Orlando M Lourenço -You have communicated two papers and that is a great job you have done in 2018.I feel you have done very well. No reason for disappointment.
Close enough, I’d say. I did produce as much as I had planned, though not all of my accepted papers were published in 2018 as I expected; some of them got delayed due to journals’ backlog, which is understandable.
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