EDITORIAL
During 2006 we have received over 2000 manuscript submissions. Our acceptance rate over the past year has been close to 30%. We are pleased to see that more authors are submitting novel biological insights through our Discovery Notes articles, including a growing number of novel protein domain discoveries. We are proud to have published a number of special issues including full volumes dedicated to the two main conferences in the field: ISMB and ECCB 2006. We are also pleased to note that the latest impact factor for Bioinformatics from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) has continued to increase, from 5.7 to 6.0.
Papers are published rapidly online ahead of print, within one week of acceptance on average, and usually appear in the print version of the journal within 12 weeks.
The journal has continued to publish Open Access papers as part of the Oxford Open initiative (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/). During 2006, over 20% of Bioinformatics authors have chosen to publish their paper under the Open Access model. This is the highest uptake seen by any journal in the optional Oxford Open initiative. In addition, all content is made freely available online 12 months after publication.
In the New Year we will increase the number of review articles in key topics for our community and we are grateful to Jonathan Wren the Associate Editor who is coordinating this.
Over the last year we have continued to bring on board new Associate Editors to replace those who are stepping down. Over the past year five editors have stepped down. We would like to thank Charlie Hodgman, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Alvis Brazma, Satoru Miyano and Christos Ouzounis for their great contribution to the journal. We have extended the terms of Martin Bishop, John Quackenbush and Thomas Lengauer for a further three years. We would like to welcome Trey Ideker, Olga Troyanskaya, Limsoon Wong and Burkhard Rost, our new Asso\ciate Editors who have joined through the year.
In particular we would like to mention the immense contribution of Christos Ouzounis in shaping Bioinformatics into what it is now. Along with Martin Bishop, Christos was a very active handling editor of the journal for the many years in which the office was at the EBI in Hinxton with Chris Sander as Executive Editor. Among many other contributions Christos was the one behind the creation of the Discovery Notes section, the association with ISMB for the publication of their annual special issue, and for the creation of the Bioinformatics Associate Editor role. He will now continue working with the journal as member of the Editorial Board from his new position in Tessaloniki.
We would also like to thank our Editorial Board for helpful advice and suggestions throughout the year. Finally we would like to give our thanks to the many thousands of referees who have freely given up their time to review and improve the work submitted to the journal.
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