Emerging Scholar Best Article Award, 2011

Emerging Scholar Best Article Award, 2019

“…The selection process resulted in a pool of very impressive articles. This is similar to prior years (see Levesque 2011Levesque -2018. Unlike prior years, however, there was considerable variation in the range of topics that emerged.…”

“…Three manuscripts focused on peer relationships (Heinze et al 2018;Kim et al 2018;Yun and Graham 2018); two focused on academic achievement (Paschall et al 2018;Agger et al 2018); one focused on parenting (Missotten et al 2018), another on substance use (Debnam et al 2018), while others focused on risk taking (Duell et al 2018), on mindfulness (Moreira et al 2018), psychopathy (Fisher and Brown 2018) and on offending (Wolff et al 2018). Notably, Wolff and his colleagues were finalists last year (Wolff et al 2017;Levesque 2018).…”

Emerging Scholar Best Article Award, 2018

“…The selection process resulted in a pool of very impressive articles. This is similar to prior years (see Levesque 2011Levesque , 2012Levesque , 2013Levesque , 2014Levesque , 2015bLevesque , 2016Levesque , 2017b. Unlike prior years, however, there appears to be much less variation in the range of topics that emerged.…”

Presubmission Inquiries: Problematic, Counterproductive, and Unnecessary

“…Before submitting a presubmission inquiry to our journal, authors are encouraged to ask themselves whether their inquiry and study are going to ask too much of the editorial board and whether they are asking too much of the peer review process. The journal is rightly known for being supportive of authors, especially emerging scholars (see Levesque 2016cLevesque , 2017bLevesque , 2018, but it is difficult to be supportive of authors who fail in their due diligence before submitting manuscripts. Authors who submit presubmission inquiries tend to fail in that analysis as well as in the review process itself.…”