@article{Schutte_2022, title={NOTE FROM THE EDITOR}, volume={33}, url={https://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/2740}, DOI={10.7166/33-1-2740}, abstractNote={<p>“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” - Henry Ford</p><p>Taking up Henry Ford on his challenge, in February this year, the editorial team had a strategic session to discuss the journal’s positioning, and how we can better serve our authors and readers. </p><p>As an outcome of this session: </p><ul><li>We are pleased with the positioning of the journal, as a fully accredited and ISI and Scopus indexed journal. Authors are using this journal as a learning platform to give our emerging authors the necessary exposure to the world of academic publishing. We would, however, like to remain a preferred publication for the more seasoned South African authors as well.</li><li>According to ScimagoJR, the journal is at the high end of a Q3 journal, and we aspire to improve the rankings to that of a Q2 journal.</li><li>We would like to publish 16-20 articles per edition. In order to do that, we identified bottlenecks in our current editorial process and have already implemented changes that are speeding up our process significantly.</li><li>Thanks to the faster review process, we will not only publish more per edition, but have moved the target publication dates for the first two editions a month earlier, with edition 1 towards the end of April and edition 2 towards the end of July.</li><li>Since the journal is owned by the South African Institute for Industrial Engineering (SAIIE), one of the SAIIE Annual Awards will now be for the best paper published in SAJIE.</li><li>The journal is currently published using open-source software (OJS), using an old version of the software which is therefore no longer state of the art. We are busy investigating an upgrade of the system to a more recent version that will expose our authors, reviewers and readers to a more user-friendly and pleasant on-line environment. This will require that we take the journal off-line for a few days.</li></ul><p>This edition has a total of 14 articles, with nine from authors with South African connections and the balance from international authors. The publication date is 6 May, which is three weeks earlier than 2021, and the number of articles in this edition is already higher than the average in 2021 – a good indication that the decisions taken at our editorial team strategy session are having an impact!</p><p>If you have suggestions on how we can take this journal forward, please let me know.</p><div> </div>}, number={1}, journal={The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering}, author={Schutte, Corne}, year={2022}, month={May}, pages={iii} }