This issue marks the end of my term after more than four years as editor of ASQ. It has been a time of significant and positive change for the journal, reflecting changes in the field and the world, as well as changes that our editorial team has made. ASQ has grown a lot. We had 418 submissions in 2016 and 541 in 2019. As I write this, our 2020 submissions are more than a month ahead of the 2019 pace. Not surprisingly, this means we also publish more papers now. For years ASQ was known for publishing only 16 papers per year, and 2016 was no exception, but we now have 28 per volume plus a robust queue of articles published online for future issues. We have grown from just over 700 pages in 2016 to more than 1,000 pages per volume. We have our authors to thank for this growth because we are just as selective as ever—and even more impactful per the usual citation statistics. And this growth would not have happened without the outstanding work of our associate editors, editorial board, and ad hoc reviewers, who devote much time and energy to nurturing the best submissions and guiding them toward publication.

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这个问题标志着我在ASQ担任四年以上编辑后的任期结束。这是该期刊发生重大，积极变化的时期，反映了该领域和世界的变化以及我们编辑团队所做的变化。ASQ增长了很多。我们在2016年提交了418份申请，在2019年提交了541份。在我撰写本文时，我们2020年的提交比2019年的进度提前了一个多月。毫不奇怪，这意味着我们现在还发表更多论文。多年来ASQ以每年仅发表16篇论文而著称，2016年也不例外，但我们现在每册28篇，此外还有针对未来问题在线发表的大量文章。我们已经从2016年的700多页增长到每卷1000余页。我们要感谢作者的成长，因为我们一如既往地具有选择性-并且根据通常的引用统计数据甚至更具影响力。没有我们的副编辑，编辑委员会和专案审稿人的出色工作，就不会实现这种增长，他们要花费大量的时间和精力来培养最好的论文并指导他们走向出版。