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How International Is Political Science? Patterns Of Submission And Publication In The American Political Science Review, Marijke Breuning, Ayal Feinberg, Benjamin Isaak Gross, Melissa Martinez, Ramesh Sharma, John Ishiyama

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How international in scope is publishing in political science? Previous studies have shown that the top journals primarily publish work by scholars from the US and, to a lesser extent, other global north countries. However, such studies used published content and could not evaluate the impact of the review process on the relative absence of international scholars in journals.

Here, we evaluate patterns of submission and publication by US and international scholars for the American Political Science Review (APSR) – one of the most selective peer-reviewed journals in the discipline. We find that scholars from the US and other global …