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The editors of Toxicology Letters would like to take this annual opportunity to thank the members of the editorial board who committed their time and expertise to the review process. Several individuals have completed their term of service and are rotating off the board. Our particular thanks to these individuals whose assistance was critical to the enhancement of the journal. Although members of the editorial board are essential to the success of any journal, reviews provided by scientists outside the editorial board are perhaps even more important. More than half of all reviews are performed by these volunteers whose breadth of expertise is necessary to achieve effective peer review of the wide range of papers received each year. We extend our thanks to all of these scientists whose names are listed below. The average time for review of manuscripts received in the offices of both Editors has remained at approximately 28 days. Of significant note is the tremendous improvement in time from final acceptance to publication. During the past year we have been able to sustain a time of 3 months, even getting to 2 months in many cases. Thus, Toxicology Letters is providing a valuable service of rapid publication of short reports on mechanisms of toxicity. During the calendar year 1997, the Editor for the Americas received 79 research papers, a decrease of seven from the prior year, and four
book reviews. The decline in submissions is a concern. We would ask our readers to seriously consider submitting their work to Toxicology Letters. There are no other journals that can match our speed and quality of review and publication in the area of toxicology for short papers of mechanistic importance. Thanks go to Dr Fred Oehme who, as Associate Editor, has been handling the book reviews. He has continued to provide an excellent number of these reviews both personally and through the recruitment of others. These reviews provide a valuable service by assisting our readers in deciding on the value of the many books published in toxicology each year. Of the 79 regular articles received in my office, 46 were accepted for publication, 25 rejected and eight remain under revision. Based on past experience that most of those still remaining under revision will not be resubmitted, the acceptance rate for 1997 was 59%. This is essentially unchanged from the rate of 57% reported last year, and is indicative of the high standards being maintained by the journal. During the calendar year 1997, the Editor for Europe, Africa, Australasia and Asia received 119 research papers, the submission rate remained almost constant as compared with 1996. Of these 119 regular articles, 43 were accepted, 67 rejected, and 9 remain under revision. Thus, the acceptance rate was 39%.
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To all contributors to Toxicology Letters during the past year also go our thanks. We hope that you are pleased with the changes that have been made, and that our journal is meeting your needs. We are open to any suggestions regarding ways to further improve the journal. James P. Kehrer Editor for the Americas W. Dekant Editor for Europe, Africa, Australasia and Asia Reviewers, April 1, 1997 through March 31, 1998 Editors for the Americas Allis, John (Research Triangle Park, NC) Andrews, James E. (Research Triangle Park, NC) Bagchi, Debasis (Omaha, NE) Borowitz, Joseph L. (W. Lafayette, IN) Borzelleca, Joseph (Richmond, VA) Bratton, Shawn (Austin, TX) Brent, Thomas (Memphis, TN) Buhler, Donald (Corvalis, OR) Carlson, Gary P. (W. Lafayette, IN) Champney, Thomas H. (College