[koglist] submissions to Pschological Science

During his talk this week, Rob Kail mentioned that he would check the statistics on submissions to Psychological Science from Hungary. A “submission from Hungary” is one in which the corresponding author lists his or her institutional address as being from within Hungary. Here’s what he found. In the last two years (2010, 2011), there were 17, which represented .31% of the 5,323 new manuscripts that were received during that period. Of the 17, 14 were triaged (i.e., neither of the two editors who read the paper thought it would be competitive for publication). Of the remainder, in one case, the outcome of initial review was that the author was encouraged to submit a revised version, which almost certainly would have been reviewed, but we never received the requested submission. In the other two cases, one manuscript was accepted and another made it past the evaluation and full peer review resulted in a revise-resubmit decision.