Welcome to the 2021 volume of the Group Decision and Negotiation journal. For many of us, 2020 was an eventful year. Due to the challenges from the worldwide Covid-19 scare, work practices changed, digitalization efforts were tested, collaborations took a different format, and remote work and videoconferencing were at the forefront. The GDN 2020 Conference in Toronto had to be postponed due to the pandemic and also the GDN 2021 Conference will have to take place virtually.
Last year was also a tragic year for the journal. Gregory Kersten, our Editor-in-Chief, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in May 2020. He was a leading member of the GDN community and worked effortlessly on improving the journal. As a community we are immensely grateful for his dedication and we will honor his memory.
We were asked to take over the role as interim editors-in-chief after Gregory’s passing and we are grateful for the broad support from the GDN community that helped us in keeping the journal on track. We would like to thank the GDN board, the GDN members, and Springer for entrusting us with the journal when we became the permanent Editors-in-Chief in November 2020. We are convinced that working together as a team will benefit the journal.
1 The 2020 Volume and Beyond
The GDN 2020 volume produced a strong collection of submissions and published papers. We received a total of 257 submissions. The 6 issues of the journal published a total of 46 papers. The journal’s metrics are also strong: The average time to a first decision dropped from 92 to 52 days, which represents a remarkable improvement. The journal’s h-index is 55. These metrics are testimony to Gregory’s dedication and hard work during his tenure as Editor-in-Chief.
We aim to strengthen these metrics as we move into the 2021 volume. We will endeavor to continue to build on the journal’s reputation as a top journal in its area. Specifically, we will invite and welcome review papers and research agenda papers, organize special issues on current topics, and actively share each issue’s contents on various listservers and social media.
While the average time to a first decision has dropped considerable, we will continue to improve this metric as well as the overall time it takes to reach a decision. It is an important service to our community that authors will learn about the decision on their manuscript in a timely fashion, regardless of whether it is the initial decision or a decision on a revision of a manuscript. We will aim to improve these metrics by actively monitoring papers’ progress and getting support from our editorial board members.
2 The Editorial Board and Reviewers
The Group Decision and Negotiation journal is fortunate to have a committed editorial board and group of reviewers. They work tirelessly to assess the contributions and quality of each submission that is entered into the review process. They assist the authors through constructive criticism to ensure that each published paper makes a significant contribution to the Group Decision and Negotiation body of knowledge.
We are extremely grateful to our current editorial board members, several of whom have carried a heavy load. We truly appreciate their hard work and dedication during the past year. In 2021, there are going to be some changes to our board as a number of board members have indicated their desire to retire. Also, we will invite new colleagues to the board in an effort to optimize the coverage of the journal’s various research areas and to pursue diversity on the board in terms of global regions, gender, career stage, and ethnicity. We will report on the changes to the editorial board in a future issue.
We wish to acknowledge the many reviewers for their efforts that made last year’s volume possible. In particular, the Editorial Board and us are happy to recognize the following individuals as the “Best GDN Reviewers of 2020” for going above and beyond in their efforts to strengthen the quality of the papers considered for the journal:
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Ulle Endriss
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Alexander Karpov
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Muhammed-Fatih Kaya
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Aleksei Y. Kondratev
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Thomas Alexander O'Neill
