Report of the Editor To the Editorial Board of Polish Journal of Political Science, January 15, 2015

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PJPS. Working Papers Annual Report for 2014

Report of the Editor To the Editorial Board

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Polish Journal of Political Science, January 15, 2015

Introduction

This Report of Editor to the Editorial Board to the Polish Journal of Political Science has two purposes. The first is to review developments and trends in submissions during the previous year. The second is to review my editorial goals and accomplishments over last two years.

The Year in Review

Table 1 reports crucial date about Working Papers section of PJPS.

Table 1. PJPS Working Papers Section in 2014

Subject Data Add notations

Submissions 20

Declines 2 One paper send back for

amendments, maybe accepted in future

% of declines 10%

Issued working papers 18

Issued book reviews 2

Unique affiliations (authors) 4 + one with no affiliation

Working papers are reviewed by associated editors.

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Goals and Accomplishments

Our main goal was to maintain schedule and publish every issue till end of last month of quarter and collaborate with authors affiliated in institutions around Poland. The second, was part of obtaining minimal recognition in polish scientific society.

We managed to publish issues on regular basis and our journal obtain some recognition at least within young fellow researchers.

Though Working Paper section was meant to last for two starter years we plan to sustain it for next year, as Ph.D. candidates are willing to participate in project and published works that require yet some amendments, but are good debate starting points.

Changes in Editorial Staff

Changes in editorial staff in 2015 are expected. Some of our associated editors will probably be replaced. Main goal will be to find language editors to cooperate with journal on regular basis – especially with coming of Research Paper section.

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Editorial Board and Editor – December 2014

Editorial Board

 Prof. Clifford Angell Bates Jr., University of Warsaw

 Prof. Stephen Brooks, University of Michigan

 Prof. Michael Freeden, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford

 Prof. Paolo Pombeni, University of Bologna

 Prof. Bogdan Szlachta, Jagiellonian University in Krakow

 Prof. Tomasz Żyro, University of Warsaw Editor

 Jarosław Szczepański Associate Editors

 Kamil Aksiuto

 Przemysław Biskup

 Aneta Marcinkowska (Statistics)

 Iwona Miedzińska

 Krystian Pałyska

 Maciej Sadowski

 Łukasz Smalec

 Jan Szczepanowski

 Marta de Zuniga

Working Papers Reviewers

 Przemysław Biskup, University of Warsaw

 Maciej Sadowski, University of Warsaw

 Łukasz Smalec, Centre for International Initiatives

 Jarosław Szczepański, University of Warsaw