The manuscript handling figures for International Studies in the Philosophy of Science for 2014 were as follows. We received 31 unsolicited article manuscripts. The editor rejected two of these without seeking further advice, on the grounds that they fell outside the journal’s scope. The editor sent the other 29 manuscripts to referees. We rejected 15 manuscripts in the light of the referees’ comments, and we invited authors to send us a revised manuscript in 14 cases. We have received 10 revised manuscripts so far, and have accepted all for publication.
We also received four article manuscripts making up a thematic symposium, which we accepted for publication after revisions.
Referees have two main responsibilities: to advise the editor on which manuscripts to accept for publication, and to offer criticism and suggestions to help improve manuscripts. In the latter role, referees noticeably raise the quality of almost every article we publish; they also provide a service to the community by commenting on manuscripts that we are unable to accept. Members of our editorial board undertake some of the refereeing: their names are listed on the inside front cover of each issue, in the title pages of each volume of the journal, and on the journal website. The editor, however, approaches other scholars to carry our most of the refereeing. The external referees who worked for us in 2014, other than one referee who requested anonymity, are listed below. We thank all our referees for helping us in this way.
We are additionally grateful to editorial board members for representing the journal in the academic community and for scouting for promising manuscripts.
It is a pleasure to thank the team at Taylor & Francis Ltd. who worked on ISPS in 2014, and especially Atalanta Willcox, Senior Production Editor; Louise Evans, Production Editor; Ruth Glasspool and Lucy Sheach, Managing Editors; Emma Grylls, Publishing Editor; Harriet Canavan, Senior Marketing Executive; and Lauren Harvey, Marketing Coordinator.
Once again, we warmly invite scholars to send ISPS suitable article manuscripts within our scope, which we will be delighted to consider constructively for publication.
External Referees, 2014
Joseph A. Baltimore, West Virginia University
Thomas Benda, National Yang Ming University
Kelly Bronson, St. Thomas University
Claudia Brosseder, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Rosa Maria Calcaterra, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Gustavo Cevolani, Università degli Studi di Torino
Kevin Coffey, NYU Abu Dhabi
Sam Cowling, Denison University
Ipek Demir, University of Leicester
José Díez, Universitat de Barcelona
Kathy Fazekas, University of Connecticut
Leonore Z. Fleming, Utica College
Curtis Forbes, University of Toronto
Tiziana Foresti, Università Bocconi
Paul Forster, University of Ottawa
Victor Gijsbers, Universiteit Leiden
Simon Glynn, Florida Atlantic University
Matthew H. Haber, University of Utah
Catherine Herfeld, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Kate Hodesdon, University of Bristol
Milena Ivanova, University of Sydney
Karen Kastenhofer, Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Catherine Kendig, Missouri Western State University
Martin King, University of Guelph
Karin Knottenbauer, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Inkeri Koskinen, Helsingin yliopisto
Raphaël Künstler, Aix-Marseille Université
Roberto Lalli, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Elaine M. Landry, University of California, Davis
Merel Lefevere, Universiteit Gent
Catherine Legg, University of Waikato
Lisa Leininger, Virginia Commonwealth University
Loet Leydesdorff, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Cornelis Menke, Universität Bielefeld
Alessio Moneta, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Seán M. Muller, University of Cape Town
Karen Neander, Duke University
Onishi Yukinori, Kyoto University
Kit Patrick, University of Bristol
Yarí Pérez Marín, Durham University
Daniel Peterson, Berry College
Mark Pexton, Durham University
Samuli Pöyhönen, Helsingin yliopisto
Giuseppe Primiero, Middlesex University
Panu Raatikainen, Helsingin yliopisto
Andrés Rivadulla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Guillaume Rochefort-Maranda, Université Laval
Samuel Ruhmkorff, Smith College
Meridith Beck Sayre, Indiana University
Shan Yafeng, University College London
Karsten R. Stueber, College of the Holy Cross
Şerife Tekin, Daemen College
Adam Toon, University of Exeter
Iris van der Tuin, Universiteit Utrecht
Peter Vickers, Durham University
Susann Wagenknecht, Aarhus Universitet
Renate Wahsner, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Arno Wouters, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Ali Hassan Zaidi, Wilfrid Laurier University