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2020 Annual Report Journal of Plant Registrations 2020 Annual Report Journal of Plant Registrations: Dr. Arron Carter from Washington State University began his term as Editor of the Journal of Plant Registrations in 2020. He had previously served as an Associate Editor for the journal for two years. Ann Edahl continues to serve as our Managing Editor, and we appreciate her assistance to the journal. Having a new editor meant a lot of questions, and Ann was always there to help find the answer! I have attached the Managing Editors report at the end of this report for reference. During 2020, due to an increase in the diversity of manuscripts being submitted, we added Mary Gutierri (USDA), Shantel Martinez (Bayer Crop Science; Early Career member), Juan Osorno (NDSU), and Andrew Wiersma (MSU; Early Career member) to the editorial board. Associate Editors Naveen Puppala (NMSU), Jorge Da Silva (Texas A&M), and William Anderson (USDA) agreed to serve additional terms in 2021. We also will be adding Dipak Santra (University of Nebraska), Kolbyn Joy (Bayer Crop Science; Early Career member), and Guorong Zhang (KSU) as Associate Editors in 2021. Charles Chen (Auburn University) finished his second term and we thanked him for his six years of service on the board. In 2020 we had 105 manuscripts submitted, which is an increase over the average 81 we have had over the past six years. The majority of the manuscripts received detailed small grains or legumes, followed by peanut, sugarcane and soybean, among many other submission from various other crops. In 2020 we launched two new Scopes for contribution, one on Review and Interpretation (designed to highlight cultivars/germplasm of significant importance to a crop) and Description of genetic plant material (to highlight new information presented on lines already registered within the germplasm system). We received 1 manuscript in each of these sections in 2020. Both of these have served as good examples on how to write these types of manuscripts, and our hope is these will develop interest for more submissions in future years. We maintain a high acceptance rate of about 95% of submitted manuscript, with about 80% of submission from the US, and the remaining international submissions. Impact factor remains low on the journal, as the journal does not hit key metrics that help develop a high impact factor. Regardless, we feel the ability to register germplasm and cultivars is a great service to our members, and continue to encourage members to do so. We hope that the addition of the Review and Discussion scope will help increase the impact factor as these manuscripts may be cited more outside of the self-citations that typically occur with cultivar registrations. Even with this low impact factor, we see nearly 12,000 full-text downloads, so the manuscripts are being utilized by the scientific community. Three manuscripts were promoted by staff in 2020, one as a feature story and 2 as 200-word summaries in CSA news. We hope to continue to increase the number of articles which can be promoted to further increase the visibility of the journal. We held our annual editorial board meeting on November 5th, via a virtual platform. Nearly all editorial board members were in attendance. We discussed the review process and the continued difficulty in obtaining outside reviewers and getting rapid responses after acceptance. We recommended asking authors who have previously published with JPR to review articles, in hopes they will be willing to return serviced to the journal which has published their paper. There was also a question on if we could search ScholarOne for authors that have published based on crop type, which needs to be followed up on with Wiley. Other tips were discussed and reviewed. Additional discussions revolved around the submission of seed samples to the germplasm repository system, and how to better improve that system. Authors who request PVP status must also submit samples, so oftentimes they are asked for two separate samples. We will follow up with our contact at the USDA who handles these requests to see if we can improve this process. There was also discussion on if we could add custom questions about if the author plans on filing for PVP status, or to send out reminder emails to ensure authors submit seed (which must occur before publication of the manuscript). These will be discussed with the appropriate groups to try and resolve. In conclusion, 2020 was a very productive year for the journal, and I am appreciative of the editorial board and staff members who served given the difficult circumstances of the year. We are looking forward to another productive year in 2021. Dr. Arron Carter Editor, Journal of Plant Registrations November 2020 C312—Journal of Plant Registrations Editorial Board Managing Editor's Report—Ann Edahl Production A summary of papers published, total pages, and article length for 2020 compared with previous volumes is presented in Table 