After all, women are still more likely than men – even among high-level professionals – to shoulder the majority of the household labor and childcare or elder care responsibilities. It’s impossible to know whether to attribute the uptick to MPSA conference papers that were no longer awaiting feedback, more time at home for authors, different teaching commitments, etc. This listing of 118 journals in political science identifies the journals' field(s) of specialization, requirements for submitting manuscripts, procedures for reviewing manuscripts, and rates of manuscript submission and acceptance. A COVID-19 Caveat As long as it’s the case that women are less likely than men to submit manuscripts to AJPS, the gender disparities in publication rates will remain. Decisions New content alerts RSS. Int. [1] Dion, Michelle L. and Sara M. Mitchell. Women constitute just one-quarter of submitting authors, and their names appear on only one-third of submitted manuscripts. Journal of Chinese Political Science (JCPS) has been recently accepted into SSCI, Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuter) Social Sciences Citation Index. Because they think that in order to be qualified to run for office, they need to be twice as good to get half as far. The 108 manuscripts we processed in this month-long period included 54 female and 108 male authors. When we became editors of the American Journal of Political Science on June 1, 2019, we stated that one of our goals was to understand the patterns of submission and publication by authors from underrepresented groups. The journal also features special issues, review essays, and research papers on different aspects of contemporary China, which explore a new development or cutting edge research agenda in the discipline or sub-fields or illuminate a larger and important conceptual, theoretical or methodological concern. We focus on manuscripts submitted to the journal between January 1, 2017 and October 31, 2019. However, JCPS also welcomes manuscripts on different aspects of … During the period under examination, 4,916 authors submitted manuscripts and received final decisions from AJPS. It is recognized as one of the leading academic journals managed by students and junior scholars from across the fields of political science and international relations. 2017. Global Journal of Political Science and Administration is a peer-reviewed journal published by the European Centre for Research, Training and Development (ECRTD), UK. Notes: Bars represent the percentage of accepted manuscripts that fall into each category. Language: English; ISSN: 1996-0832; DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR The journal also publishes symposia, academic debates and original datasets. Figure 2. Established in 1939 and published for the Southern Political Science Association, The Journal of Politics is a leading general-interest journal of political science and the oldest regional political science journal in the United States. Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science (ISSN [online] 2414-6633) is the flagship publication of the International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS). Open Journal of Political Science (OJPS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of political science. Papers are theory-grounded and based on solid empirical work. Description: The Indian Journal of Political Science is one of the most reputed refereed journals of Political Science at international level and the foremost journal of the discipline in India. J. Pol. Of the 2,672 manuscripts on which an editor issued a final decision, 945 (or 35%) had at least one female author. Why? In association with the British Academy and the Cambridge University Press, the journal awards the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science. Read recently published open access articles in the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Quick Reference for Uploading Verification Files. In terms of “supply,” there is a large disparity. The analysis is based on the 2,672 manuscript for which we issued a final decision (accept or decline) from January 2017 – October 2019. Women submitted only 8 of the 46 solo-authored papers during this time. Yet women remain significantly under-represented in U.S. political institutions. Julia Salvatore Figure 1. Learn about publishing Open Access with us, Non-institutional Factors in Shaping Rural Elections and Governance in China: a Pragmatist Perspective, A History of American Studies of Chinese Elite Politics, Many Nationalisms, One Disaster: Categories, Attitudes and Evolution of Chinese Nationalism on Social Media during the COVID -19 Pandemic, Call for Papers: Nationalism and Its Impact on World Politics During COVID-19. The journal publishes a diverse range of political science articles, especially from fields currently under-covered, such as comparative politics, public policy, political economy, or political psychology, covering Romanian or broader Central or South - East European issues. The American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) is the flagship journal of the Midwest Political Science Association and is published by Wiley. We begin that examination by presenting data on submission and publication rates of women and men. None of the differences across categories in Figure 2 is statistically significant. ajps@ajps.org, ISI Journal Citation Reports Ranking: 2019:1/166 (Political Science), Online ISSN: 1540-5907 The Journal of Political Science, a bi-annual research journal has been published by the Post-Graduate Department of Political Science, DAV College, Jalandhar since 2005.Earlier it was known as Journal of Political Studies, established in 1968. About this journal. September 2010, issue 3; June 2010, issue 2 Those submissions included a total of 307 authors, 75 of whom were women. We’ve known for decades now that when women run for office, they do as well as men. - 51.255.203.190. But we also know that when women are encouraged to run for office, they’re more likely to think they’re qualified and they’re more likely to give it a shot. ABOUT THE JOURNAL Frequency: 4 issues/year ISSN: 0022-3816 E-ISSN: 1468-2508 2019 JCR Impact Factor*: 2.658 Ranked #29 out of 180 in Political Science. AIMS AND SCOPE Journal of Chinese Political Science (JCPS) is a refereed academic journal that publishes theoretical, policy, and empirical research articles on Chinese politics across the whole spectrum of political science, with emphasis on Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy in comparative perspectives. Political Science is no longer published by SAGE, though backfiles remain available here (March 1948 - December 2016). Thus, women comprised 24% of accepted authors – this is statistically indistinguishable from the 25% of female submitting authors. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new AJPS Author Summaries and posts from the editors. So, women comprised 33% of submitting authors, which is actually somewhat higher than usual (remember that women comprised 25% of the authors in the 2017 – 2019 data set). Journal Political Science Submit an article Journal homepage. Submit an article. It’s our responsibility to let them know that their work is just as competent and just as important as that of their male colleagues. Managing Editor The lion’s share of the manuscripts that included a female author, however, also included at least one male co-author (see Figure 1). Or click here to select another journal that is more appropriate for your research field. