AMS Journals Cut Production Time While Increasing Impact
BOSTON — With the installation of new technologies and procedures in 2015–16, the American Meteorological Society made a 30 percent reduction in the time needed to prepare and publish accepted manuscripts to its scientific journals.
Authors now wait a full month less for their articles to move through the production process from acceptance to print. Just one year ago, publication for articles accepted in the 10 AMS scientific journals averaged 100 days—the shortest lag ever at that time. As of last month, this production period had dwindled to around 70 days and continues to diminish today.