International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (ISPS) reports the following manuscript handling figures for 2016. We received 35 unsolicited article manuscripts. The editor rejected three of these without seeking further advice, on the grounds that they fell outside the journal’s scope or failed to meet minimum scholarly standards. The editor sent the other 32 manuscripts to referees. We rejected 13 manuscripts in the light of the referees’ comments, and we invited authors to send us a revised manuscript in the other 19 cases. We received 17 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 giving 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 of the work. The external referees who helped us in 2016 are listed below. We thank all our referees for their service to the profession.
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 at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, in April 2016 with editorial board members participating in the Annual Philosophy of Science Conference, 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 2016, and especially George Cooper, Managing Editor; Louise Evans, Production Editor; Stephen Kirton and William Padgett, Production Team Leaders; and Emma Lockwood, Editorial Assistant.
We once again look forward to publishing the best of the work in philosophy of science offered to us in the coming year.
External Referees, 2016
Sabine Ammon, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Lise Marie Andersen, Aarhus Universitet
Theodore Arabatzis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Mario Bacelar Valente, Universidad de Sevilla
Samet Bağçe, Middle East Technical University
Matthew Barker, Concordia University
Umut Baysan, University of Glasgow
Daniel S. Brooks, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Peter Brössel, University of Pittsburgh
Karim Bschir, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Ross Cameron, University of Virginia
Jessica Carter, Syddansk Universitet
François Claveau, Université de Sherbrooke
Sharon Crasnow, Norco College
Michael Cuffaro, University of Western Ontario
Janette Dinishak, University of California, Santa Cruz
Lucas Dunlap, University of Western Ontario
David Eck, Cañada College
Matthias Egg, Universität Bern
Alexander Ehmann, Lingnan University
Benjamin Eva, University of Bristol
Joachim Frans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Simon Friederich, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Stefano Gattei, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Emma C. Gordon, independent scholar
James Hawthorne, University of Oklahoma
Tobias Henschen, Universität Konstanz
Witold Hensel, Uniwersytet w Białymstoku
Colin Howson, University of Toronto
Marek Jakubiec, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
Lina Jansson, University of Nottingham
Workineh Kelbessa, Addis Ababa University
Alex Koo, University of Toronto
Harry E. Lewendon-Evans, Durham University
Ramzi Mabsout, American University of Beirut
Vera Matarese, University of Hong Kong
Casey D. McCoy, University of Edinburgh
Brian T. Miller, Rice University
Ronei Clécio Mocellin, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Daniele Molinini, Université Paris Diderot—Paris 7
Fernando Morett, London School of Economics and Political Science
Nicola Mößner, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Ryan Muldoon, University at Buffalo
Florian Müller, Universität Zürich
Lenka Naldoniová, Ostravská univerzita
Samantha Noll, Haverford College
Robert Northcott, Birkbeck, University of London
Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech
Alison Pease, University of Dundee
Elena Popa, Central European University
Rupert Read, University of East Anglia
Sébastien Rivat, Columbia University
Menno Rol, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Lauren N. Ross, University of Calgary
Fernanda Samaniego, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Markus Seidel, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Jacob Stegenga, University of Cambridge
Nahuel Sznajderhaus, University of Leeds
Edit Talpsepp, Tartu Ülikool
Mike Thicke, Bard College
Frédéric Tremblay, Saint Petersburg State University
Jordi Vallverdú, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Lukas M. Verburgt, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Christopher G. Weaver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sylvia Wenmackers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Michael Wilde, University of Kent
Nathan Wildman, Universität Hamburg
Alastair Wilson, University of Birmingham
Karen R. Zwier, Drake University