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This past year has been one of transition at the Journal. To begin, Lynn Kern Koegel, Clinical Professor at Stanford School of Medicine, is the new co-editor of the Journal. Lynn has been a JADD reviewer for many decades, and more recently an associate and senior editor. Over the coming years she looks forward to continuing to work with the distinguished group of scholars who serve as associate editors and board members. In addition to being a researcher in the field of autism for many decades, she is also the aunt of a child who was diagnosed with autism at age two-and-a-half. Although he used no spoken verbal words when diagnosed, he is now thriving as a teen. This personal experience has been both enlightening and educational for her. She looks forward to working with Fred Volkmar as he transitions out of his role as Editor over the next 2 years. As an editor for nearly 15 years Fred has seen the many changes in the field and the development of the truly inspirational research enterprise for which this Journal has been such a vital part.
Sadly, as was true last year any discussion of 2021 must acknowledge the impact of the COVID virus on all of us. The pandemic has had an important impact both on our clinical work as well as research. As joint editors we’ve had to cope with many reviewers who were unable to review papers and are particularly grateful to those colleagues’ who could, in the face of covid, still participate. We have also lost colleagues, friends, and family members. The passing of Professor Sir Michael Rutter, a giant in the field, has been a singular sad event this past year.
Authors have been able, in the face of covid, to continue working and over 1400 papers were received last year. Of these slightly more than one third were eventually accepted, typically after at least one revision. It remains rare (perhaps 1% of papers) for a paper to be accepted without some revision. On average the turnaround time once a paper is in proper form and can enter the formal review process is a remarkably speedy 18 days. It is important to keep in mind that this is an average and some papers can take much longer to review and that sometimes papers go back to authors one or more times for author revision before they enter the review process. The fast turnaround time is thanks to the efforts of the staff of the Journal office, Lori Klein, and Monica Mleczek, who quickly examine all papers for conformance to basic Journal style and return them for revision before they are assigned to the Editors for review. Both of us are increasingly aware of the pressure of limited Journal space so that most review articles are now routinely referred to our companion journal; Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (RJADD). We also sometimes reject and return articles quickly if we feel that won’t make it through the peer review process. We are, of course, always mindful that the latter is not always perfect, but it is what we have to ensure quality. Apart from editorials and book reviews, all papers in the Journal go through a rigorous double-anonymous review process. We also remind authors, again, that the very, very fast pace of publication (sometimes only a few days once an article has been accepted) means that any errors within text will be published as well and we regret the rise in errata publications that reflect the rapidity of this process and the importance for authors to be certain that papers submitted are in final form. In the future we will try to even more rigorously screen papers so that all the required elements are there before the paper goes out for review. We also encourage authors to use the option of online publication of supplementary material as “Extra Supplementary Material” (ESM); this saves valuable Journal space while providing authors with the opportunity to give readers important ancillary material.
We remind authors that duplicate publication is not allowed, and authors certify this to us as part of the submission process along with ethical research conduct and so forth. Springer Nature is a member of COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics, and the COPE guidelines are followed for all research integrity issues that come up in relation to JADD articles both under review and published.
We continue to see submissions of scholarly papers from around the world. This past year we received papers from 68 countries. We appreciate the increased interest and scholarship in developing countries as well as those with more established research and clinical enterprises. We are pleased to note that our impact factor rose to 4.3 last year, which is excellent, especially given that JADD is a specialty journal.
We encourage special issues of topics of interest to our readership. This past year we had a special celebrating the 40th anniversary of autism’s first official recognition in the DSM-III, as well as special section on Early Detection in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The Journal continues to expand its editorial board and add Associate Editors as members rotate on and off. We bid farewell to several Associate editors who provided very valuable service to the Journal over the years: Christopher J. McDougle, M.D., James C. McPartland, Ph.D., and Gerrit Ian Van Schalkwyk, M.D.
The Journal is deeply grateful for the continued dedication of the remaining Associate Editors: Alice S. Carter, Ph.D., Craig A. Erickson, M.D., Carla Mazefsky, Ph.D., Patricia A. Prelock, Ph.D., Brian Reichow, Ph.D., Shafali Spurling Jeste, M.D., Hanna Stevens, M.D., Ph.D., Giacomo Vivanti, Ph.D., and Marc Woodbury-Smith, PhD, MRC Psych. We welcome the following new associate editors: Mark J. Brosnan, Ph.D., Steve Camarata, Ph.D., Lawrence Fung, M.D., Ph.D., and Matthew D. Lerner, Ph.D.
The associate editors, office staff and we also extend our very best wishes and many thanks to Jennifer Hadley as Senior Editor and Soren Malpass, Editorial Assistant at Springer.
In the Journal office we wish to thank Lori Klein, Editorial Manager, Monica Mleczek and Lizzie Ponder, Editorial Assistants, who not only work tirelessly with authors and reviewers to assist with the submission process, but they also work diligently to ensure that every submission conforms to JADD standards before it enters peer review, thereby streamlining the process for the Editor and Associate Editors.
