For authors
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Calls for papers are also circulated for regular issues as well as for special issues and sections.
Migrating Minds only accepts unpublished manuscripts that are not under consideration elsewhere.
Books to be reviewed should be theoretical or critical (no creative works) and should have been published no more than two years before the date of the journal issue for which the review is being proposed. (ex. no earlier than a 2023 publication for a review in a 2025 issue).
All submissions should be in English. Articles written in other languages may be accepted contingent upon the production of a viable English translation.
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism does not charge authors any fee for submission, processing, or publication of their work.
Authors must comply with copyright laws and laws of privacy and libel. They are also expected to request and secure permission to use material created by others, including text quotations and images, and revised versions of their previously published work.
Originality
Authors fully commit to submitting entirely original work. They are not allowed to copy text, ideas, or figures from other sources (including their own previously published work) without proper citation.
Should Migrating Minds detect any instance of plagiarism, the submitted text will be rejected–or retracted if already published–, potentially with further disciplinary actions according to the severity of the violation.
Stylesheet
Contributors should upload their articles, book reviews, or review essays for consideration (in English and in .doc or .docx format — no pdf are accepted) using the designated submission form and complying with the bibliographic and formatting standards described in the journal stylesheet.
Submission process
Prospective authors wishing to discuss proposals for articles or reviews can contact the Editors-in-chief at migratingminds@georgetown.edu.
Scholars may also suggest a topic for a special Issue or section within the scope of the journal and act as guest editors. Proposals should be submitted using the designated submission form.
When a proposal for a special Issue or section is accepted, its submission and publication schedule will be agreed upon with the guest editor(s) conforming to the journal’s production timeline. Articles for special issues or special sections are subject to the same editorial evaluation process as regular submissions, including the external double-blind peer review.
Peer review and selection process
Article and book review proposals as well as the complete texts submitted to the journal are first reviewed by the Editors-in-chief and members of the Editorial board. Submissions that do not fall within the journal’s focus area or that do not meet the journal’s quality standards for research content or presentation are rejected at this preliminary stage.
In the case of articles that are aligned with the aims and scope of the journal but that need improvement, revisions may be requested already at this stage, prior to the external review process. If and when considered satisfactory by the Editors-in-chief, full-text articles are then anonymously peer-reviewed by two external scholars in the field for further evaluation. If necessary, a third external evaluation will be sought.
Book reviews and book review articles generally do not go through a separate double-blind peer-review process after the thorough internal evaluation by the journal’s Editorial board, but they may occasionally be sent out to external specialists if additional assessment is needed.
The initial internal review process for articles, book reviews, and book review articles is expected to take 4-5 weeks. The external peer review process for articles is expected to take 2 months. Contributions will be accepted for publication only once authors have made all the revisions suggested by the internal and external reviewers.
Copyright and licensing policy
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is an Open Access journal. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication and distribution under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 BY-NC License, allowing others to freely distribute and adapt the work with proper attribution. In other words, authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of their work (e.g., deposit it to an institutional or other repository of their choice, or publish it in a book), provided that they acknowledge its initial publication in this journal. Authors are required to inform the Migrating Minds Editors-in-chief of any instances of re-publication.
Code of conduct
- General duties and responsibilities of the Editorial board
Editors-in-chief and the Editorial board of Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism are accountable for the contents published in the journal. They will adhere to processes and standards ensuring the quality of the published material as well as commitment to freedom of expression. The Editorial board is willing to publish errata and apologies whenever needed. - Relations with readers
The Editors strive to ensure the quality of the published material, and to announce each issue as extensively as possible so as to share research results with a wide international community of readers. - Relations with authors
The decision concerning the acceptance or rejection of each paper is based on the paper’s originality, clarity, and sophistication, as well as on the validity of the study and its relevance to the broad interests of the journal. The Editorial board is available to provide explanations about the double-blind review processes. - Relations with reviewers
The Editors should provide guidance to reviewers, explaining the standards and expectations of the evaluating process. The Editors strive to ensure the protection of data and the confidentiality of the submitted material. - Relations among Editorial board members
The Editorial board regularly updates members about new policies and developments, and organizes periodic meetings to discuss issues and decisions pertaining to the journal. New board members are chosen according to their credentials and ability to actively contribute to the development and management of the journal. The Editorial board will provide each new member with guidelines spelling out their responsibilities. - Editorial and peer review processes
The Editors strive to ensure that the peer review process is unbiased and timely. They are responsible for the confidentiality of the submitted material while under review. - Quality assurance
The Editors are responsible for the quality of the material they publish, recognizing that different journal issues may have different aims. - Dealing with possible misconduct
The Editors have a duty to act if they suspect misconduct or if any allegation of misconduct is brought to their attention. This concerns both published and unpublished papers. - Encouraging debate
The Editors encourage and are willing to consider cogent criticism of work published in their journal. Authors of the criticized material are given the opportunities to respond.