Annual Report INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY January

Annual Report INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY January - November 2013 Editorial Team: Editors in Chief: Jef Huysmans (Open University, 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) Jon Solomon (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan) Assistant Editor: Renata Summa (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Table of Content INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 3 A New Website………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 ScholarOne…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 Global Reach - Call for Papers……………………………………………………………………………………….……….4 Second Virtual Issue………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………….5 Forum……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 Interview……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6 Content Management - Wiley-Blackwell 2012……………………………………………………………………….6 PUBLICATION YEAR BY YEAR (CALENDAR DAYS) ................................................................................... 6 CITATION RANKING AND IMPACT FACTOR .......................................................................................... 7 DOWNLOADS AND WEBSITE TRAFFIC 2012 ........................................................................................ 8 MARKETING CAMPAIGNS .............................................................................................................. 11 Editorial Process – 2013 in Figures .......................................................................................... 13 TABLE 1. GENERAL FIGURES .......................................................................................................... 13 TABLE 2. SUBMISSION TO DECISION TIME IN CALENDAR DAYS 2013 .................................................... 13 TABLE 3. DISTRIBUTION BY SEX (2013) ........................................................................................... 14 TABLE 4. ACADEMIC TITLES (2013) ................................................................................................ 14 TABLE 5. AFFILIATIONS OF IPS CONTRIBUTORS (2013) ...................................................................... 15 Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................. 17 APPENDIX ................................................................................................................................. 18 Appendix 1: IPS 2013 Issues ...................................................................................................... 18 Appendix 2: IPS Editorial Board ................................................................................................. 22 Appendix 3: IPS Second Virtual Special Issue……………………………………………………………………….25 2 Welcome to the IPS annual report 2013, which includes information about our editorial activities, including editorial developments, management information, marketing and sales information, and publication statistics. INTRODUCTION The main goals of the IPS editorial team in place since January 2012 have been to consolidate the identity of the journal— its theoretical and methodological pluralism—and to enhance its global reach. In the past few years IPS has responded to the diversification of scholarly concerns in contemporary international studies. It has brought a wide range of traditions from historical, legal, economic, cultural and political sociology to bear on some of the key questions defining world politics today. Its primary intellectual signature has been the creation of a stimulating and already influential meeting ground between contemporary work in sociology/socio-political theory and international studies. It has been able to stimulate theoretical, conceptual and methodological resources bringing fresh insights to major challenges in global politics. The journal has also responded to the globalization of international studies. It continues to be especially successful in engaging the distinctive theoretical traditions that have emerged in Europe and in strengthening the relation between intellectual communities in Europe and North America. It also continues to work explicitly on delivering on its ambition to encourage submissions from beyond these two regions. The journal has created, for example, the possibility of submitting articles in languages other than English, with reviews in the language of submission and translation into English after acceptance for publication. In 2012 we produced calls for papers in 10 different languages that were circulated among diverse academic communities, with the help of our team of Associate Editors as well as of our Communications Team. In 2013 we published our first interviews with researchers and public intellectuals from regions outside of Europe and North America. These interviews have become an important tool for increasing the global scope of the journal. The journal has sustained the increased number of submissions of 2012. IPS also continues to receive a significant number of manuscripts from areas of the world beyond North America and northwest Europe. The quality of such submissions is still uneven but the trend is a clear response to the initiatives to extend our reach. We expect this effort to gradually produce better quality as well as an increase in numbers of submissions from outside Europe and North-America. Our second virtual Issue, “Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies”, was published this year. The virtual issue is an occasional publication that gathers articles already published by the journal around a specific theme. The aim is to shed a new light on quality pieces that might appeal to a broader range of readers. The improvement of the administration of IPS’ editorial process is one of the priorities of the current editorial team. We aim at the reduction of turn-over time, faster distribution of manuscripts to referees, improvement of our response time to authors, among other aspects of the production of the journal. As a step in this direction, the Editors have moved the management of the editorial process to the Scholar One system. Finally, we would like to thank Miriam Perrier for her excellent work as assistant editor in the past year and welcome Renata Summa, who took over as our new assistant editor in July 2013. A NEW WEBSITE IPS’ new website is up and running since the end of last year. The site will be used as resource to improve our communication with readers and the academic community worldwide. It gives the editors the ability to implement specific dissemination strategies, interact with readers and potential authors, highlight initiatives and events of interst for the journal and, more generally, enhance the visibility of IPS. The site will serve as a complementary source of information to Wiley’s corporate site. As mentioned before, the site will be multilingual. 3 Figure 1 – The home of IPS new website SCHOLAR ONE IPS has been operating with Scholar One Manuscripts since January 2013. The editorial team worked intensively with Wiley to customize the system according to the journal’s style of management and specific requirements. The result is highly positive. The system allows for a better overview of the editorial process as a whole, for the integrated management of our referee database as well as for the production of data about the different dimensions of the journal’s operation and content. We are also convinced that the adoption of the system has contributed to a more efficient management of the workflow. Finally, the integration of the editorial process in a single system made the transition between assistant editors much easier. GLOBAL REACH -CALL FOR PAPERS One of the main features of the journal has been the creation of a space open to academics from all regions of the world, to their languages, their approaches. One of the characteristics differentiating International Political Sociology from other academic journals has therefore been to welcome submissions in languages other than English. In 2013 as a new strategy to expand our reach we translated the Call for Papers to several languages and asked our associate editors to engage efforts to disseminate the Call in their countries and regions. The strategy has been partially successful in its initial stages, with an increase in submissions from the Middle East and not significant movement from other regions. We are aware that this is a long term process and that we need constantly renew our efforts to enhance our global reach. A new Call for Papers was drafted and is being translated and we will use the new website in our 2014 dissemination campaign. 4 SECOND VIRTUAL ISSUE IPS published its second virtual issue in 2013. Virtual issues collect already published articles on a theme of special significance for IPS. They are published on the Wiley Blackwell IPS website and are an advertising tool. Their content is freely accessible to anyone interested. In 2012 we used the virtual issue to highlight the IPS interest in theoretical work that traverses the social and the political, sociology and international

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