Editorial 2019 In Review

Continuing a decade-long trend, Journal submissions have increased steadily, year by year, from 740 in 2007 to 1,147 in 2019. Of the papers received by JADD last year, 462 were ultimately accepted – almost invariably following at least one revision. The associate editors and I were pleased to see the growth of scholarship on autism around the world; this past year authors from 73 countries submitted to the Journal. The downside of the increased number of submissions is that our standards are necessarily going to become stringent. With the increased number of submissions we are increasingly aware of the problem of ‘reviewer fatigue,’ and the associate editors and I are increasingly going to either reject papers without review or redirect them to a different Journal. Review articles are now routinely redirected to our companion Journal, Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, or elsewhere. …