Finally, the Editorial Board and us would like recognize all reviewers for the 2020 Volume. Without their commitment to our journal it would not have been possible to produce timely, high quality issues:
Mark Aakhus
Hillie Aaldering
Anand Abraham
Marc Adam
Abdelkader Adla
Juan Aguarón
Muhammad Akram
Emel Aktas
Naif Alawi
Jose Alcalde
Jorge Alcalde-Unzu
Fuad Aleskerov
José Maria Alonso Meijide
Mikel Alvarez-Mozos
Adriana Amaya
Pedro Antunes
Deniz Appelbaum
Michal Araszkiewicz
Ryuta Arisaka
Aram Bahrini
Ying Bao
Abul Bashar
Lorenzo Bastianello
Jan Bazan
Femke Bekius
Emilia Bellucci
Sarah BenAmor
Gustavo Bergantinos
Peter Berggren
Paweł Błaszczyk
Zorica Bogdanović
Surajit Borkotokey
Mathieu Bourgais
Jeanne Brett
Matteo Brunelli
John Bryson
William Caballero
Francisco Javier Cabrerizo
Christopher Califf
Guy Camilleri
Fabio Caraffini
Davide Carneiro
Zhen-Song Chen
Yu-An Chen
Zan Chen
Xusen Cheng
Zhor Chergui
Yeri Cho
Jason Choi
Eileen Chou
Deborah Cohn
Thomas Connolly
Joao Costa
Larry Crump
Suzana Daher
Francesca Dal Mas
Mats Danielson
Andreas Darmann
Vincent de Gooyert
Lihi Dery
Luis Dias
Stephen Diasio
Ru-Xi Ding
Yucheng Dong
William Donohue
Viktor Dörfler
Bram Driesen
Juan Dubra
Peter Duersch
Gourav Dwivedi
Tom Eich
Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Kyle Emich
Aysegül Engin
Pedro Falcão
Michael Filzmoser
Keaton Fletcher
Vito Fragnelli
Eduarda Frej
Ray Friedman
Chao Fu
Naoki Fukuta
Ricardo Gabbay de Souza
Jianwei Gao
Arindam Garai
José Manuel Giménez-Gómez
Henner Gimpel
Zaiwu Gong
Erick Gonzalez
Dorota Gorecka
Martin Gregor
Michele Griessmair
Bushra Guenoun
Elisabeth Guenther
Weixiao Guo
Rafik Hadfi
Raimo Hamalainen
Fieke Harinck
Luciana Hazin
Shawei He
Carla Henriques
Uta Herbst
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers
Shih-Cheng Horng
Jack Shih-Chieh Hsu
Joachim Hueffmeier
Ilwoo Hwang
Nima Jafari Navimipour
Simon James
Daisung Jang
Arshad Javed
Andrés Jiménez-Losada
Antonio Jiménez-Martín
David Johnstone
Peter Jordan
Eric Kamwa
Serguei Kaniovski
Daniel Karabekyan
Emin Karagozoglu
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos
Parmjit Kaur
Jessica Kennedy
Victoria Kennel
Mary Kern
Yann Kervinio
Werner Kirsch
Usha Kiruthika
David Kocsis
Jacqueline Konaté
Dejun Tony Kong
Kathy Kotiadis
George Krimpas
Serkan Kucuksenel
Konrad Kułakowski
Sascha Kurz
Álvaro Labella
Jonathan Lee
Picheng Lee
Frieder Lempp
Ernesto Leon Castro
Alexandre Leoneti
Ilkka Leppanen
Juan Leyva Lopez
xuemei Li
Bingsheng Liu
Hu-Chen Liu
Jinpei Liu
Renato Lopes da Costa
Sofia Lundberg
Pasi Luukka
Nicola Friederike Maaser
Andreia Machado
Rahul Marathe
Ricardo Marcão
Luis Martinez
Bilyana Martinovski
Nick Mattei
Alexander Mayer
Jens Mazei
Marleen McCardle-Keurentjes
Paulo Melo
Philipp Melzer
Jose M Merigo
Adrian Miroiu
Arunodaya Mishra
Alexandra Mislin
Danielle Morais
Patricia Moravec
Jose Maria Moreno Jimenez
Jadielson Moura
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Uday Murthy
Syibrah Naim
Lukas Neville
Mehrbakhsh Nilashi
Stefan Olander
António Oliveira
João Oliveira
Ilaria Orlandi
António Osório
Jennifer Parlamis
Brian Phillips
Krzysztof Piasecki
Daniele Porello
Richard Potthoff
Friedrich Pukelsheim
Dan Qin
Mukhunth Raghavan
Francisco Ramos
Laura Rees
Leandro Rêgo
Julia Reif
James Rodgers
Albérico Rosário
Vahab Rostami
Ewa Roszkowska
Etiënne Rouwette
Sankar Roy
Joyce Rupert
Joaquin Sanchez Soriano
Marina Sandomirskaia
Jorge Santos
Shubhro Sarkar
Vanessa Schramm
Gregor Schwarz
Stefan Seifert
Seyoung Seol
Alkmini Sgouritsa
Wen Shan
Sergey Shvydun
Ruchi Sinha
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Dominik Sondern
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Chanta Thomas
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Evangelos Triantaphyllou
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Ece Tuncel
Joseph Valacich
Luis Vargas
Jorge Velez-Castiblanco
Jian-qiang Wang
Justin Wareham
Ashley Whillans
Arnold Wibmer
Frederik Wiedmann
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Zhibin Wu
Yi Xiao
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Bo Yu
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Quanbo Zha
Jun Zhang
Bowen Zhang
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Huanren Zhang
Xiaoqin Zhang
Zhen Zhang
Ronghuo Zheng
Wei Zhou
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de Vreede, GJ., Schoop, M. Editorial. Group Decis Negot 30, 1–5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-021-09726-1
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