Turnaround times and acceptance rates in political science journals

It would be great if the psjournals app included information on turnaround times and acceptance rates in political science journals. This is one of the most common requests that I receive from its users, and I could not agree more.

These statistics are unfortunately unavailable for many journals.

The ones published by Taylor & Francis are now a welcome exception. The publisher has recently started to provide statistics on journal turnaround times and acceptance rates on its website — in separate sections for individual journals.

This blogpost brings these statistics together, available for 194 of the journals classified under Politics & International Relations by the publisher.

I last collected the data on 20 June 2022. In case you need up-to-date statistics at any time in the future, the code that does the job is available on GitHub.

All turnaround times indicate the median, measured in days. Further details on measurement are available on the publisher’s website.

See also the graphs that summarise the statistics at the end of the post.