Fox教授自2010年继UCLA的Stewart教授后上任新的Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering总主编。Fox教授今年4月于该刊发表editorial 总结，概括了一下该刊去年（2010）的论文发表录用等情况。
Patrick J. Fox, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Editor in Chief, Professor, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Univ. of
California–San Diego.
Fox教授大概是2009年从OSU俄亥俄州立大学（美国很强很大的一所公立大学）移到UCSD(加州圣地亚哥分校）的，然后接替UCLA的stewart教授任JGGE的总主编的。
The following article is the State of the Journal report for 2010 for the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (JGGE). Publication of such end-of-year reports fulfills one of my goals as editor in chief.
The JGGE strengthened its position in 2010 as a leading worldwide publication venue for both the practicing and research geotechnical engineering communities. I am pleased to report that the latest metrics are excellent. The JGGE has the highest circulation of all geotechnical journals and is currently the largest of the ASCE journals by submissions, pages published, and papers published. The number of new manuscripts submitted reached a record of 611 in 2010, exceeding last year’s total by more than 100. The number of revised manuscripts received was 392. The acceptance
rate for 2010 was the lowest on record at 28%. The one-year and five-year impact factors were 1.09 and 1.44, respectively, both the highest on record. The Web-based Editorial Manager system continues to provide increased efficiency in manuscript handling and has allowed the Editorial Board to significantly reduce manuscript turnaround times. The average time to first decision was 5 months in 2010, which is a significant improvement as compared to several years ago, before the use of Editorial Manager.
全年总共611篇投稿，录用392篇。IF不断提升啊，1.09到1.44了。
Changes to the Editorial Board include the retirement of Jonathan Stewart as chief editor in April. The JGGE prospered over the previous 3 years under Jon’s very capable leadership. Kenneth Fishman also retired as editor in 2010, after a long period of excellent service to the JGGE. New editors Iraj Noorany, formerly of San Diego State University, and Joseph Wartman, of the University of Washington, were added to the board in 2010. They, along with continuing editors Mo Gabr and Vaughan Griffiths, make an outstanding editorial team, and it is my privilege to work with them. The following Editorial Board members (EBMs) also retired: Jonathan Bray, George Gazetas, Dennis Grubb, Erik Loehr, Ning Lu, George Mylonakis, Daniel Whang, Andrew Whittle, and Hai-Sui Yu. The editors sincerely thank these individuals for their years of dedicated service to the JGGE. Four new EBMs were added in 2010: John McCartney of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Monica Prezzi of Purdue University, Abdul-Hamid
Soubra of the University of Nantes, and Lianyang Zhang of the University of Arizona. The editors look forward to working with them and our continuing EBMs, to enhance the reputation of the JGGE worldwide in the coming years. Similarly, I would like to take this opportunity to invite leading professionals in practice and academia to consider serving on the Editorial Board and contributing to the mission of excellence for the JGGE.
该刊的一个大的改动就是editorial board现在由editor-in-chief,也就是prof.Fox担任，还有4个editors把关，另外其他的编委现在统统称为associate editors，这点貌似是模仿canadian geotechnical journal的，他家若干年前就是这么做的，香港的charles NG和J.H.Yin教授老早就是他家的副主编，这样也可以覆盖编委会人员到更多的大洲。几个华人届的教授以及美国若干大学荣休教授退出编辑部了，包括大名鼎鼎的陆宁，余海岁教授等。
目前在JGGE中的副主编有中国人Jie Han, Ph.D., P.E., University of Kansas ，刚刚结束的GEO2011的chair。
另外两位是
Lianyang Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., University of Arizona ，MIT爱因斯坦教授的高徒，是做岩石方向的
Limin Zhang, Ph.D., The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology ，这个张利民教授相信大家都认识的。
貌似搞岩土的姓张的都很厉害，哈哈，2位张教授在JGGE编辑部啊。。。
The award for Outstanding Editorial Board Member for 2010 goes to Anand J. Puppala of the University of Texas at Arlington. This award is made annually by the JGGE editors to an EBM who displays extraordinary dedication to the responsibilities of manuscript review management, including timely handling of a large number of papers and careful evaluation of review comments to provide quality publication recommendations. Our sincere thanks go to Anand as well as all of our excellent EBMs who handle the daily workload of paper management for the JGGE. The award will
be given in Dallas at Geo-Frontiers 2011.
Starting in 2011, our EBMs will have the new title of associate editor, which is more consistent with other ASCE journals and with their role of providing recommendations toward publication decisions. I am also especially pleased to announce that ASCE has agreed to my request that all associate editors receive complimentary copies of the JGGE in recognition of their service. The editors are sincerely grateful for this meaningful gesture of appreciation to our hard-working associate editors. The Editorial Board continues its efforts to encourage the publication of papers that directly benefit engineering practice.
In consultation with the Technical Publications Committee of the Geo-Institute, we are working to identify practice-oriented papers, such as those from G-I conferences, for possible publication in the JGGE. In addition, the JGGE has a new article submission category of “Case Study” to highlight project-specific papers in the table of contents for each issue.
In closing, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the outstanding and dedicated service of our Editorial Board in 2010. I look forward to working with the board members and the many excellent reviewers and authors to maintain the JGGE at the highest level of excellence worldwide. The success of the JGGE is also attributed not in small part to the efforts of the staff of the ASCE Journals Department, and in particular, Jennifer Parresol, our editorial coordinator, who provides ongoing support and assistance to the JGGE. As editor in chief, I welcome your comments and
suggestions on ways in which we can improve our Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
总体看来JGGE发表周期在不断缩短，同3大岩土期刊中的其他两种（Geotechnique, Canadian Geotech Journal)相比。Geotechnique的发表周期我见过本年度发表的是2005年submit first manuscript的，到2010年才accept，其中艰难可想而知。总之感觉JGGE是比较人性化的，而且也不是那么排外，中国学者的论文每期都可以看得到。
