One-Year Update from the Editor-in-Chief

These modifications to our practices have worked well. Indeed, 2020 and 2021 have seen an uptick in the number of editorial rejections that we have issued, relative to “the Beforetimes”, perhaps in part because 18months of global pandemic-related lockdown led stuck-at-home scientists to write up and submit articles that, for whatever reason, hadn’t until then been of high priority? Whatever the reasons, we are grateful to our newly assembled team of Consulting Editors for helping us work through this uptick in difficult decisions. Importantly, the fact that onmany occasions a Consulting Editor has overruled an initial decision to editorially reject an article means that the decisionmaking process for editorial rejection has become fairer.