Volume 3 (2012) Issue 2
Editorial
The present issue completes the third volume of JLLT
since its inauguration in 2010, and as such, I would like to take the
opportunity to share with our readers a statistic report concerning the number
of publications made in JLLT for the past three years.
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In terms of the origins of the articles,
i.e. the countries their authors were located on publication, the following
countries can be found for articles and university reports
combined:
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As for the continents which JLLT
has reached, our statistical findings show that most of the articles published
in JLLT in its first three years came from Europe (18 articles),
followed by the USA (9), Asia (7), Africa (1) and Australia (1). This means
that in the journal’s first three years all the five continents on our planet have
been represented in the form of publications.
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These figures show that JLLT has
received considerable attention in the academic world within a relatively short
period of time.
Apart from that, the audience of JLLT
also deserves to be mentioned. In terms of reception (pageviews), our statistical
findings, retrieved from the statistics gadget of the journal’s blog, which
serves as its archive, on December 28th, 2012, show the following
picture:
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In a top-ten ranking, based on the same
source, with a total of 12,340 pageviews for the archive alone, i.e. not for
the journal’s website, the current distribution is as follows:
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These figures show that JLLT is
most frequently visited online from the USA America , and Asia, with Australia and Africa
being generally under-represented (also see the Editorial in JLLT 3 (2012)
1, p. 7). It can easily been seen, however, that JLLT is read in large
parts of the northern hemisphere.
The figures presented here also stand for
another point which is of vital importance: the gratefulness we owe to our
authors and readers. As the editor, I hope that each publication marks the
beginning of a long-lasting relationship between the two groups that are
semi-permeable: readers can become authors, and authors are always readers. And
there is another relationship which is of equal importance and which is very
close: the relationship between the Editor / Editorial Board and the authors,
who are represented in and by JLLT. We will continue our work, hoping
that the development described here will continue in the future.
Thomas
Tinnefeld
JLLT
Editor