Reflections

Abstract

This issue of Reflections recognises the hardy group of peer reviewers that support and drive the publication of papers in the Journal. It’s a hackneyed expression but these folk do make a difference. They deserve our huge thanks. As the first issue of the year, it is also ‘numbers’ time looking back at the metrics for the first year of the ‘new’ JIB. The publications in 2023 came from ten countries demonstrating the global nature of research into malting, brewing and distilling. Google Analytics shows there were nigh on 5000 visitors to the Journal website, from 111 countries with 29% originating from the USA, 27% from the UK, 13% from China and 7% from Germany. Of the 16 papers, four editorials and one letter to the Editor there were > 11,000 views of abstracts and > 6,100 downloads of pdfs.  Finally, there is an update on the KPIs that track the time for steps in the process and compares them with 2023.