Editorial for the SoSyM issue 2014/04

摘要

In recent years, SoSyM has had a pretty large pipeline of papers to be published. This resulted in long hard copy publication turnaround times for accepted SoSyM papers. In order to facilitate more timely publication of accepted papers, we requested Springer to increase the number of pages per issue. Springer agreed to significantly increase the number of pages per issue for 2014. Specifically, they agreed to increase the number of pages in the first two issues of 2014 to 448 pages, and the last two issues of 2014 to 304 pages. Springer is also looking at increasing the number of pages published in 2015 to further reduce the pipeline. We are very grateful to the Springer staff for their willingness to take concrete steps to reduce the publication pipeline.