Report from the Editor (2020)

ABSTRACT

The new team, led by Professor Carmen Martínez Novo (University of Florida), will take over the evaluation of manuscripts in January 2021, and it will select articles to be published starting in volume 57 (2022).1 It has been a great honor to serve as LARR's editor in chief during an era of great transformations. Since 2016, LARR has completed the transition to open access and ended circulation by subscription;it has connected with readers through social networks and a blog;it has created a new LASA award;it has established itself as a top journal for the humanities while preserving its traditional strength in the social sciences;and it has improved its impact factor considerably. At the end of 2019, our associate editors were Xóchitl Bada (sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago), Mónica Espinosa Arango (anthropology, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia), Claudia Ferman (documentary film review editor, University of Richmond), Michel Gobat (history, University of Pittsburgh), Fabrice Lehoucq (book review editor, University of North Carolina), Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (literature and cultural studies, University of Miami), José Molinas Vega (economics, Instituto Desarrollo, Paraguay), and Jana Morgan (politics and international relations, University of Tennessee). The most active fields in 2019 were politics and international relations (27 percent of all submissions) and literature and cultural studies (16 percent). Of thirty-nine research papers published in 2019, 44 percent were in the humanities (anthropology, history, and literature and cultural studies) and 56 percent in the social sciences (economics, political science and international relations, and sociology), with political science, sociology, literature, and history being the most prominent subjects.