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Australian & New Zealand
Journal of Criminology
Editorial 2014, Vol. 47(l) 3-4
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DOI: 10.1 177/0004865813517610
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OSAGE
We have now completed our first year as Co-Editors of the Journal it has involved a
steep, but highly rewarding, learning curve not only for us, but for our wonderful edi-
torial team (our two Associate Editors, Elizabeth Stanley and Rick Brown, our Book
Review Editor, James Oleson, and our tireless Managing Editor, Fiona Saunders). We
have enjoyed terrific support from all of these colleagues, as well as from the members of
our Editorial and International Advisory Boards, and the editorial team at Sage. To all
of them, we express our unreserved appreciation and thanks. Following this editorial,
we have listed all of the 136 reviewers who have generously agreed to blind-review
submissions for us since we took over the editorship on the ]st October 2012, to the
end of 2013. We are profoundly grateful for the advice which these able scholars from
around the world have provided to us, to our Associate Editors, and to our submitting
authors. Quite simply, without being able to rely on their willing and voluntary assis-
tance and support, it would not be possible for us to do the job of editors as we should,
and the resulting published articles would not reflect the consistently high scholarly
standards that they do. Despite this, we of course accept sole responsibility for any
bad editorial decisions we may have made so far the editorial buck stops with us!
When we first took on the editorship of the Journal, we identified three important
goals that we wanted to pursue: raising further the international profile of the Journal;
increasing contributions to the Journal from criminologists in New Zealand; and ensur-
ing that the articles in the Journal reflect new and innovative ideas in the field of crim-
inology, and emerging trends in crime and criminal justice, as well as building on more
long established ones. We have made progress towards each of these goals, but not
enough on all of them. During our first year we received 30 submissions (39% of all
submissions received) from authors based outside Australia and New Zealand, but have
so far only been able to publish six of them. We have so far not been successful in
attracting submissions from authors based on the African continent, and have received
only a handful of submissions from countries outside North America, the UK and Asia.
Meanwhile, in 2013 the Journal rose from 32 to 31 in the ranking of the top 52 crim-
inology journals; the credit for this, however, must go to our predecessor editor, Sharon
Pickering. So internationalising the Journal remains a work in progress. As does
attracting submissions from New Zealand authors only five so far since we took
over the editorship, of which we've been able to publish two so far. Increasing
New Zealand involvement in the Journal will be a top priority for us in 2014, aided
by our Kiwi Associate Editor and Book Review Editor.
Our ability to publish articles and special issues has been limited by the fact that there
are only three issues of the Journal each year; since we receive about 80 submissions each
year; this means that we can only publish about 25% of them, and very few special
issues. So we have been in discussion with the Society and Sage to explore the possibility](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/anzjc47&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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