This year the Portuguese Economic Journal (PEJ) continued building on the positive
trend of recent years. The number of new submissions continued their steady growth
process initiated in 2014 and by September 2017, we had already reached the total
for 2016. Furthermore, we now have a backlog of accepted papers that allows us to
publish one issue in advance.
Considering these positive trends, the executive board (ExB) of PEJ decided to
anticipate the publication dates of issues by one month each year, starting in 2018,
until we reach the final publication schedule in 2020: January, May, and September.
Therefore, the first issue for the 17th volume will be published in March 2018, the
second issue will be out in July, and the final one in November. This brings PEJ’s
publication schedule in line with leading generalist journals and increases visibility
of accepted articles.

• Editors’ note