Editor’s Report for the Journal of Political Science Education

In our second year working on the journal the process has gone well and we have a good team of managing editors and editorial assistants at the University at Albany and at Roger Williams University. 2nd Year Highlights Now ending the second year of our running of the journal as an APSA wide journal we have seen submissions go up and authors and readers becoming accustomed to the new sections of the journal we established when we started running the journal (in addition to the existing sections of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and continuing reviews of Books, Teaching Tools, & Educational Resources) along with significant and growing interest in the new sections we established both in terms of submissions and positive feedback from comments by readers. Table 1 Authors by Gender Female Male Total 34 (47%) 39 (53%) 73 Parentheses–Percentage of Total including coauthors, all original submissions Table 2 Authors by Rank Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Lecturer Student Administration/Professional Other Total 15 (21%) 9 (12%) 19 (26%) 11 (15%) 12 (16%) 7 (10%) 0 (0%) 73 Parentheses–Percentage of Total including coauthors, all original submissions Table 3 Authors by Country of Submission Australia Canada Denmark Israel Korea Sweden UK US Total 1 (1.2%) 2 (2.4%) 1 (1.2%) 1 (1.2%) 1 (1.2%) 1 (1.2%) 4 (4.7%) 73 (86.9%) 84 (100%) Parentheses–Percentage of Total including coauthors, all original submissions Table 4 Authors by Type of Institution College Nonacademic Private University Public University Total July–Sept 2017 1 (6%) 0 (0%) 8 (47%) 8 (47%) 17 Oct–Dec 2017 2 (11%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 16 (89%) 18 Jan–March 2018 5 (24%) 0 (0%) 3 (14%) 13 (62%) 21 April–June 2018 2 (12%) 0 (0%) 4 (23%) 11 (65%) 17 Total Percentage 10 (14%) 0 (0%) 15 (20%) 48 (66%) 73 (100%) Parentheses–Percentage of Total including coauthors, all original submissions Content and Treatment of Manuscripts Table 5 shows the percentage of articles submitted that were directed at being submitted as original articles (both SoTL and Political Science Instruction sections), review articles, and reflection articles. Table 5 Types of Submission Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Political Science Instruction Books, Teaching Tools, and Educational Resources Reflections Total 33 (33.3) 38 (38.4%) 15 (15.2%) 13 (13.1%) 99 Parentheses–Percentage of Total, all original submissions Table 6 Manuscript Decision (Original Submissions) Accepted Revise and Resubmit Reject* Total 15 (15%)