About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The IGJR publishes articles from the humanities and the social sciences, reflecting the current state of research on intergenerational justice. The journal is released biannually and employs a scientific double-blind peer review process. The reviewers are chosen issue by issue with regard to the area of expertise for the special issue. They are chosen by the managing editorial team. The managing editorial team is supported by an editorial board that consists of 50 internationally renowned experts from ten different countries.

Unlike research articles, book reviews do not undergo formal double-blind peer review and are subject to editorial evaluation. Individuals interested in submitting a book review should refer to our Guidelines for Book Reviewers.

Citing the IGJR

The IGJR has appeared on a regular basis since 2015. In 2015, "Youth Quotas" was the only issue and is counted as Vol. 1 (1). Since 2016, the IGJR has appeared biannually (2016 = volume 2; 2017 = volume 3; etc.).
To cite an article in one of these issues, please indicate volume, issue and page number. For instance:
Bidadanure, Juliana (2015): Better Procedures for Fairer Outcomes: Youth Quotas in Parliaments. In: Intergenerational Justice Review, 1 (1), 40-46.

There were six special issues before 2015 that were not numbered consecutively. To cite an article in one of these pre-2015 issues, please use page numbers only without "volume".
For instance:
Lumer, Christoph (2009): Climate Change, Intergenerational Justice and Development. In: Intergenerational Justice Review, pp. 88-94.

Between 2013 and 2016, the journal benefited from the three-year expansion grant by the German Research Association (DFG).

Submitting to the IGJR

Articles submitted to the Intergenerational Justice Prize are subject to a double-blind peer review by an independent selection committee.

Unlike articles, the IGJR does consider publishing academic book reviews of recent literature relating to intergenerational justice. If you wish to submit a book review for consideration, please read pages 2-7 of the Author Guidelines (the submission checklist is irrelevant for book reviews). Please also refer to our Guidelines for Book Reviewers. Potential book reviewers need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Open Access Policy

The IGJR is published on an open-access basis in order to make its research findings available without restrictions to the scientific community and the wider public. The IGJR has neither article processing charges (APCs), nor article submission charges.

Copyright

Articles in IGJR are being published under the Creative-Commons License "CC 4.0 BY". On the basis of this license, the article may be edited and changed, but the author always has to be credited for the original work. By sending your article to IGJR, you agree to the publication of your article under this license. Please contact us if you do not want to have your article be published under CC 4.0 BY.

Indexing and Abstracting

IGJR is indexed under the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). For more information, visit doaj.org.

All issues can also be accessed article by article at the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR). Due to its availability via SSOAR, all articles are equipped with a Persistent Identifier (PID, see for example http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-49937-0). The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a second guarantee that each IGJR articles is identifiable.

The complete issues are available, among others, via this website and the German National Library (DNB), in which the journal is digitally archived. The Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) and the Electronic Journal Library (EZB) have also indexed the IGJR.