In 2010, this Journal faces a new dilemma. Manuscript submission rates to the Journal increased markedly over the past year. The standard of submitted papers has also improved. The fortunate aspect of this is that we can continue to increase the academic quality of the Journal, but the flip-side is that our rejection rate must rise. in the past few years the rejection rate has increased from 30 per cent to 50 per cent and it will need to be higher still, in order not to overburden the administrative staff, the Editors and our long-suffering panel of reviewers, we anticipate more stringent criteria for acceptance. More papers will be rejected without review, after review, and, very importantly, following an unsatisfactory response to reviewers' comments in revised papers. With such changes, it is important to be clear about our decision making.
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