PS: What You Are Reading (online)
Our publisher's report for PS: Political Science & Politics for 2011 gives us some insight into what you, our readers, are reading here in the pages of PS. In total, more than 101,000 readers completed full-text downloads of online articles in 2011, up nearly 30% from 2010 and 26% compared to 2009 figures. This figure only represents electronic downloads; we know that print is very important too and we hope to report on that readership in the future.
Overall, PS still ranks very well against our publishers' other political science and international relations titles.
Among the organizations and institutions that downloaded the most PS articles over the last year were
University of California, Riverside Libraries; Georgia State University; University of California, San Diego Libraries; University of Oxford; Balfour Library (Pitt Rivers Museum)
Most Down-loaded articles IN 2011
The five most-downloaded articles, published in any year, for PS in 2011 were:
Diascro, Jennifer Segal. 2011. “The Job Market and Placement in Political Science in 2009-10.” PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (3).
Giles, Michael W., and James C. Garand. 2007. “Ranking Political Science Journals: Reputational and Citational Approaches.” PS: Political Science and Politics 40 (4).
Jacobs, Lawrence R. 2010. “What Health Reform Teaches Us about American Politics.” PS: Political Science and Politics 43 (4).
Leech, Beth L. 2002.“Asking Questions: Techniques for Semistructured Interviews.” PS: Political Science and Politics 35 (4).
Knopf, Jeffrey W. 2006. “Doing a Literature Review.” PS: Political Science and Politics 39 (1).
The five most downloaded articles for volume 44 (2011 volume)
From our volume year recently completed in 2011, the five most downloaded articles for volume 44 are as follows:
Diasco, Jennifer Segal. 2011. “The Job Market and Placement in Political Science in 2009-10.” PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (3).
Monroe, Kristen Renwick. 2011. “Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice.” PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (3).
Karpowitz, Christopher F., J. Quin Monson, Kelly D. Patterson, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2011. Tea Time in America? The Impact of the Tea Party Movement on the 2010 Midterm Elections. PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (2).
Sides, John. 2011. The Political Scientist as a Blogger. PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (2).
Perliger, Arie, and Ami Pedahzur. 2011. Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (1).
We look forward to learning more about what you are reading in 2012.
Submissions and Decisions
Unsolicited submissions to PS (in the Features, The Profession, and The Teacher categories) have increased over the past several years (table 1). Acceptance rates over the past several years remain fairly constant. Recently, PS eliminated its decision or action of “major revision” with decisions only as “accept,” “ revise and resubmit,” and “reject.”
Table 1 Submissions per Year 2009-11
Table 2 Outcome of the Review Process 2009-11(%)
In 2011, PS witnessed an increase in submissions in the teaching category, increasing from around 29% to 39% (table 3). PS continues to include symposia in nearly every issue. As seen in table 4, published symposia average about seven per year (averaging 50 additional “articles.”)
Table 3 Distribution of Papers Submitted, 2009–2011(%)
excludes symposia
Table 4 Symposia Published, 2009–2011
Plans for a readership survey and other evaluation of the submission process are scheduled for 2012.
