The past two years of editing the Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics (JEEG) has certainly been enlightening. First, I get to see cutting edge research related to instrumentation, applications, algorithms, and interpretation before anyone else. In 2018 alone, we had 116 unique submissions with 38 published articles. That is a lot of science to wade through each week and I learn a great deal about where the science is heading. I also try not to be a gatekeeper and allow just about anything to go out for review (to the annoyance of the associate editors) as long as it fits scope and has some basic structure as an article on near surface geophysics. Granted, some articles from countries that are not native English speakers may take up to four rounds of reviews before they can be published. That brings me to my second point of how a very poor quality initial submission can be turned into a top notch article through the careful reviews and editing done by all those handling the manuscript. Sometimes it takes the eyes of several people to get the concept across in a readable manner. And for the record, all articles that have some level of acceptance has to go through revision. I have yet to see a paper to be accepted 'as is' for the initial submission. Even in my own career, I have yet to see this happen for me.
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