Editors’ Report 2016

• Date: 01 June 2017
• Published date: 01 June 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12218

Editors’Report 2016

1. Changes in Editors

Paul Jensen is relinquishing his position as

Co-editor of The Australian Economic Review

and Editor of the Data Survey section. He will

be replaced in 2017 as Co-editor by Chris Ryan.

Responsibility for the data surveys will be handed

to John Haisken-DeNew. Efrem Castelnuovo

will become the Policy Forum Editor.

2. Articles and Submissions

The Review’s established format of invited

articles, contributed articles, a policy forum, a

data survey and a section ‘For the Student’

were continued in 2016. Readership continues

to grow, especially in Asia. Annual full-text

downloads are around 80,000, with 40 per cent

from overseas. The Thomson Reuter Impact

factor has risen to 0.552. The review of the

Australian economy, published annually in

the March issue, continues to engender high

downloads. The Policy Forum articles also

enjoy high readership. They covered: the

macroeconomic consequences of macropru-

dential policies; research and innovation;

housing policy; and the economics of ageing.

A summary of the compositionof the articles

published in the Review over the past 3 years is

given in Table 1. Table 2 provides information

on the number of articles received and their

disposition. Submissions to the Contributed

Articles section increased by 10 per cent to 58

in 2016. The increase was not matched by

acceptance rates, as more submissions were

received from overseas authors and these were

often too narrow infocus for the Review.While

we welcome submissions from international

authors,it is our intention that theReview remain

a policy-oriented journal with particular rele-

vance to Australia and the Asia-Pacif‌ic region.

For submissions over the 3 year period

2014–2016, the acceptance rate on papers for

which a decision has been reached was 22 per

cent. Submissions which are outside the aims

of the journal or clearly do not meet the

required standard are rejected by the editors

without going to referees: this applied to 31

per cent of submissions over the 3 years

2014–2016. As bef‌its a policy-oriented journal,

we aim to keep the time between acceptance of

articles and f‌inal publication in an issue of the

journal to around 6 months. The current

backlog of accepted articles awaiting publica-

tion represents two issues.

3. Referees

At least two refereesare used for submissions of

contributedpapers that proceed to the refereeing

Table 1 Published Articles, 2014–2016

Type of article 2014 2015 2016

Invited Article 2 2 3

Contributed Article 14 15 14

Policy Forum 21 21 18

Data Survey 4 4 4

For the Student 4 4 4

Number of pages 580 452 524

Table 2 Outcomes of Submissions of

Contributed Articles, 2014–2016

Contributed papers 2014 2015 2016

Brought forward from

the previous year 25 23 16

New submissions

during the year 53 52 58

Total 78 75 74

Decisions made

Published 14 14 14

Accepted: awaiting publication 6 7 7

Rejected/withdrawn 41 45 43

Awaiting revision 9 6 6

In process 8 3 4

Total 78 75 74

The Australian Economic Review, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 251–2

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