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I am happy to report that Perspectives on Politics continues to thrive. In the almost six years since we assumed editorial control of the journal in June 2009, we have succeeded in strengthening journal operations and procedures and in projecting a new and growing excitement about Perspectives and the role it can play in contributing to the invigoration of the discipline.
We have a highly talented, energetic, and well-organized staff, and we continue to fine-tune a strong set of procedures for dealing with authors, reviewers, and each other. As a consequence, we have continued to work efficiently and stay on production schedule with APSA, Cambridge, and the compositors. I continue to receive a great deal of positive feedback from authors and from readers about the journal, its quality, its special sections, and its accessibility and responsiveness. More importantly, we continue to receive a growing flow of manuscripts of an increasingly high quality from "major" scholars eager to place their work in our journal and from more junior scholars who regard Perspectives and its mission as hospitable to their view of political science. In the past year we have received a record number of article submissions, and have published a wide range of authors from a variety of institutions. According to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports® by Thomson Reuters, the journal has an Impact Factor of 3.035 and ranks second among 156 journals categorized as political science.
In 2014, Perspectives published 20 articles and reflections (with 33 authors and coauthors combined), two reflections symposia (including responses by nine interlocutors), eight review essays, six book review symposia (with 21 contributors), five critical dialogues, and 229 book reviews (treating 266 titles by a collective 360 authors)--plus one presidential address, and one Praxis essay (a newly introduced format). We thus published the work of more than 300 political scientists. If you add to that the number of manuscript reviewers with which we have corresponded, in 2013 the journal networked with more than 1,000 political scientists. Through our extensive and substantive correspondence, and through the product of that correspondence--the journal itself--we believe we are succeeding in our goal of fostering a political science public sphere.
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