In 2022, Comparative Politics received 274 manuscripts, of which 40 percent were sent to external peer readers for review and 60 percent were rejected in-house. The average time of the review process, from submission to decision, was 26 days. The average decision time for only externally reviewed manuscripts was 61 days.

The Editorial Committee accepted for publication 7 percent of submissions and invited resubmissions of revised manuscripts for another round of external peer review of another 5 percent of submissions.