Table 1.

Journal statistics

JAALAS	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Total submissions	68	119	132	172	167	191	170	179	158	148
International	24	31	52	61	52	71	57	74	75	54
% international	35	26	39	35	31	37	34	41	59	36
Disposition of submissions
Referred to CM	3	4	11	15	18	31	16	17	25	23
Withdrawn	3	7	6	4	8	5	5	3	4	4
Rejected	24	37	35	41	43	55	64	75	62	44
Accepted	41	61	73	93	91	90	75	80	91	62
Total number accepted or rejected*	65	98	108	134	134	145	139	155	153	106
% accepted	63	62	68	69	68	62	54	52	59	58
Days from submission to
first decision	28	32	28	28	28	28	28	28	32	34
final decision	50	55	66	64	62	62	50	56	75	60
Articles published**	62	65	62	68	90	96	79	71	88	67
Pages published	812	756	732	840	916	993	872	810	727	446
Average pages per article	6.9	6.3	5.7	5.9	5.8	6.4	6.8	11.4	8.3	6.7
Impact factor		0.52	0.53	0.95	0.80	0.71	1.14	***	1.12	NA
CM	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Total submissions	83	136	126	158	138	162	171	169	135	127
International	35	42	50	86	55	73	76	89	80	66
% international	42	31	40	54	40	45	44	53	59	52
Disposition of submissions
Referred to JAALAS	18	27	24	39	36	31	29	23	12	9
Withdrawn	1	7	8	6	6	4	3	6	1	0
Rejected	20	34	37	51	35	54	75	69	75	54
Accepted	44	57	56	47	61	57	64	63	45	56
Total number accepted or rejected*	64	91	93	98	96	111	139	132	120	110
% accepted	69	63	60	48	64	51	46	48	38	51
Days from submission to
first decision	49	40	32	28	28	28	24	24	28	24
final decision	95	66	62	53	61	53	46	42	45	47
Articles published **	45	63	63	59	55	60	68	60	58	59
Pages published, articles	452	614	623	613	520	576	568	547	436	401
Average pages per article	7	7.2	7.4	7.7	6.9	7.0	6.7	9.1	7.5	6.8
Impact factor	0.99	1.15	1.09	1.09	1.20	1.05	1.12	***	0.74	NA

^*, some articles submitted in 2015 were still under review in 2016

^**, some of the articles published in 2015 were accepted in 2014

^***, impact factors for 2013 were calculated based on 3 issues, rather than 6, for each journal and as a result were inaccurate.

NA, not yet available