Monitoring
Since 2023, the Open Gender Journal publishes an annual overview of key figures on its activities, which authors, the professional public, and funders can use to compare and evaluate the journal. In doing so, we follow the guidelines of Plan S and KOALA. The statistics of the Open Journal System serve as data basis.
Overview
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of submissions: | 58 | 76 | 32 | 23 |
| Number of reviews requested: | 48 | 65 | 30 | 27 |
| Number of reviews received: | 51 | 51 | 27 | 23 |
| Acceptance rate: | 36% | 40% | 32% | 44% |
| Average time between submission and publication: | 329 days | 328 days | 205 days | 202 days |
Monitoring Report for 2025
In 2025, 58 new manuscripts were submitted to Open Gender Journal. 29 research articles, nine book reviews, and one article for the Forum section were intended for the annual issue(s). In addition, 19 manuscripts were submitted to special issues.
The editorial team requested 48 reviews via OJS in 2025. However, the actual number of requests is higher, as new reviewers are initially contacted by email. 51 reviews were submitted during the year.
For 2025, the Open Gender Journal has a rejection rate of 64 percent. 94 percent of the rejected submissions were rejected before the review (“desk rejections”). As explained in the monitoring report for 2023, these desk rejections are due to a lack of publication maturity and the authors receive detailed feedback, often combined with an offer to resubmit a revised version.
An average of 329 days passed between submission and publication of the articles in 2025. We are pleased to have maintained the average publication time of 2024, even though we have almost tripled the publication volume this year, which has increased from 15 to 43 articles.
Most of the time is accounted for by the revision phase after peer review. During this phase, the authors are closely supervised by the editorial team and once again supported by external editing by the agency Qwir text + design.
