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Report of the Editors of the American Political Science Review, 2007–2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2009

Extract

This report was the first to be prepared by the UCLA-based team of co-editors that took over leadership of the Review in July 2007 from Lee Sigelman, who had edited it for the previous six years. Here we report on the journal's operations during the year from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, including both decisions made during the early months by Lee, as he closed up shop, and those made by the new team. Because revisions often take authors many months to complete, the time span between original submission and final acceptance of an article can be long. As a result, the issues of the journal published between mid-2007 and mid-2008 owe at least as much to Lee as they do to us—indeed, of the articles accepted during those 12 months, 83% either had been accepted by Lee or came to us as revised versions of papers he had initially handled, almost all of which we accepted. So our first task is to acknowledge the extremely important contribution Lee made to the publication in this transitional year, even as he was beginning a well-deserved rest. We are grateful to Lee for all his help, and our respect for his management skills only increases with time.

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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2009

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NOTES

1 Submission statistics for the year 2006\N07 were generated for Tables 1 and 3 at UCLA some months after editorial offices were closed at George Washington University and using the APSR's transferred database. They cover only 10.5 months, due to a change in annual reporting periods (now July 1 through June 30). Annualized submission statistics for that same year would equal 707 and 621 for “total” and “new,” respectively. Thanks go to UCLA political science graduate student Rebekah Sterling for the additional database research and compilations.

2 The annual report for 2008–09 is expected to reflect a sharp, corresponding increase in the percentage of non-quantitative manuscripts accepted in the six months after this first-year report was originally prepared, bringing the mix for the full year—so far, closer to that of recent past years.