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Previous articleNext article FreeFrom the EditorsJulia Driver and Connie RosatiJulia Driver Search for more articles by this author and Connie Rosati Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThis has been an extremely challenging year for everyone. We hope you are all healthy and, with vaccinations well underway, we will gradually be able to resume our usual, lively in-person philosophical exchanges. Over the past several months, we have heard anecdotal reports that journal editing has been particularly difficult during the pandemic. This has certainly been the case at Ethics. We have been extremely fortunate, though, in having a managing editor, Joe Muszynski, who has kept the journal running smoothly, helping us all to stay on top of the workload. We want to thank the associate editors, our book review editor, Billy Dunaway, and our reviewers for the exemplary job they have been doing under difficult circumstances. We also want to thank our authors and readers for helping to keep the philosophical conversations going. As our annual statistical tables show, submissions have continued to go up (see tables 1–3). We are happy to report that, even with the increased number of manuscripts, over 90 percent of submissions received a final decision within four months.Table 1. Time to Decision as of April 26, 2021, on Submissions in the 2019 and 2020 Cohorts Total<1 Mo.1–2 Mos.2–3 Mos.3–4 Mos.4–5 Mos.5–6 Mos.>6 Mos.Stage2019202020192020201920202019202020192020201920202019202020192020AcceptedOriginal manuscript accepted as is or with minor revisions2000201000000000Acceptance of 1st resubmission 9411110032400000Acceptance of 2nd resubmission 6200103210001000Acceptance of 3rd resubmission 4000002010000000Acceptance of 4th resubmission 0000000000000000RejectedOriginal manuscript rejected without invitation to resubmit560621353039632973173335121282703Original manuscript rejected with invitation to resubmit47410010311815228631011st revision rejected without invitation to resubmit136107411101021001st revision rejected with invitation to resubmit118028630000000002nd revision rejected without invitation to resubmit51000011300010002nd revision rejected with invitation to resubmit62006200000000003rd revision rejected without invitation to resubmit11000100000010004th revision rejected without invitation to resubmit0000000000000000Total6646863733431346951855775343410904Percent1001005.64.864.950.414.3278.610.95.15.01.51.30.6Note. Each cohort includes all original articles and discussion pieces that were originally submitted in that calendar year. Data include each decision on all manuscripts in the 2019 and 2020 cohorts—in their original form and any subsequent revisions—irrespective of the year in which the decision was reached or the year in which the revised version of the paper was submitted. For this reason, the total number of decisions for each cohort is greater than the total number of submissions in that cohort. View Table Image Table 2. Current Status of Manuscripts in the 2019 and 2020 CohortsCurrent Status20192020NumberPercentageNumberPercentageAccepted213.56.8Rejected5789562790.2No final decision (with author)5.8142.0No final decision (under review)00405.8Withdrawn4.781.2Total608100695100 View Table Image Table 3. Invitations to Resubmit for Manuscripts in the 2019 and 2020 CohortsMSS That Received an Invitation to Resubmit20192020Original MS rejected with invitation to resubmit2940MSS resubmitted once before final decision239MSS resubmitted twice before final decision103MSS resubmitted more than twice before final decision51 View Table Image Over the past year, we have been alerted to some unclarity in our Instructions for Authors. We have therefore revised those instructions to make needed clarifications and hope the changes we have made satisfactorily addressed any questions or concerns authors might have had. Some of the changes pertain to questions about the policy of Ethics with respect to pronoun use, in particular, use of ‘they’ and its cognates as the singular plural. As we hope will now be clear, Ethics recognizes this usage and respects the pronoun choices of its authors. The copy editor has been notified of this clarification of our policy. Other changes pertain to the process of submission, though mostly to submission of symposia proposals and the handling of manuscripts submitted as part of a symposium. We ask those submitting a manuscript or a symposium proposal to Ethics to read the revised instructions (which now appear on the Ethics website) before submitting. We continue to work on ways to improve our processes and our communication with our authors and readers.Wishing you all the best in what we hope will be a year of returning to (near) normal. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 132, Number 1October 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/715390 Views: 1243 © 2021 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.