Vital Statistics; Book Review EditorS

Vital Statistics

It is an annual custom for us to publish in the first issue of the year the statistics on manuscript submission, acceptance and publication from the previous year. Not only is it of interest to us as Editors and you as readers to note any shifts in submission and publication trends, but it is also important to us that we maintain a good degree of transparency in relation to our authors and readers.

In 2022, we were (happy) ‘prisoners’ of our mailbox – the pool of articles submitted to EJIL – even more than in many previous years as we published very few commissioned articles (just on 5 per cent of the total number of articles published). This means that the statistics for our 2022 volume speak almost entirely of the contents of our ‘mailbox’, the unsolicited manuscripts delivered through our online submission system or in response to a call for papers (as was the case for the Inequalities Symposium published in the first issue of the year).

Here then are the 2022 EJIL statistics for manuscripts submitted, accepted and published according to region, language and gender. We see no major deviations or changes in submission trends from recent years. We know where we would like to see differences in the future: we would welcome more submissions from regions that are underrepresented in Table 1. The percentage of submissions by women remains fairly constant (Table 3), although we see a higher acceptance rate for 2022 (41% compared to 31% in 2021). We are happy with the fact that the large majority of submissions as well as accepted and published articles come from non-English speaking countries (Table 2): whilst most authors may choose to write for EJIL in English, the journal is written in a more linguistically diverse world.

Table 1: Regional Origin (in percentages of total) 

Table 2: Linguistic Origin (in percentages of total) 

* Number of submissions;  ** Number of authors

Table 3: Gender (in percentages of total) 

* Number of submissions; ** Number of authors

Book Review EditorS

Christian Tams has been EJIL’s Book Review Editor since 2018. In that work, he has been masterfully assisted by Gail Lythgoe. In recognition of her significant intellectual contribution to book reviewing in EJIL, Gail has now become Co-Editor of the Book Review section.