220212022AcceptedOriginal manuscript accepted as is or with minor revisions3300000020001003Acceptance of 1st resubmission 5010200000101000Acceptance of 2nd resubmission 6000202010100000Acceptance of 3rd resubmission 1000000010000000Acceptance of 4th resubmission 1000001000000000RejectedOriginal manuscript rejected without invitation to resubmit507463451219466201135331182286935311Original manuscript rejected with invitation to resubmit32170033408213543041st revision rejected without invitation to resubmit66103220010101011st revision rejected with invitation to resubmit152316031300000002nd revision rejected without invitation to resubmit10000000000010002nd revision rejected with invitation to resubmit10100000000000003rd revision rejected without invitation to resubmit20000000200000003rd revision rejected with invitation to resubmit1000001000000000 Total5814915113210712141365012137921639319 Percent1001008.82.636.114.536.827.78.624.66.418.72.87.90.53.9Note. Each cohort includes all original articles and discussion pieces that were originally submitted in that calendar year. Data include each decision on all manuscripts in the 2021 and 2022 cohorts—in their original form and any subsequent revisions—irrespective of the year in which the decision was reached or the year in which the revised version of the paper was submitted. For this reason, the total number of decisions for each cohort is greater than the total number of submissions in that cohort.View Table ImageTable 2. Current Status of Manuscripts in the 2021 and 2022 CohortsCurrent Status20212022 NumberPercentageNumberPercentageAccepted162.930.5Rejected5279646791.6No final decision (with author)10.271.4No final decision (under review)20.4254.9Withdrawn30.581.6 Total549100510100View Table ImageTable 3. Invitations to Resubmit for Manuscripts in the 2021 and 2022 CohortsMSS That Received an Invitation to Resubmit20212022Original MS rejected with invitation to resubmit3117MSS resubmitted once before final decision114MSS resubmitted twice before final decision70MSS resubmitted more than twice before final decision40View Table ImageThe acceptance rate for Ethics remains low, but our reviewers regularly provide insightful feedback to assist authors in revising their work, whether or not it is finally accepted. We encourage submission of original work on a variety of topics in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of law and in a variety of styles.Our thanks once again to everyone who keeps Ethics running behind the scenes. And thanks to all of the authors who trust us with reviewing their submissions, as well as the reviewers who help our authors to develop the important work that ultimately appears in our pages. 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