One fortunate problem of all journals is the high volume of good quality manuscripts received by the office. This also happened to JBPE. Since 2015, we adopted the advanced online publication policy as the first journal in West Asia. The number of papers pending publication exceeded 100 in 2017. We therefore, along with increasing the rejection ratio, increased the number of original papers per issue to 20 to decrease this backlog. Recently, the editorial board has decided to change the frequency ...