1. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Status Report
Garrison W. Greenwood
Editor-in-Chief
June 2013 1

2. Special Issues Understand Complex Evolutionary Systems
Published in April 2013 issue
Advances in Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms for Data Mining ( 4 Revise & Resubmit, 4 rejected)
Proposal on Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation has been approved. CFP is published in current issue. 2

3. Impact Factor
According to the ISI journal citation reports, the 2011 impact factor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation is 3.34.
This places the journal 22nd among 463 computer science journals. 3

4. Current Queue Size
As of May 29th there were 40 papers in the publication queue. 4

5. Staff Editor
My IEEE staff editor has been replaced (again). The current editor is Stephanie Brown. 5

6. Statistics
Manuscript Type
Submitted
(year to date)
Monthly Avg
letters 13
2.6
regular papers
284
56.8
total
297
NOTE: These figures are a bit high because it includes immediate rejects for not complying with submission requirements. A 10% reduction is reasonable. 6

7. Statistics (con't) Journal Statistics Prior 12 Months
avg sub to 1st decision
38.3 days
avg reviewer turnaround
(original)
38.7 days
(revision)
37 day*
avg time to assign reviewers
8.8 days
avg time sub to final decision
38.8 days
acceptance rate
7.1% 7