Station, TX) Combs, Alan (Austin, TX) Cummings, Audrey (Research Triangle Park, NC) Deneke, Susan (San Antonio, TX) Devaud, Leslie L. (Chapel Hill, NC) Ehrich, Marion (Blacksburg, VA) Elsayed, Nabil M. (Washington, DC) Ercal, Nuran (Rolla, MO) Fennell, Timothy (Research Triangle Park, NC) Gandolfi, A. Jay (Tucson, AZ) Gilbert, Mary (Research Triangle Park, NC) Goldman, Jerome (Research Triangle Park, NC) Grant, Donna M. (Richland, WA) Greenspan, Phillip (Athens, GA) Handler, Jeffrey A. (Collegeville, PA) Hare, Michael (Austin, TX) Harvison, Peter J. (Philadelphia, PA) Hatch, Gary E. (Research Triangle Park, NC) Hathaway, T.R. (Sacramento, CA) Heck, Diane E. (Piscataway, NJ) Herzog, Norbert (Galveston, TX) Hesterberg, Thomas W. (Littleton, CO) Hoorn, Cindy M. (Kalamazoo, MI)
Hoyt, Dale (Pittsburgh, PA) Jean, Paul (Midland, MI) Jensen, Karl (Research Triangle Park, NC) Jett, David A. (Baltimore, MD) Ji, S. (Piscataway, NJ) Kaminski, Norbert E. (E. Lansing, MI) Kanz, Mary (Galveston, TX) Kaphalia, Bhupendra S. (Galveston, TX) King, Roberta (Jefferson, AR) Kitchin, Kirk (Research Triangle Park, NC) Kliner, Heather (Smithville, TX) Kolaja, Kyle (Kansas City, KS) Lash, Lawrence (Detroit, MI) Laskin, Debra L. (Piscataway, NJ) Ledbetter, Allen (Research Triangle Park, NC) Liu, Jie (Kansas City, KS) Madhukar, Burra V. (E. Lansing, MI) Massey, Thomas E. (Kingston, Ontario) McKinney, James D. (Research Triangle Park, NC) McMillian, Carl (Indianapolis, IN) McQueen, Charlene A. (Tucson, AZ) Melchert, Russell B. (Little Rock, AR) Mirsalis, Jon (Menlo Park, CA) Monteiro-Riviere, Nancy A. (Raleigh, NC) Moore, Martha (Research Triangle Park, NC) Murphy, Michael (Albany, NY) Nye, Alan (Little Rock, AR) Orner, Gayle (Richland, WA) Otto, David (Research Triangle Park, NC) Penney, David G. (Detroit, MI) Pickrell, John A. (Manhattan, KS) Pritsos, Chris (Reno, NV) Pruett, Steve (Mississippi State, MS) Ramos, Kenneth (College Station, TX) Ramu, Kumar (Irvine, CA) Ray, Sidhartha (Brooklyn, NY) Reed, Gregory (Kansas City, KS) Reinke, Lester A. (Oklahoma City, OK) Richburg, John (Austin, TX) Rikans, Lora (Oklahoma City, OK) Rundgaug, Joyce E. (Smithville, TX) Schultz, Irwin (Richland, WA) Seegal, Richard F. (Albany, NY) Selgrade, MaryJane (Research Triangle Park, NC) Smith, Charles V. (Houston, TX) Steinmetz, Karen L. (Madison, WI)
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Steup, David R. (Houston, TX) Stohs, Sidney (Omaha, NE) Studenberg, Scott (Research Triangle Park, NC) Sylvester, Diane (Albany, NY) Taioli, Emmanuel (New York, NY) Twerdok, Lorraine E. (Washington, D.C.) Vanden Huevel, Jack (University Park, PA) Waalkes, Michael (Frederick, MD) Wallig, Mathew (Urbana, IL) Watson, Ronald (Tucson, AZ) Welty, Stephen (Houston, TX) Witz, Gisela (Piscataway, NJ) Yasuda, Sally (Washington, DC) Yost, Garold S. (Salt Lake City, UT) Reviewers, April 1, 1997 through March 31, 1998 Editor for Europe and the rest of the world Abou-Donia, Mohamed B. (Durham, NC) Abuja, Peter M. (Graz, Austria) Ahokas, J.T., (Melbourne, Australia) Akerboom, Th. (Du¨sseldorf, Germany) Alarie, Y. (Pittsburgh, PN) Api, Anne Marie (Hackensack, NJ) Appenroth, Dorothea (Jena, Germany) Ashby, J. (Cheshire, UK) Autrup, Herman (Aarhus, Denmark) Balls, Michael (Ispra, Italy) Ban, M. (Vandoevre Cedex, France) Bast, A. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Batchelor, John (Alnwick, UK) Benson, J.M. (Albuquerque, NM) Berger, N.A. (Cleveland, OH) Berthou, Francois (Brest Cedex, France) Bo¨cker, R. (Erlangen, Germany) Bode, G. (Romanville, France) Boekelheide, Kim (Providence, RI) Brouwer, A. (Wageningen, The Netherlands) Burchiel, Scott William (Albuquerque, NM) Bursch, W. (Wien, Austria) Carlson, Gary P. (West Lafayette, IN) Casida, J.E. (Berkeley, CA) Cattley, Russel C. (Research Triangle Park, NC) Chahoud, I. (Berlin, Germany) Chung, Fung-Lung (Valhalla, NY) Clement, J.G. (Laval, Quebec) Collins, Andrew (Aberdeen, UK)
