State of the journal

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This journal was started in 2012 because the emerging field of multimedia retrieval was growing quickly but did not have an archival journal. Around the same time, a new peer-reviewed conference, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), had just started. Thus, it seemed to be the right time to start the first journal in the field of multimedia retrieval. Furthermore, it was well known that the computer science journals in related fields such as pattern recognition and computer vision and others often required 6 + months to the first decision. Considering that the general science journals such as Nature and Science had first decision times of a month (or less), we knew that it was possible to perform the peer review well and more quickly, but it had not been implemented in any related journal from ACM, IEEE, Springer or Elsevier that we were aware of. These factors motivated our major starting goals: create a high quality archival journal for the field of multimedia retrieval and aim for an average time to the first decision of roughly 1 month. …