Same comment I put on the original – In talking with colleagues who regularly contribute in this IR/environment space, I think there is plenty of work getting done but published in other outlets. The traditional IR journals are traditional in terms of topical focus and methods and have proven (or their reviewers at least) to be uninterested. JPR, as you flag, is a notable exception especially vis a vis questions of environment, climate, conflict, and peace. Long-time editor Nils Petter Gleditch and new editor Henrik Urdal themselves have made contributions in this space as well as many contributions outside it. International Security was a place IR/environment scholars turned in the 1990s but less so today.

Scholars in this space are acting rationally in ways that go beyond impact factor and journal reputation narrowly defined within the discipline. We are interested in having people read, comment, cite, and engage with the work. Therefore we look to outlets where the (wider) community focuses such as Global Environmental Politics and Global Environmental Change or even farther afield from IR, journals like Climatic Change where there is a willingness to do special issues on for example climate change, conflict, and security. On occasion, the pinnacle placement is Nature or Science, top journals for many fields by any measure.

The pool of scholars engaging on IR/environment topics also comes from a wider set of disciplines. These topics commonly have scholars engaging from geography, anthropology, sociology, migration studies, development studies, political ecology, environmental studies where the common thread is more plural interdisciplinary and methodological approaches. They aren’t often focused on IR theory narrowly constructed, but they are contributing to robust and active debates that should be part of the IR/environment discussion.