During 2018, Socio-Economic Review (SER) received a record 405 submissions of original manuscripts from first authors in 52 different countries. SER accepted 11% of all submissions with a final decision in 2018. The journal impact factor of Socio-Economic Review reached an all-time high of 3.328 based on the citations made in 2018 to work published in 2016 and 2017. On this basis, SER ranked 6th of 148 journals in Sociology, 16th of 176 journals in Political Science and 43rd of 363 journals in Economics, putting SER within the top 4–12% of journals in these disciplines. In keeping up with the growth and visibility of Socio-Economic Review, lots of work is going in the journal team and within SASE to put SER on a more stable footing for the coming years. During the 2018 SASE meeting, the Executive Council adopted a number of new organizational arrangements aiming to further strengthen the relationship between the SER team and the wider organization of SASE. This work continued in 2019 with the adoption of a new budget framework for the journal, which will help expand and professionalize the work of the journal team. The aim here is to ensure that SER can better handle the growing volume of submissions, while maintaining reasonable turnaround times, high scholarly standards and a constructive approach to working with authors across disciplines, which have made SER such a success. We hope that several changes will also benefit authors by making the production of issues faster and more flexible. Throughout this process, Oxford University Press (OUP) has been very responsive and supportive of the changing needs of SER. All this has involved a lot of work from various people behind the scenes, but special thanks should go out to past SASE presidents Gary Herrigel and Akos Rona-Tas, as well as Guy Edwards at OUP.