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of political science. But while the discipline continues to address these resource gaps, we can change the face of tables of contents by calling attention to the myths about women not succeeding when they submit their work. We take a different approach. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time. [1] They compare the gender composition of membership in several APSA organized sections with the gender balance in citations published by each section’s official journal. But we examined the 108 submitted manuscripts we received from March 15th through April 19th to assess whether the patterns from the larger data set have been exacerbated amid COVID-19. Notes: Bars represent the percentage of manuscripts that fall into each category. New content alerts RSS. [3] These results are consistent with a 2018 symposium on gender in the American Political Science Association’s journals. In examining the gendered patterns in submission and publication at AJPS over the past three years, we see two different realities. When we became editors of the American Journal of Political Science on June 1, 2019, we stated that one of our goals was to understand the patterns of submission and publication by authors from underrepresented groups. Search in: Advanced search. Special Issue Title: * Email Address: * The journal publishes original research papers at the forefront of political science. It Takes a Submission: Gendered Patterns in the Pages of AJPS. As the years passed, the Journal of Political Studies, as it was titled then, grew in circulations as well as in stature. Awards. Negativity Bias: The Impact of Framing of Immigration on Welfare State Support in Germany, Sweden and the UK Special Issue: Legitimacy and Governance. They win at equal rates, raise as much money, and even garner similar media coverage. SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE STATE OF THE FIELD (III): Political Science and Chinese Political Studies/Guest Edited by Sujian Guo. So these figures suggest that manuscript processing might take a bit longer from start to finish for this “Covid-19 cohort.” As a result, we call on authors to exercise patience and gratitude for the colleagues doing this work. Prize for one issue of Czech Journal of Political Science is 150 CZK, one year subscription costs 300 CZK. Women’s ratios on the printed pages are indistinguishable from their ratios in the submission pool. Citation search. Because we have AJPS submission data, we can examine the link between gender gaps in submission rates and subsequent publication rates. We view these data as contributing to recent conversations about the representation of women as authors and as cited authorities in political science journals. Emphasizes Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy in comparative perspectives. Journal of Chinese Political Science (JCPS) has been recently accepted into SSCI, Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuter) Social Sciences Citation Index. AJPS is a general journal of political science open to all members of the profession and to all areas of the discipline of political science. Michelle Dion and Sarah Mitchell, for example, recently published a piece in PS about the citation gap in political science articles. Sci. Homing in on the 1,238 solo-authored manuscripts, 962 came from men. After all, women and men can be under- or over-represented in the pool of published articles only in proportion to their presence in the pool of submitted manuscripts. That’s 38% of the total, which is again a slightly greater share than the 35% of manuscripts with at least one female author in the larger data set. Special issue: The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Order and World Politics. Manuscript Acceptance Rates at AJPS, by Composition of Authors This thematic-based symposium engages in the reflective and critical discourse on the most important and timing issue of the US-China confrontation escalated in the recent years, particularly the fight over coronavirus response between two sides amid COVID-19 global pandemic. Please do let us know if you need additional time. The data reveal that it hasn’t. This is the very reason why we start a new online journal, Meiji Journal of Political Science and Economics (MJPSE), covering a wide range of disciplines from political science, economics, sociology, history, and to cultural studies when we already have so many online journal available. This doesn’t mean that Covid-19 hasn’t taken a toll on female authors, though. Their share of 17% is down from 22% in the larger data set. Although our editorial team was in place for only the last five months of this period, we wanted to examine a long enough time span to get a good sense of any gendered patterns that exist in the pages of AJPS. Regardless of how many women or men author a piece, only about 6% are accepted for publication. Even if women’s overall submission rates are up, they seem to have less time to submit their own work than men do amid the crisis. The American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), published four times each year, is one of the most widely-read political science journals in the United States. Coverage in the journal emphasizes Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy in comparative perspectives. See “Gender in the Journals, Continued: Evidence from Five Political Science Journals.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51(4). JCPS Editor's Special Symposium: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap? It wouldn’t be surprising if the gender gap in manuscript submissions grew during this time. Dawn Teele and Kathleen Thelen document a lower percentage of female authors in 10 political science journals than women’s share of the overall profession.[2]. While AJPS reviewers have terrific turnaround time, we realize that people may be delayed in returning reviews this semester. We are not so naïve as to believe that encouragement is all it takes to close the gender gap in rates of submission. The Australian Journal of Political Science publishes research on all major subdisciplines of political studies with an international outlook and readership. [2] Teele, Dawn Langan and Kathleen Thelen. Given these findings, and the work we do, we would be remiss not to draw a comparison to the political arena. Relat. That women are still not similarly situated with men in important resources (tenure track jobs, research support, family obligations) poses obstacles that encouragement alone cannot surmount. Trade and Political Fragmentation on the Silk Roads: The Economic Effects of Historical Exchange between China and the Muslim East Lisa Blaydes Christopher Paik Citation search. “How Many Citations to Women Is ‘Enough?’ Estimates of Gender Representation in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 53(1):107-13. The Journal of Political Science Education is an intellectually rigorous, peer-reviewed quarterly journal that publishes evidence-based and theoretically informed scholarship on teaching and pedagogical issues in political science. International Scientific Journal & Country Ranking. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 4.292, ranking it 4th out of 176 journals in the category "Political Science".