Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 49 (2023), 1

In the editorial of the first issue of the year of the Swiss Journal of Sociology (SJS) we usually look back on the past year, inform about personnel changes in the editorial team, and make an outlook on the coming year and upcoming projects. In a first step, the year 2022 is examined in more detail from a publishing perspective. SJS received a total of 36 articles, from which 23 were published (publication rate of roughly 64 per cent). Last year, more than two-thirds of the accepted articles were methodically qualitatively oriented. This represents the highest percentage value since 2010 (whereby the mean value of 45 percent qualitatively oriented articles applies for the period 2010–2016). The trend towards qualitative methods, however, has been continuing since 2021, when two thirds of all accepted articles were already qualitative studies. By far the most articles submitted last year were in English (around 66 percent). However, the figure corrects substantially to under 40 percent when looking at the number of accepted articles, resulting in a relatively balanced language distribution between German, French, and English. Thus, the trend has continued since 2017 that mainly English-language articles are accepted and published. This is despite the fact that the regional “origin” of the first authors since 2017 has always been the French-speaking part of Switzerland, followed by the German-speaking part of Switzerland, which in 2022 was the larger group again for the first time since 2017 (just under 35 percent).