Seventy-three manuscripts representing all nine disciplines were submitted in 2008. A summary of the action taken on these manuscripts by discipline is provided in Table 1. The acceptance rate for manuscripts for which a decision has been made is 30.0%.
In 2008, 43 manuscripts were published in the Journal of Cotton Science. Distribution of published manuscripts by discipline is as follows: Agronomy and Soils – 4; Arthropod Management – 3; Breeding and Genetics – 4; Economics and Marketing – 4; Engineering and Ginning – 10; Molecular Biology and Physiology – 3; Plant Pathology and Nematology – 2; Textile Technology – 7; Weed Science – 5; and Editorial Notes - 1.
