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  • Reviewing and the State of the Discipline

  • Paul A. Djupe, Brooklyn Evann Walker
  • Journal:
    PS: Political Science & Politics / Volume 58 / Issue 3 / July 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2025, pp. 561-568
    Print publication:
    July 2025
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  • By many accounts, the state of reviewing is in dire straits. Editors cannot get people to respond to review requests, much less to say yes and complete the review on time. In previous work (Djupe 2015; Djupe, Smith, and Sokhey 2022) conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic, reviewing was heavily concentrated in a core set of reviewers, reviewing increased with age and rank, and political scientists stood by the value of peer reviewing for themselves, the discipline, and the research. Is any of that still true in the post-pandemic period? This article analyzes a Summer 2024 survey of 637 political scientists in comparison with 2013 data and finds an evident decline in reviewing post-pandemic from those who historically review the most. This pattern likely reflects broader movements, especially toward diversification, in the discipline and in higher education.