Gender and Editorial Outcomes at Legislative Studies Quarterly: The Reviewer Pool

• Date: 01 November 2019
• Published date: 01 November 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12264

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LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY, 44, 4, November 2019

DOI: 10.1111/lsq.12264

Gender and Editorial Outcomes at Legislative Studies Quarterly:

The Reviewer Pool

A recent issue of the Legislative Studies Section’s newsletter, The

Legislative Scholar, had a very informative discussion of gender

issues related to the section. Some of the contributions made refer-

ence to Legislative Studies Quarterly. I recently shared information

about the gender of authors who submitted work to the journal

over the last few years. I want to add to that information some

details regarding our reviewer pool.

Given the quantity of names involved, the numbers reported below

are based only on manuscripts received during the 2018 calendar

year. We counted a reviewer once per round of reviews. Again, as a

frame of reference, the newsletter reported that 22% of Legislative

Studies section’s members are women. Overall, female scholars are

25% of LSQ’s reviewer pool.

In terms of publication recommendations made, female reviewers

recommend accept 10% of the time while male scholars recom-

mend accept 11% of the time. Female reviewers recommend R&R

26% of the time while male scholars also recommend R&R 26%

of the time. Female reviewers recommend reject 15% of the time

while male scholars recommend reject 25% of the time. Female re-

viewers are unavailable to review or fail to return a review before a

decision is made 49% of the time while male reviewers are unavail-

able to review or fail to return a review 38% of the time.

We will track this data going forward in order to share it on a

regular basis.

Brian Crisp

Executive Editor

Legislative Studies Quarterly

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