Editors’ Report 2020

• Published date: 01 June 2021
• Date: 01 June 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12421

The Australian Economic Review, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 306–307 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.12421

Editors’Report 2020

1. Articles and Submissions

The Review's established format of invited

articles, contributed articles, a policy forum

and a section for students was continued in

2020. The four issues of the Review in 2020

contained 42 articles across the various

categories. A summary of the composition of

the articles published in the past 3 years is

given in Table 1. Although the number of

published articles is relatively unchanged

from recent years, an increase in their average

length resulted in a 20 per cent increase in

total pages to 606.

Readership continues to grow, especially in

Asia. Annual full‐text downloads rose by

13 per cent to 112,000 with 60 per cent being

from outside Australia. The Impact factor

is 0.711.

New submissions of contributed articles

increased to 96. The acceptance rate for

submissions over the last 2 years was 15 per

cent. Table 2 provides detailed information on

the number of contributed articles received

and their disposition. Around 15 per cent of

submissions were from each of Australia,

China and India, with the other 55 per cent

coming from authors in 25 countries.

Submissions which are outside the aims of

the Review or which clearly do not meet the

required standard are rejected by the editors

without going to referees. Around 60 per cent

of articles were rejected in this way. This

enables a quick response to authors of

unsuitable papers and referees are spared

unnecessary work.

As befits a policy‐oriented journal, we aim

to keep the time between acceptance of

articles and final publication in an issue of

the Review to around 6 months. Furthermore,

the articles are publicly available on the

website much sooner via ‘early views’.

2. Referees

At least two referees are used for submissions

of all articles that proceed to the refereeing

process. The integrity of the system of peer

review is crucially dependent on the work of

our referees. We thank our referees warmly for

their contributions in providing constructive

comments, both to the authors and the editors.

The referees in 2020 were:

Patricia Apps, Jungo Baek, Deepankar

Basu, Tony Blakely, Jeff Borland, Michelle

Brown, Paul Burke, Lixin Cai, Buly

Cardak, Michael Coelli, Narendra Dalei,

Brian Davidson, Steven Duckett, Saul

Eslake, Jan Feld, John Freebairn, Quentin

Grafton, Ross Guest, Imran Hanif, Kyle

Higham, Joe Hirschberg, Dean Hyslop,

James Juniper, Guyonne Kalb, Fridolin

Krausmann, Claudio Labanca, Frank

Larkins, Dohyeon Lee, May Li, Omer

Majeed, Tim Maloney, Duncan McIvor,

K. Narayanan, Viet Nguyen, Parth Patel,

David Prentice, Laura Puzzello, Margarita

Rubio, Ruhul Salim, Heinz Schandl, John

Shannon, Peter Sheehan, Russell

Thompson, Alan Triggs, Guido Turnip,

Geoff Warren, Sarah Wheeler, and Glenn

Withers.

3. Further Acknowledgements

We are greatly indebted to Emily Wrethman

for her work as the Assistant Editor. The

publishing team at Wiley has served us well,

both in production and marketing, for which

we are most grateful.

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