In the upcoming year we will be working on many projects, including developing suggestions for inclusive language as well as providing guidelines for the types of high-quality research that are likely to be favorably reviewed for publication in JADD. Both terminology and standards change over time, and the JADD editors and editorial board who have been working to improve the quality of life for individuals on the autism spectrum, wish to be both inclusive and sensitive. We feel that this, in turn, promotes a more just and inclusive humankind.
Listed in the following section are the names of the individuals who have contributed one or more reviews to the Journal this year. We apologize if we have missed anyone! Again, although far from perfect, peer review remains the most effective way for the field to ensure the quality of the scholarly product. JADD thanks these individuals for their hard work and dedication.
Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. and Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D.
Co-editors
Sarah Abdallah
Sana Abu-Dahab
Dawn Adams
Lynn Adams
John Agnew
Seppo Ahlfors
Si-Nae Ahn
Kenneth Aitken
Yusuf Akemoğlu
Jessica Akers
Janeth Aleman-Tovar
Eglal Ali
Issa Alkinj
Richard Allen
Mohammed Allouh
Bander Alotaibi
Mohammad Altamimi
Haitham Amal
Stephanie Ameis
Joon-Yong An
David Anaki
Karyn Kai Anderson
Ligia Antezana
Kevin Antshel
Saeed Anwar
Yuta Aoki
Manijheh Arabi
Mary Jo Archambaul
L. Eugene Arnold
Maria Claudia Arvigo
Susan G. Assouline
Melinda Jones Ault
Frank Avenilla
J.B. Axe
Amaria Baghdadli
Christopher Baglio
Vanessa Bal
Giulia Balboni
Brian Barger
Erinn Nell Barry
Erin Barton
Elke Baten
Raman Baweja
Kimberly Bean
Myriam Beauchamp
Renae Beaumont
Alessio Bellato
Dorit ben Shalom
Kari Berquist
David Beversdorf
Lucy Bilaver
Federico Bionda
Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird
Vicki Bitsika
Jan Blacher
Melissa Black
Abigail Blackman
Pamela Block
Jessica Blume
Jonna Bobzien
Irina Boksha
Evan Bordt
Kristen Bottema-Beutel
Brian Boyd
Kathryn Bradbury
Casey Bradford
Jessica Bradshaw
James Brasic
Alexis Brewe
Jessica A. Brian
Samuel Brice
Noah Britton
Briana Bronstein
Charlotte Brownlow
Magdalena Budisteanu
Lauren Bullard
Jenny Burton
Amy Camodeca
Ricardo Canal-Bedia
Jamie Capal
Simone Josephine Capp
Teresa Cardon
Sarah Carlon
Christina Carnahan
Amarie Carnett
Laura Carpenter
Thierry Chaminade
Jeffrey Chan
Tara Chandrasekhar
Shawn R. Charlton
Yu-Lun Chen
Yun-Ju Chen
Gail Chodron
Roula Choueiri
Tessa Clarkson
David Cochran
Aimee Code
Emily Coderre
Ketti Johnson Coffelt
Ira Cohen
Marija Čolić
Laura María Compañ-Gabucio
Caitlin Conner
Paul Constable
Barbara Cook
Edwin Cook
Blythe Corbett
Daniel Coury
Alison Cox
Emma Craig
Hayley Crawford
Pamela Crooke
Meixia Dai
Amy Daniels
Nicole Dargue
Talena Day
Andres De Los Reyes
Berenice de la Cruz
Taynara de Lima
Pieter De Nijs
Richard de Visser
Petrus J de Vries
Michelle Dean
Anders Dechsling
Naoko Deguchi
Stephen I. Deutsch
Briano Di Rezze
Thiago Dias
Gabriel Dichter
Cheryl Dickter
Joshua Diehl
Sylvia Diehl
Peter Doehring
Hirokazu Doi
Smadar Dolev
Michail Doumas
Barbara Dritschel
Michaela DuBay
Amie Duncan
David Dunn
Shaun M. Eack
Rita Eagle
Karen Eastman
Stephen Edelson
Jamie Edgin
Ayşegül Efe
Inge-Marie Eigsti
Abbey Eisenhower
Leif Ekblad
Farah El Zein
Rebecca Elias
Kimberly Ellison
Yael Enav
Karen Engel
Joshua Ewen
Graeme Fairchild
Susan Faja
Nicholas Fears
Deborah Fein
Kristina Cottle Feldman
Sarah Fenn
Rachel Fenning
Jenny Ferguson
Fernanda Fernandes
Elisabeth Fernell
Elizabeth Biggs
James Findon
Julia Fisher
Marisa Fisher
Leigh Fisler
Michael Fitzgerald
Richard Fleming
Jill Fodstad
Eric Fombonne
Aiden Ford
Thomas Frazier
