Annual Report INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY January - November 2016 Editorial Team: Editors in Chief: Jef Huysmans (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) João Pontes Nogueira (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Associate Editors: Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University, Turkey) Roxanne Doty (Arizona State University, USA) Anna Leander (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Nicholas Onuf (Florida International University, USA) Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University, Hungary) Mark B. Salter (University of Ottawa, Canada) Karen Smith (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Laurent Bonelli (Université Paris X, France) Assistant Editor: Renata Summa (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Language Editor: Liz Vidler (Open University, UK) 1 Table of Content INTRODUCTION. ............................................................................................................................. 3 TRANSITION TO OUP..….………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………4 FROM FORUM TO COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION PIECES………… …………… …………………………………..…….……...4 CONTENT MANAGEMENT - OUP 2016………………………………………..……………………………………………….5 - Publication Year by Year (calendar days) and publication details ........................................... 6 - Citation Ranking and Impact Factor ........................................................................................ 6 - Downloads and Website Traffic ............................................................................................... 7 EDITORIAL PROCESS - 2016 IN FIGURES ........................................................................................... 10 MARKETING CAMPAIGNS ............................................................................................................... 18 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................. 21 APPENDIX ................................................................................................................................... 26 Appendix 1: IPS 2016 Issues..................................................................................................... 26 Appendix 2: IPS Editorial Board ............................................................................................... 29 2 Welcome to the IPS 2016 annual report, which includes information about our activities, including editorial developments, management information, marketing and sales information, and publication statistics. INTRODUCTION This is the fifth and thus the last Annual Report submitted to the Editorial Board of IPS by the team that took over the management of the journal in 2012. During this period IPS has experienced significant growth in submissions and readership. It is now ranked 10 out of 86 journals in International Relations, 20th out of 163 in Political Science and 18 out of 142 in Sociology. The distribution of the readership has remained concentrated in North America and Europe. Global reach has evolved slowly. Submissions in languages other than English are stable in a lower number than desired. Submissions from authors outside the dominant Anglo-American axis and Northern Europe are at 25%. We believe this is an indication that if we are successful in raising the number of submissions from the “rest” of the world, we will find quality material to publish in IPS. We are pleased to note that the number of published articles by women and by female and male co-authors has increased to 50%. Our acceptance rate is at 13%, which is within range of the journal’s normal average. The journal experienced a significant rise in impact factor in 2016 rectifying the artificially low drop of last year which resulted from a mistake by ISI in the count of non-editorial materials. We successfully transformed the forum into collective discussion pieces to avoid a repeat of last year’s mistake in the impact factor calculation. The editorial team has also adopted Advanced Access in 2016 as an effort to extend the citation window of articles. Finally, to signal the journal’s contributions to debates on migration, refuge and asylum we organized a Virtual Issue ‘International Political Sociologies of Migration’ collecting a range of published articles on migration. This year IPS also celebrated 10 years of existence. At the ISA Convention the editorial team organized a round table looking back at 10 years of the journal and looking forward at how the diversity of theoretical approaches and methods is reconciled in the collective intellectual effort represented by IPS and how to keep this discussion open in the pages of the journal. The team also organized a 10th Anniversary issue on the future of IPS published in December 2016. In January 2017 a new editorial team led by Debbie Lisle will take over and charter the journal towards its 15th anniversary. We believe the new editorial team is very well placed to bring both continuity and novelty to the journal and thus sustain the intellectual vitality of international political sociology in IR. The current team worked closely with Debbie Lisle since July 2016 so as to guarantee a smooth and productive handover. We wish them all the best for their editorial tenure. Since this is the current editorial team’s last annual report, we want to thank everyone who has supported us in making the editorial process work. In particular we would like to thank Didier Bigo and Rob Walker for 3 their advice and support at the start of our tenure and Tom Volgy, Mark Boyer and Brian Pollins for their continuous support of the journal. We also owe a massive thank you to Colombe Camus, Miriam Périer, Leticia Carvalho and Renata Summa who were our assistant editors, to Liz Vidler who was our language and copy-editor, to the communications team who provided invaluable support in both translating calls for papers and providing a range of specialist knowledges we could draw on when in need of widening our reviewers database, and to our associate editors who helped out in various ways, including contributing to actioning the strategic mission. Mark Salter deserves special mention as editor of a successful series of forums and Anna Leander and Prem Kumar Rajaram for exploring the use of interviews to support the global mission. We take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank the Open University (UK); Queen Mary University of London and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro for their institutional and material support to the editorial operation of the journal during the five years of our tenure. And last but not least, we also want to thank the Editorial Board for their support and the always constructive feedback on our ideas for further improving the journal. NEW EDITORIAL TEAM During the 2016 Annual Convention in Atlanta ISA’s Governing Council chose – upon recommendation from the Publications Committee – the winning bid for a new editorial team for IPS. This was the first time we had a competitive process, with two bids presented by outstanding scholars from the IPS community. As is common knowledge, the team led by Debbie Lisle, with Roxanne Doty and Vicky Squire as co-editors was awarded the editorship of IPS for the next five years. We are confident the new team will bring fresh and innovative ideas to the journal and we would like to offer our warmest congratulations and enthusiastic support for what promises to be a very successful tenure. TRANSITION TO OUP Along with all other ISA journals, IPS is now published by Oxford University Press since January 2016. The journal has a new cover and its home page has a new layout. The transition is now concluded and we wish the new team a productive relationship with OUP. FROM FORUMS TO COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION PIECES Although the forums continued to be successful through Vol. 8/9, we had to change its format due to ISI classifying individual forum contributions as full articles which had a detrimental effect on the impact factor (see last year’s annual report). We replaced them with Collective Discussions, the first of which was published in the first issue of 2016 (10:1) 4 Similar to the Forum, the Collective Discussion pieces consist of interventions from several contributors on new topics, issues, thinkers or theories, which serve our wider community of readers and promotes International Political Sociology as an excellent venue for the publication of new innovative interdisciplinary work. The Collective Discussion has allowed authors to experiment with the format. The first collective discussions remain close to the forum format, integrating short contributions of several authors into a single article. Yet, the collective format has visibly stimulated authors to work more intensely on integrating their contributions and even experimenting a little with the format, as in the forthcoming Collective Discussion on Fracturing Politics. Volume 10 Collective Discussions 10(1) Ferocious architecture: Sovereign Spaces/Places by Design, by Benjamin Muller, Thomas N. Cooke, Miguel de Larrinaga, Philippe M. Frowd, Deljana Iossifova, Daniela Johannes, Can E. Mutlu, Adam Nowek 10(3) Big Data: Issues for an International Political Sociology of Data Practices, by Anders Koed Madsen, Mikkel Flyverbom, Martin Hilbert, Evelyn Ruppert Volume 11 Forthcoming Collective Discussion 11(1) Fracturing Politics (or, How to Avoid the Tacit Reproduction of Modern/Colonial Ontologies of Critical Thought), by Leonie Ansems de Vries, Lara Coleman, Doerthe Rosenow, Martina Tazzioli, and Rolando