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Reflecting on present unease about structural biases in the discipline, and aiming to offer a data-rich response to some recent criticisms of this Journal, the Editorial Board has undertaken a study of the representation of female scholars in the Journal of Roman Studies. To that end, we have gathered data on publications, submissions and JRS Editorial Board membership for the past fifteen years, from Volume 95 (2005) through to the present volume, Volume 109 (2019). The data are set out in the final section (VII), following a brief review of the main results.

The paper discusses the criteria adopted from 2016 by the ANVUR – the
Italian Agency for the evaluation of the Universities and of the scientific
research – in order to classify the scientific journals in the SSH fields, in which
bibliometric indicators are not used. In particular, the paper analyzes the
decision to create a class of excellence for journals and to assess the quality of
articles, and of journals, using the VQR scores. Besides, the paper addresses
problems connected to the peer-review, the methodology proposed by ANVUR