European Union Politics

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Journal info (provided by editor)

Issues per year
4
Articles published last year
28
Manuscripts received last year
120
% accepted last year
18
% immediately rejected last year
35
Open access status
optional
Manuscript handling fee?
no
Kind of complaint procedure
Editor
Two-year impact factor
2.04
Five-year impact factor
2.37

About

European Union Politics is an international academic journal for advanced peer reviewed research and scholarship on all aspects of the process of government, politics and policy in the European Union. EUP aims to stimulate debate and provide a forum to bridge the theoretical and empirical analysis on the political unification of Europe.

SciRev ratings (provided by authors) (based on 6 reviews)

Duration of manuscript handling phases
Duration first review round 1.9 mnths compare →
Total handling time accepted manuscripts 4.3 mnths compare →
Decision time immediate rejection 2 days compare →
Characteristics of peer review process
Average number of review reports 3.0 compare →
Average number of review rounds 2.2 compare →
Quality of review reports 4.2 compare →
Difficulty of reviewer comments 4.0 compare →
Overall rating manuscript handling 4.8 (range 0-5) compare →

Latest review

First review round: 10.8 weeks. Overall rating: 5 (excellent). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
Very tough comments from 4 reviewers. The best experience I ever had with a journal's editorial staff! Excellent final editing. They replicated all my analyses!