IJAHP Editorial:  Mu, E. / Words from the Editor-in-Chief 
 

 

International Journal of the 
Analytic Hierarchy Process 

88 Vol. 4 Issue 2 2012 
ISSN 1936-6744 

   
 

 

December 2012 

Dear IJAHP Readers: 

The first four articles in this issue focus on manufacturing. It 
was not our intention to have a special issue on this topic 
but interestingly enough, there were so many articles in this 
area that we decided to put them together in this issue. 
However, there is one important article, Compatibility 

Indices between Priority Vectors, by Garuti and Salomon, discussing a theoretical topic of 
great practical importance: How to know how close two prioritizations (e.g. by two 
different decision makers) are? Given the importance of this question we decided to 
include it in this issue so this discussion could be made available to the AHP community 
as soon as possible. Also, this issue includes an essay about how to get articles published 
in our journal and offers some valuable tips to would-be authors. This essay discusses 
the general criteria used by the editorial board to decide whether an article should be 
submitted to full review (double blind), be modified and resubmitted, or simply is not 
suitable to enter the IJAHP review and publication process. 

With this issue we close our fourth year of peer-reviewed regular publication. We 
believe we are ready to start our round of applications to get the journal properly 
indexed. As of this date we have applied to DOJ and SCOPUS but we are exploring all the 
different well-known indexing organizations available to us. This is our homework for 
this coming year 2013. Also, beginning with this issue we have started publishing with 
an attractive cover designed by Antonella Petrillo who joined our editorial board for the 
special issue this year, Vol. 4, Issue 1, "AHP/ANP Multicriteria Decision Making on 
Sustainable Development",  and who is staying on now on a permanent basis as our 
assistant managing editor. Welcome, Antonella! And to our readers, reviewers, and 
authors, a big thanks! Without your participation this flagship journal for our AHP/ANP 
community would not be possible.  

Happy Holidays! 

Sincerely, 

Enrique Mu, PhD 

IJAHP, Editor-in-Chief 

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	With this issue we close our fourth year of peer-reviewed regular publication. We believe we are ready to start our round of applications to get the journal properly indexed. As of this date we have applied to DOJ and SCOPUS but we are exploring all t...