Christine Freitag
Jonathan Friedel
Laura Friedman
Elspeth Froude
Richard Frye
Hiroshi Fujino
Junya Fujino
Takao Fukui
Avia Fux-Noy
Yuanyuan Gao
Emily Gardiner
Pankaj Garg
Monique Germone
Mohammad Ghaziuddin
Kristen Gillespie-Lynch
Nadja Ging-Jehli
Paul Glaser
Sanjay Gokhale
Tina Goldsmith
Marientina Gotsis
Doriane Gras
Renee Green
Jessica Greenlee
Sarah Greenwell
Elena Grigorenko
Amanda Gulsrud
Serena Gumusoglu
Guan Guo
Yangrong Guo
Ava Gurba
Jennifer Hall-Lande
Chen Han
Jolynn Haney
Sarah Hansen
Antonio Hardan
Ashley Harrison
Laura Hart
Kathryn Hauschild
Nikita Hayden
Huizhong He
Adam Rafael Helles
Gerardo Herrera
Joe Hettinger
Emily Hickey
Hilda Ho
Ryan Ho
Matthew Hollocks
Jessica Hooker
Shari Hopkins
Yamini Howe
Dan Howitt
Shunbo Hu
Xiaoyi Hu
Rebekah Hudock
Laura Hull
Rachel Hundley
Tiffany Hutchins
Karim Ibrahim
Kajsa Igelström
Brooke Ingersoll
Georgi Iskrov
Salomon Israel
Michelle Ivey
Rachel Jellett
Alexander Jensen
Jeremy Jewell
Xinrui Jiang
Robert M. Joseph
Aaron Kaat
Louise Kaczmarek
Rachel Kallus
Carla Kalvin
Kelly Kamimura-Nishimura
Sagayaraj Kanagaraj
Erin Kang
Veronica Kang
Stephen Kanne
Connie Kasari
Terry Katz
Nilay Kayhan
veena KD
Brandon Keehn
Elliot Keenan
Elizabeth Kelley
Jennifer Keluskar
Betsy Kemeny
Lauren Kenworthy
Connor Morrow Kerns
Rouhallah Khara
SunKyoung Kim
Yael Kimhi
Melissa King
Anne Kirby
Janina Kitzerow
Bonita (Bonnie) Klein-Tasman
Ami Klin
Chia-Tzu Ko
Robert L. Koegel
Kathy Koenig
Amanda Kotolski
Evangelia Koukouriki
Jennifer Kremkow
Ankita Krishnan
Kim Kroeger
Sunil Kumar
Henny Kupferstein
Grace M. Kuravackel
Andreas Kuss
Metehan Kutlu
Vasileios Ladas
Ann Lagges
Russ Lang
Marc Lanovaz
Kenneth Larsen
Elizabeth Laugeson
Thomas L Layton
Justin Leaf
Eli Lebowitz
Luc Lecavalier
Brian Lee
James Lee
Kwangwon Lee
Jiedi Lei
Gerry Leisman
Jenna Lequia
Alan Seth Lewis
Jun Li
Xiaoyan Li
Ching-Yi Liao
Francisco Villegas Lirola
Guodong Liu
Hua Liu
Rachel Loftin
Nirali Lohiya
D. Loparo
Mauricio López-Espejo
Nicole Luke
Jordan Lukins
Emily Lund
Kristen Lyall
Debra Lynn Cote
Suzanne Macari
Brenna Maddox
Joseph Maes
Iliana Magiati
Maria Marinopoulou
Marlina Mulik
Claudia Martinez
Raquel Martinez
Johnny Matson
Kenta Matsumura
Chris May
Micah Mazurek
Luigi Mazzone
Tomomi McAuliffe
Christina McDonnell
Jennifer McFarland-Whisman
Margaret McGonigle-Chalmers
Susan McHugh
Camilla McMahon
Serena Micheletti
Susanna Mierau
Anna Milgramm
John Miller
Elliot Millington
Pat Mirenda
Bahram Mohajer
Jessica Monahan
Carlos Eduardo Monteiro
Cecilia Montiel-Nava
Heather Moore
Lindee Morgan
Michael Morrier
Hannah Morton
Matthew Mosconi
Margaret Mosher
Reem Muharib
Deirdre Muldoon
Aisling Mulligan
Ellen Kathrine Munkhaugen
Magandhree Naidoo
Charles Nelson
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Christos Nikopoulos
Firoozeh Nilchian
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Heather Nuske
Karen O'Connor
Sam Odom
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Heath Pardoe
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Linda Petersson-Bloom
Yosheen Pillay
Daniele Piscitelli
Michael D. Powers
Debra Prykanowski
Jen Quigley
Linda Quirmbach
Petya Radoeva
Rebecca Ramnauth
James Rankin
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Brian Reichow
Erin Reilly
Debra Reisinger
Amanda Richdale
Kristina Rios
Mélina Rivard
Neil Roach
Diana Robins
Carol Rockhill
Isabel Rodriguez-Ortiz
Donald Rojas
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Nicole Rosen
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Volkmar, F.R., Koegel, L.K. Editorial 2021: A Year in Review. J Autism Dev Disord 52, 1903–1907 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05519-w
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