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Tobacco Control 2004;13:321-322
© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd


EDITORIAL

Tobacco control

Changes at Tobacco Control

S Chapman

Correspondence to:
Professor Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Building A27, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; simonchapman@health.usyd.edu.au


Constant change is here to stay—and how things are changing at Tobacco Control

Keywords: Tobacco Control

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

From 2005, we are delighted to announce that Tobacco Control will come out six times a year instead of four. We have experienced a healthy rise in submissions (up 46% between 2002–3; and up 7% between 2003–4), with no discernable decrease in quality. From January 2002 to September 2004, we received 700 submissions—excluding papers for commissioned supplements. We rejected 58% of these, nearly half of which were rejected without review. Our acceptance rate is not the reciprocal 42%, because currently there are 67 papers either being reviewed or revised, some of which will be rejected. Rejecting papers is the worst task editors must perform. But it is one necessitated by space and cost constraints, and our concern to maintain the journal at as high a standard as possible. The box at the end of this article summarises the 10 main reasons why we reject papers.

We have about . . . [Full text of this article]




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Excellent! Changes at Tobacco Control
norbert hirschhorn
Tobacco Control Online, 25 Nov 2004 [Full text]
TC and the global tobacco epidemic
Wasim Maziak
Tobacco Control Online, 24 Jan 2005 [Full text]
Re: TC and the global tobacco epidemic
Simon Chapman
Tobacco Control Online, 24 Jan 2005 [Full text]



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