'JOM is, I think, really the mirror of TMS to the world.'-2001 TMS President Wayne Hale

摘要

For each year's TMS Annual Meeting, one of my responsibilities entails compiling a status report on JOM for presentation to the TMS Publications Coordinating Committee - the busy volunteer group that has oversight of the society's family of periodicals among a variety of other important activities. Typically, the report contains statistical data, comments on significant editorial initiatives of the past year and the coming months, some facts on dollars and cents, subscription statistics, etc., etc. Because I am passionate about recycling (especially the recycle of material that I've already written) and because JOM is the mirror of TMS to the world (Hear, hear, President Hale!), this may be an opportune moment to peer into the looking glass and recap some of the report's highlights.