1. Table 1. Summary of papers published in JPR. Contribution 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Cultivars 35 42 44 43 30 42 36 Germplasm 21 25 26 13 21 23 27 Genetic stock 5 4 2 3 2 7 2 Mapping population 2 5 2 1 3 6 1 Parental lines – 2 – – 1 2 – Reviews & interpretationa 1 – – – – – – Description of genetic plant materiala 1 Total pages 473 477 409 327 322 429 336 Avg. page length, all types 7.4 6.0 5.5 5.3 5.6 5.4 5.1 aNew paper type for 2020. Submissions Table 2 shows the number of submissions, 2014–2020. Table 2. Submission of JPR papers in ScholarOne. International Yeara US submissions Total submissions % International % Acceptb submissions 2020 74 19 93 20% 94% 2019 68 14 82 17% 94% 2018 61 19 80 24% 97% 2017 74 14 88 16% 97% 2016 64 11 75 15% 95% 2015 58 15 73 21% 95% 2014 81 8 89 9% 93% aYear to date for 2020 (Jan.–Oct. 30). bDoes not include manuscripts with a “not for review” decision. Online Usage Statistics Table 3 shows the online usage statistics for 2020 (January–September 30). Table 3. Usage statistics for ASA, CSSA, SSSA journals. Journal Sum of full text downloads Agricultural & Environmental Letters 33693 Agronomy Journal 248208 Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment 38739 Crop Science 227295 Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management 19933 Crops & Soils 19549 CSA News 51984 Journal of Environmental Quality 196199 Journal of Plant Registrations 11962 Natural Sciences Education 14479 Soil Science Society of America Journal 175394 The Plant Genome 108552 The Plant Phenome Journal 14121 Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems 6187 Vadose Zone Journal 94034 Grand Total 1260329 Impact Factor Table 4 shows the impact factor for JPR from 2013 to 2019. Table 4. Impact factor for JPR. Impact factor 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2-year 0.590 0.692 0.62 0.616 0.474 0.640 0.480 5-year 0.798 0.800 0.637 0.625 0.637 0.596 0.611 Scope The scope of JPR was updated in 2019, broadened to add two paper types: • Short manuscripts characterizing accessions held within Plant Germplasm Collection Systems (Description of Plant Genetic Material). • Discussion of plant genetic materials that have made a major impact on agricultural security (Reviews & Interpretation). We published our first articles under these two paper types in 2020: Reviews & Interpretation: Carter et al., How ‘Madsen’ has shaped Pacific Northwest wheat and beyond (https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20049) Description of Genetic Plant Material: Nchimbi Msoll, et al., Description of Baetao‐Manteiga 41 and ‘Yunguilla’ superior Andean common beans for Tanzanian production environments. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20072. Promotion and Public Relations Summary See separate report for magazine and podcast promotion in 2020. Journal content was also promoted to the general public through our science communication department as web stories. Questions regarding these stories can be directed to JPR editor Arron Carter, who currently acts as JPR’s science communications editor. JPR’s Twitter account, @PlantReg, now has more than 415 followers compared with 340 last year at this time. Headquarters Staff Contacts: Ann Edahl, managing editor ([email protected]), Matt Wascavage, director of publications ([email protected]), Abby Morrison, publications systems assistant ([email protected]), Lauren Coleman, publications & marketing manager ([email protected]). Acknowledgments Many thanks to JPR editor Arron Carter and to our associate editors and reviewers for all of your hard work and dedication to JPR. —Ann Edahl, Managing Editor, Journal of Plant Registrations 2020 Director of Publications Annual Report—Matt Wascavage Editor Changes 2020 ENDING TERM 2021 NEW APPOINTMENTS Marilyn Warburton – CS Editor Paul Scott – CS Editor Gary Muehlbauer – TPG Editor Henry Nguyen – TPG Editor David Clay – AJ Editor To be determined – AJ Editor Dan Sweeney – ASA Editor-in-Chief To be determined – ASA Editor-in-Chief 2021 REAPPOINTMENT Jerry Hatfield – AGE Editor Wiley Partnership Update In early 2020, all journal content launched exclusively on Wiley Online Library (WOL) and the ACSESS Digital Library (DL) platform was decommissioned. Links to the old DL are now forwarded to the WOL. An initial quality control check was completed for the journal and magazine content and a check of the books content is currently under way. The Methods of Soil Analysis (MSA) content has been split on the WOL. The MSA books are included with the books, but the individual MSA articles could not be integrated with books and are in a new section in SSSAJ. Future MSA articles will be published in SSSAJ. A link to the articles section will also be added to the MSA web page for the book content. The Managing Editors and journal Editorial Boards have adjusted to article style and process changes with the goal of improving time to decision and time to publish metrics.
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