Global topics, global reach: Welcome to PAR's newest editorial board members

• Published date: 01 January 2023
• Author: Jeremy L. Hall
• Date: 01 January 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13577

EDITORIAL

Global topics, global reach: Welcome to PAR’s newest editorial

board members

Jeremy L. Hall

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

Correspondence

Jeremy L. Hall, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Email: jeremy.hall@ucf.edu

With the new year arriving, Public Administration Review

(PAR) enters a new volume year—the last of my six-year

editorship. The journal is 83 years strong in 2023, and it

continues to be a global leader in producing timely,

action-focused, and rigorous research that is relevant to

the practice of public administration worldwide. In the

last year we saw evidence of this leadership as the Journal

Citation Reports (JCR) impact factor reached its all-time

high of 8.144. Readership thrives: article downloads show

that scholars and practitioners around the world remain

very interested in what PAR has to offer. So why is that?

Obviously, none of this is possible without our

authors, who submit their very best work for consider-

ation. In part, PAR’s success draws from altruism among

the many scholars in our discipline that leads them to

take peer review seriously, engaging in anonymized,

unbiased, scientific dialog about problems, research, and

analysis on myriad topics we collectively study. I have said

for the past 6 years that one journal cannot publish all of

the good work, and consequently we turn away a great

number of good papers, publishing only the best of the

best. In part, PAR’s success is attributable to its editorial

board, the members of which provide a sounding board

for me when it comes to questions of salience, relevance,

or practical significance of a piece. And, the hard work—

uncompensated work—of the editorial team to identify

reviewers, process manuscripts, and advise me on deci-

sions, has been invaluable.

This concise editorial is my opportunity to express

gratitude to each person who played a part in that suc-

cess. Each year a new leaf is turned; I send thanks to those

members of PAR’s editorial board who have honorably

completed their three-year term, and I welcome a new

group of editorial board members who will help to guide

PAR through its next wave of challenges and opportuni-

ties. Like last year’s appointees, these new members will

support the transition to a new team of editors in 2024.

At this time, I am pleased to extend my sincere gratitude

to a number of editorial board members for their service

from 2020 to 2022. It is always a little sad to bid farewell

to cherished members of a team, but I know that each

will continue to serve PAR in important ways for years

to come.

EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATES

Before moving into the editorial board transitions, I would

like to highlight a few transitions within my editorial

team. I am pleased to announce two new editors: Paola

Cantarelli and Bert George. Neither are strangers to the edi-

torial team, having previously served as managing editors.

As a result of their hard work and initiative, I have grown

to appreciate their breadth of knowledge, efficiency, and

dedication to process, and of course, their keen eye for

conceptual value and rigor within a manuscript. I am hon-

ored to advance them to these leadership roles.

As often happens, demands on the time of our most

productive scholars exceed their ability to deliver to all

who come to their respective wells to dip. Associate Edi-

tor Tima Moldogaziev has been my go-to resource for

budget and finance materials, but as his institutional

responsibilities have increased, he has found it necessary

to step back from his role at PAR. I respect that decision

and offer my sincere gratitude for his time and talent over

the last few years. His insight will be sorely missed.

DEPARTING EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

It is my pleasure to thank 29 individuals who completed

their 3-year term on the PAR editorial board at the end of

2022. I now recognize the following individuals for their

service: Akeem-Abdul Sadiq, David Ali, Catherine Althaus,

Domonic Bearfield, Ed Benton, Michael Bevis, Carmine

Bianchi, Justin Bullock, Robert Christensen, Rex Facer, Bert

George, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Doug Goodman, Irving

Huang, Willow Jacobson, Claire Knox, Stephanie Moulton,

Received: 1 December 2022 Accepted: 1 December 2022

DOI: 10.1111/puar.13577

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