The 2015 manuscript handling figures for International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (ISPS) were as follows. We received 45 unsolicited article manuscripts. The editor rejected seven of these without seeking further advice, on the grounds that they fell outside the journal’s scope or failed minimum scholarly standards. The editor sent the other 38 manuscripts to referees. We rejected 22 manuscripts in the light of the referees’ comments, and we invited authors to send us a revised manuscript in the other 16 cases. One author withdrew a manuscript at that point. We received 15 revised manuscripts, and accepted all for publication.
Our referees play two main roles: to advise the editor on which manuscripts to accept for publication, and to offer criticism and suggestions to help authors improve their 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 offering feedback on manuscripts that we are unable to accept. Members of our editorial board undertake some 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. External referees, however, carry out most refereeing. The external referees who worked for us in 2015, 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. The editor reviewed the state of the journal in April 2015 with editorial board members participating in the Annual Philosophy of Science Conference, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, the forum in which ISPS was founded in 1986.
It is a pleasure to thank the team at Taylor & Francis Ltd. who worked on ISPS in 2015, and especially Louise Evans, Production Editor; Lucy Sheach and George Cooper, Managing Editors; Emma Grylls, Publishing Editor; and Meredith Sneddon and Diane Minvalla, Marketing Executives.
We renew our warm invitation to scholars to offer suitable article manuscripts to ISPS: we will be delighted to consider them constructively for publication.
External Referees, 2015
Ben Almassi, Governors State University
Margherita Arcangeli, Université de Genève
Eran Asoulin, Macquarie University
Stefano Balietti, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Delphine Bellis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam, University of California, San Diego
Max Bialek, University of Maryland, College Park
Maarten Boudry, Universiteit Gent
Anna M. C. de Bruyckere, Durham University
Angelo Cei, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
James H. Collin, University of Edinburgh
Justin Dallmann, University of Southern California
Ana Delicado, Universidade de Lisboa
Paul Draper, Purdue University
Steffen Ducheyne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
James Elwick, York University
Ludwig Fahrbach, Universität Duisburg-Essen
José Ferreirós, Universidad de Sevilla
Aldo Filomeno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
J. Dmitri Gallow, New York University
Greg Gandenberger, University of Pittsburgh
Gao Shan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Justin Garson, Hunter College
Jean-Luc Gautero, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
Raoul Gervais, Universiteit Gent
Machteld Geuskens, Tilburg University
Marco Giovanelli, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Mohammad Reza Haghighi Fard, Universiteit Leiden
Marta Halina, University of Cambridge
Sreekumar Jayadevan, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Caroline Jullien, Université de Lorraine
Bart Karstens, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Martin King, University of Guelph
Alexander Klein, California State University, Long Beach
Heikki J. Koskinen, Helsingin yliopisto
Adam La Caze, University of Queensland
Peter J. Lewis, University of Miami
Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia
Laureano Luna, IES Dr. Francisco Marín
Kelvin J. McQueen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexander Mebius, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
João Ribeiro Mendes, Universidade do Minho
Michiru Nagatsu, Helsingin yliopisto
Paul M. Näger, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Oliver Passon, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Grace Paterson, Stanford University
María de Paz, Universidade de Lisboa
Guillaume Schlaepfer, Université de Genève
Raphael Scholl, University of Pittsburgh
Gisele Dalva Secco, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Jamie Shaw, University of Western Ontario
Brendan Shea, Rochester Community and Technical College
Martin Smith, University of Glasgow
Sofia Inês Albornoz Stein, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
Alex von Stein, University of Arizona
Matteo Vagelli, Université Paris 1—Panthéon-Sorbonne
Xu Yingjin, Fudan University