Vital Statistics

Every year the EJIL editors learn and consider tons of of manuscripts submitted to the journal for potential publication. The overwhelming majority of these submissions, together with the manuscripts which are accepted after which printed in our pages, come to us, not by invitation, however reasonably by our on-line submission system.  EJIL commissions solely a really small portion of articles printed in EJIL – the Foreword article and accompanying Afterwords, occasional Debate Replies (some additionally are available in spontaneously), and the ESIL nook. As well as, EJIL manuscripts are subjected to double-blind peer assessment, so elements of geography, first language or gender don’t affect our peer reviewers. Given these two elements, we imagine that the statistics we draw up on an annual foundation, however their limitations and flaws, present an image of the vary of authors submitting to and publishing in EJIL. As well as, they might over time additionally present data on altering traits within the who’s who of publishing in EJIL and maybe extra typically in worldwide regulation scholarship.

That mentioned, our statistics include numerous caveats. Our submissions database gives solely primary, generally incomplete information – our data on regional origin relies on skilled affiliation reasonably than nationality, just because we would not have that data; so too, linguistic origin is set on the idea of affiliation, which produces awkward outcomes, reminiscent of a Chilean writer within the US being counted as English-speaking, while an Australian writer in Germany is counted as non-English-speaking; the database gives data solely on the contact writer, which signifies that co-authors are uncared for by the system. We manually depend all of the authors of multi-authored items for accepted and printed articles, however the quantity of manuscripts we obtain every year makes it unimaginable to depend all authors for the submissions class.

Right here then are the statistics for 2024.

1: Area of Authors’ Affiliation (in percentages of complete) 

All Submissions*

Accepted articles**

Revealed articles**

Europe (which incorporates the UK)

50

66

66

Oceania

8

17

12

Africa

3

0

1

Asia

26

6

6

South America

2

3

4

North America

11

8

11

* Variety of submissions  ** Variety of authors

2: Linguistic Origin (in percentages of complete) 

All submissions*

Accepted articles**

Revealed articles**

English-speaking nations

21

45

42

Non-English-speaking nations

79

55

58

* Variety of submissions  ** Variety of authors

3: Gender (in percentages of complete) 

All submissions*

Accepted articles**

Revealed articles**

Male

58

54

55

Feminine

42

46

45

** Variety of authors

Lastly, returning to our earlier level that these statistics could provide data over time relating to publishing traits, the chart beneath tracks the odds of female and male authors printed in EJIL from 2014, once we started to compile statistics, to 2024, the most recent statistics obtainable. It might seem, with an occasional blip, that there was a gradual enhance within the proportion of feminine authors of printed EJIL articles.