¹ This amounted to 49 rejections without review of interpretive/conceptual submissions, of which 24 were in normative theory, 9 in comparative, and 8 in international relations. Eight of the interpretive/conceptual submissions were self-categorized as qualitative, and one of the eight was rejected without review.

² Editorial Manager permits, but does not require, such finer-grained self-descriptors.

³ The impact factor is the number of times in the given year (e.g., 2009) that the average article that appeared in the given journal within the previous two years (e.g., 2007–08) was cited in articles in other scholarly journals.

⁴ A chart comparing the impact factors of a number of journals within the discipline can be found at http://www.journals.cambridge.org/psc2011001.

⁵ Cf. Daniel Drezner, “All This Policy Relevance Is Making My Head Spin,” Public Policy, April 17, 2010. http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/04/17/all_this_policy_relevance_is_making_my_head_spin.