Editorial 2021 (original) (raw)
When writing our last year's editorial during the early days of January 2020, little did we know that our lives were about to drastically change. COVID-19 has affected the way we use technology as well as the way we lead our personal, social and working lives. As to the production process of the journal, COVID 19 clearly was a game changer. During the first lockdown in spring 2020, considerably less submissions reached us. During summer and autumn, submissions increased, reaching 87 articles by the end of the year, more concretely 81 regular articles, five research in brief articles and one debate article (compared to 85 submissions in 2019, and 65 in 2018). In 2020, authors had to write while teaching online and coping with a changed work-life balance, faced with field research that had to be rearranged or suspended, conferences that were canceled or transferred to a virtual edition, home schooling and child care and worries concerning relatives and friends. Especially for young researchers this was often combined with the structural problem of short-term contracts. In 2020, we faced disruption and often we lacked the serenity to reflect, analyse and write. Under these difficult circumstances, we are grateful to our authors for their high-level contributions and for remaining committed to our journal. This gives us the optimism that 2021 will be a better and again a fruitful year. Our journal seeks to improve its position as a forum for high quality research,
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