An overview of JIEM ’ s second year , and a prospect of its third

This editorial honors the tradition established in the Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) since its inception, of presenting some relevant information about the evolution of JIEM during 2009, and about the future directions of the journal. We focus on issues concerning the quality of the journal (editorial board and reviewing process), prestige (progress on indexation), social responsibility and financial viability. We also provide information about the future evolution of JIEM, advancing the contents of the special issues planned for 2010 and 2011.


Introduction
With this editorial, we honor the tradition established in JIEM since its inception (Simo, Enache, Sallan & Fernandez, 2009, Fernandez, Simo, Sallan & Enache, 2008), of presenting some relevant and (we expect) interesting information about the evolution of JIEM during the past year to the journal stakeholders, and to the scientific community.This editorial states also our policy regarding the following years about issues such as the journal's social responsibility and financial viability.
The topics of this editorial cover the issues on which, according to Simo, Garcia-Parra, Sunyer, Trullas & Jorda (2006), must focus the editors of a scientific journal in its first years of publication: quality, prestige, social responsibility and financial viability.We will assess the journal quality giving information about the editorial board and the reviewing process, and about some features of the articles

Items published
As stated in the home page of its website, the aim of JIEM is to contribute to the advance of the Industrial Engineering and Management, in the following fields:   An overview of JIEM's second year, and a prospect of its third 4 J. M Sallan; M. Enache; M. Albareda-Sambola; V. Fernandez; P. Simo

Reviewers and editorial board
Although the main responsibility (for good and for worse) of editorial decisions resides on the editorial team, we would like to thank the help and support of the editorial board, whose members have helped to foster the quality of the journal.
The journal website reports the editorial team in the present moment.Therefore, in doi:10.3926/jiem.2010.v3n1.p1-10JIEM, 2010 -3(1): 1-10 -Online ISSN: 2013-0953 Print ISSN: 2013-8423 An overview of JIEM's second year, and a prospect of its third 2 J. M Sallan; M. Enache; M. Albareda-Sambola; V. Fernandez; P. Simo published.The prestige of a scientific journal comes from its indexation in databases of scientific information.Although JIEM has just reached its second year of life, we are proud to report some significant advances on that matter.The social responsibility of JIEM comes from being an open access journal.We believe that JIEM contributes to the advance of scientific knowledge in regions where the access to scientific information can become a scarce resource.Therefore we will report some data concerning the diffusion of JIEM throughout the world.For an open access journal, the question of financial viability is a relevant one.This editorial includes a statement of our present policy about JIEM funding.Finally, we conclude the editorial with some news concerning JIEM future issues.2 Journal quality: reviewing process and editorial team 2.1 Reviewing process As most academic journals, the editorial decisions in JIEM are grounded on the opinion of anonymous reviewers, following the usual peer-review process.In 2009, the editorial activity of JIEM can be summarized in the following figures: we received 85 manuscripts for review, of which 9 were rejected for being out of the editorial foci of interest of the journal.The remaining 76 manuscripts underwent the double-blind reviewing process.As a result, 48 were rejected and 28 were accepted for publication.Therefore, the rejection rate in 2009 is of the 67.06 %, if we consider all manuscripts submitted, or the 63.16%, if we consider only the peer-reviewed manuscripts.Comparing to 2008, the number of manuscripts received has risen considerably (from 38 to 85), but the number of articles published has risen only slightly (from 23 to 28).To the 28 scientific articles published, we must add the two editorials (one in the first issue of 2008 and another in the special issue), to obtain the 30 items published in JIEM in 2009.

Table 1
Production, Logistics, Quality and Operational Research (PROD); Information Systems, Technology and Communication (IS); Industrial Economics and Regional Development (IND); Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management (MANAG); Finance, Accounting and Marketing in Industrial Sectors ."Items published in the Vol. 2 (2009) of JIEM, by field".Source: Editors As can be seen in table 1, the Production field has been the most prolific one in JIEM during 2009.The present policy of JIEM is publishing in all fields related to Industrial Engineering and Management.Therefore, the editors encourage scholars working in the other fields different from Production and Operations Research to submit their manuscripts to JIEM.

Table 2
worked in academic institutions outside of Spain.This fact consolidates the international character of JIEM.We hope to receive contributions from more countries in the future, in addition to the present ones.

Table 3 .
table3we have listed the members of the board in 2009.We have marked with an asterisk (*) the members that joined the board in 2009.The present editorial board reflects the efforts undertaken through 2009 to make it more international, and to increase the number of women."List of members of JIEM editorial board in 2009 (Production, Logistics, Quality and Operational Research).Members added in 2009 are marked with asterisk".Source: editors.

Table 4 .
"List of members of JIEM editorial board in 2009 (Information Systems, Technology and Communication).Members added in 2009 are marked with asterisk".Source: editors.