Adding indexing and abstracting brings us to the bottom level of data storage base and retrieval. Adding compilation and reporting moves the process up to the middle level of the pyramid, information processing. The higher up you go, the more experience you need to do the job. The user and the analyst must respect each other and work together. The analyst must be able to see things through the user's eyes.
Creativity arises from interactions among different points of view.
Partly to that end, the journal has gone from six issues a year to 10 to 12, and will publish 14 issues in 1998. Kraft hopes to reduce the year-long print queue. Peer-reviewing a journal takes time, however. Reviewers will accept only so many articles, and some are very slow about returning articles they're evaluating. The bottom line, Kraft said, is that there are a lot of judgment calls to be made on the quality of a paper.