Parting thoughts of the past transactions editor

Over the three years during which I was Editor of the AP Transactions, I periodically reported to the AdCom the state of the journal, in the form of statistical data concerning papers in process. Now that I have handed off the editorial responsibilities to our new Editor, Bob McIntosh, and have had time to catch up a bit on my othear activities, I thought it might be interest to the readership of the Newsletter if I were to briefly review this statistical data. Early in my term, we began to keep track of the number of equivalent journal pages currently at each stage of the publication process. Later, additional parameters were added to the report, including review time and total processing time, as well as the distribution of submissions over the various subject areas. Thus, in attempting to summarize the three years of data, I have had to accommodate some gaps where data was not tracked. However, for the most part the three-year picture is fairly complete.