The First Year of Political Philosophy (the Journal)
In the beginning of 2024, a new journal, Political Philosophy, started accepting submissions. How is it doing?
This is of interest because of how Political Philosophy got its start. Briefly, in 2023 the publishing firm Wiley threatened to fire Robert Goodin from his position as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Political Philosophy unless he agreed to publish more articles in it to make it more profitable, a move which spectacularly backfired, resulting in the dissolution of the Journal of Political Philosophy and the creation of a new, open-access journal run by the same editorial team: Political Philosophy. The story is recounted here.
Professor Goodin has written to share what the journal’s done during its first year. He says:
You can check out the articles it has published here.
What does such low acceptance ratio show, that they are extremely rigorous in the review proccess or that people submit sub par research. It would be interesting to see what percentage was rejected due to not being thematically suitable.
If you think this is a low acceptance rate, wait until you get a look at some other philosophy journals!
Would the editor be willing to release any historical data, i.e., how the number of submissions, the acceptance rate, and the review time compares with the last few years of the Journal of Political Philosophy?
I wonder if “99% of decisions were within 3 months of submission” is going to be a bit misleading until the journal has been running for a bit longer. Presumably anyone who’s decisions will take a year or longer won’t be able to count towards the stats for a while yet!
While it’s great that the journal seems to be a success, it is certainly a shame that they continue to have a literal Falangist on the editorial board.