Chemosphere是我比较喜欢投稿的期刊之一，也非常幸运地在上面刊登了几篇论文。然而随着近年来投稿量，尤其是中国人的灌水量增加，这个期刊的处理速度已经非常慢了。由此带来的是编辑巨大的工作压力。Chemosphere最新一期的社论文章刊登了新主编斯内德先生从业一周年的心路历程。文笔真挚，情感充沛，可谓是掏心掏肺地跟读者在交底。下面摘录其中的一小段: "However, the journal statistics were positivity daunting and the workload seemed insurmountable. She spoke about the rapid growth in submissions, particularly from China. It was hard to believe that the journal I began reading in the 1994, which then seemed dominated by European and North American articles on persistent organic pollutants, had grown to a high impact, globally recognized journal with over 3000 annual submissions. How could an EIC possibly handle this immense workload and responsibility? This seemed especially challenging considering my relatively new transition to academics and identical twin two year old daughters and seven year old son...."

我看后一时手欠，给这个编辑写了封信。没想到半小时后，主编先生回信了！

Hello Wang:

I am so happy to get this email from you.  I appreciate this more than words can express.  I hope we can meet sometime and toast for Chemosphere.I do love working with the journal, but for sure it is not easy....You can ALWAYS write to me, I am glad to get these kinds of letters-both expressing positives and negatives about the journal.

哎，编辑真的不容易啊！

社论全文见word附件chem.doc或访问期刊网站

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565351500836X