Editor's Report—On Decisions and Authorships

Abstract

The Journal received 932 papers in 1986, a 19 per cent increase over the previous year.This has made decisions come harder and left more disappointed authors in its wake.More decisions have been made by the editor alone without sending the paper out for review-almost a third of the papers falling into this category.Such decisions may be hard for an author to understand, but they are common practice in peer reviewed biomedical journals.IThe Lancet, in fact, handles 70 per cent of its

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