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Ho¨hn, Holger (Wu¨rzburg, Germany) Hollstein, Monika (Heidelberg, Germany) Ikeda, Masayuki (Kyoto, Japan) Ilba¨ck, N.-G. (Helsingborg, Sweden) Ishinsishi, N. (Fukuoka, Japan) Jenssen, Drag (Stockholm, Sweden) Johanson, Gunnar (Solna, Sweden) Johnson, M.K. (Surrey, UK) Kahl, Regine (Du¨sseldorf, Germany) Kalapos, M.P. (Budapest, Hungary) Kasai, H. (Kitakyushu, Japan) Kelce, W.R. (Research Triangle Park, NC) Kennedy, Gerald L. Jr. (Newark, DE) Kevekordes, S. (Go¨ttingen, Germany) Kimber, Ian (Cheshire, UK) Klaassen, Curtis (Kansas City, KS) Klimisch, H.J. (Ludwigshafen, Germany) Ko, Y. (Bonn, Germany) Koeman, Jan H. (Wageningen, The Netherlands) Kosnett, M.J. (San Francisco, CA) Kroes, R. (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Lash, L.H. (Detroit, MI) Laskin, D.L. (Piscataway, NJ) Lauwerys, Robert (Brussels, Belgium) Lee, Douglas C. (Clayton, NC) Lind, Ylva (Uppsala, Sweden) Lison, D. (Brussels, Belgium) Lo¨f, Agneta (Solna, Sweden) Lotti, Marcelo (Padova, Italy) Luster, Michael I. (Morgantown, WV) Lutz, W. (Wu¨rzburg, Germany) Madeira, V.M.C. (Coimbra Codex, Portugal) Madsen, Charlotte (Soborg, Denmark) Manzo, Luigi (Pavia, Italy) Maser, Edmund (Marburg, Germany) Matsuo, M. (Osaka, Japan) Mauderly, Joe (Albuquerque, NM) Mayer, D. (Frankfurt, Germany) Mengs, Ulrich (Ko¨ln, Germany) Moslen, M. Treinen (Galveston, TX) Mukhtar, H. (Cleveland, OH) Narahashi, T. (Chicago, IL) Nau, Heinz (Hannover, Germany) Neumann, H.-G. (Wu¨rzburg, Germany) Nicotera, P. (Konstanz, Germany) Niemela, O. (Helsinki, Finland) Oesch, F. (Mainz, Germany) Ohgaki (Lyon, France) .
Otteneder, Michael (Wu¨rzburg, Germany) Pauluhn, Ju¨rgen (Wuppertal, Germany) Perreault, S. (Research Triangle Park, NC) Plaa, Gabriel L. (Montreal, Canada) Platt, Karl-Ludwig (Mainz, Germany) Preziosi, Paolo (Rome, Italy) Ramos, K. S. (College Station, TX) Rankin, Gary (Huntington, WV) Reddy, J.K. (Chicago, IL) Reichl, M.J. (Mu¨nchen, Germany) Rice, D.C. (Ottawa, Canada) Rietjens, Ivonne (Wageningen, The Netherlands) Roberts, Stephen (Gainesville, FL) Roels, H. (Brussels, Belgium) Schechter, M. D. (Rootstown, USA) Schiffmann, D. (Rostock, Germany) Schmidt, Harald (Wu¨rzburg, Germany) Schulte-Hermann, R. (Wien, Austria) Schwetz, B. A. (Jefferson, AR) Seth, P.K. (Lucknow, India) Sies, Helmut (Du¨sseldorf, Germany) Silbergeld, Ellen K. (Baltimore, MD) Speijers, G.J.A. (Bilthoven, The Netherlands) Speit, G. (Ulm, Germany) Spielmann, Horst (Berlin, Germany) Stevens, J.L. (Lake Placid, NY) Stohs, S.J. (Omaha, NE) Stolte, H. (Hannover, Germany) Stopper, Helga (Wu¨rzburg, Germany) Summer, K. H. (Oberschleißheim, Germany) Sumner, S. (Research Triangle Park, NC) Sumpter, John P. (Middlesex, UK) Szinicz, Ladislaus (Mu¨nchen, Germany) Thurmann, Ronald G. (Chapel Hill, NC) Tugwood, J.J. D. (Cheshire, UK) Uragg, H. (Aachen, Germany) Vermeulen, N.P.E. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Vilanova, Eugenio G. (Alicante, Spain) Visser, Theo (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Waalkes, Michael (Research Triangle Park, NC) Wahli, W. (Lausanne, Switzerland) Walter, Ulrich (Wu¨rzburg, Germany) Wild, Dieter (Kulmbach, Germany) Wilhelm, Michael (Bochum, Germany) Winneke, Gerhard (Du¨sseldorf, Germany) Witte, Irene (Oldenburg, Germany) Zalups, R.K. (Macon, GA) Zelikoff, Judith (Tuxedo, NY) Zeller, Walter Jens (Heidelberg, Germany)