We hope that this editorial finds our readers safe and well. Perhaps by the time this editorial appears relief will be on the horizon, rather as we in Europe thought at midsummer. The COVID-19 measures have slowed down our work somewhat, and we can also report that submissions are up some 40% in the past year. This development comes on top of a gratifying increase in our two-year and, more importantly, also our five-year impact factor as a journal. Both developments are wonderful news for the journal, demonstrating that the EJIR is as popular a repository as ever for both authors, readers, and for citations by appreciative scholars worldwide. However, this increased volume of manuscripts places even more competitive pressures on our authors. It also means that there is simply more editorial work to do for the same number of people, adding to the pressures of the pandemic, and thus we hope that our reviewers and authors will bear with us in terms of patience. We hope that we are maintaining the editorial standards to which we pledged ourselves when we took on the EJIR. We also are immensely grateful for the support of so many reviewers in these difficult times. As we have said before, our experience at the journal has been of the best side of peer review.

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我们希望这篇社论能使我们的读者感到安全和健康。也许到这篇社论出现的时候，浮雕就会浮出水面，而不是像我们仲夏欧洲人所想的那样。COVID-19措施在某种程度上减慢了我们的工作速度，我们还可以报告说，过去一年提交的材料增加了约40％。这一发展是在我们两年的可喜增长，更重要的是，我们作为期刊的五年影响因子的增长。两项进展对于该杂志而言都是好消息，这表明《电子期刊杂志》无论是对于作者，读者还是全球欣赏学者的引用，它都像以前一样受欢迎。但是，手稿数量的增加给我们的作者带来了更大的竞争压力。这也意味着，对于相同人数的人，要做的只是更多的编辑工作，这增加了大流行的压力，因此，我们希望我们的审稿人和作者在耐心方面与我们保持一致。我们希望我们能保持接受EJIR时承诺的编辑标准。我们也非常感谢在如此困难的时期有这么多审稿人的支持。如前所述，我们在该杂志上的经验是同行评审的最佳方面。