About this journal
Aims and scope
Peace Review (PRJ) focuses on the issues and controversies that underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world. We define peace research very broadly to include peace, human rights, development, ecology, culture and related issues - from the micro to the macro, the personal to the planetary. The task of the journal is to present research and thinking in short, accessible and substantive essays, and to offer a scholarly platform for the communication of visual, auditory, and textual commentary on issues about peace, conflict, violence, and nonviolence. This quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal of research, analysis, and reportage aspires to publish issues developed around particular themes; each individual issue includes specific (on-theme), and general (off-theme) materials. We accept submissions for both on and off theme content for each issue.
Queries regarding topical themes from potential Guest Editors should be directed to Editorial @ the PRJ via this email: [email protected].
Peace Review has received several awards and honors, including:
- Utne Reader’s nomination of Peace Review for the magazine's Annual Independent Press Awards, which honors the very best in independent media from the pool of more than 1,300 sources. Peace Review received a nomination for the Utne Independent Press Award in International Coverage in both 2007 and 2010!
- Peace Review has been honored as a Project Censored Top 25 Most Censored Stories Award Winner 2000 for two essays: Ramsay Liem , "Famine in North Korea" and Yuh Ji-Yeon , "Dangerous Communists, Inscrutable Orientals, Starving Masses." For more information on Project Censored visit their website: www.projectcensored.org
Peer Review Policy:
All essays, reviews, interviews, collections, and orations submitted to this journal are screened by the editor-in-chief or the Cultural Curator. Special expert editors serve as single-anonymous peer reviewers for the special topic submissions and where an off-theme essay presents original research, it is sent out for anonymous peer review by at least one independent referee and one from within the journal’s editorial team.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Journal metrics
Usage
- 106K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.4 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.393 (2023) SNIP
- 0.163 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 36 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 41 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 9 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 51% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Katerina Standish
Associate Editors
Laura Reimer; Heather Devere; Katarzyna A. Przybyla; Erika Simpson; Rula Talahma
Cultural Curator
Tatiyana Bastet
Editor Emeritus (1991-2021)
Robert Elias
Board of Editorial Advisors
Catia Confortini - Wellesley College, USA
Celia Cook-Huffman - Manchester University, UK
Shawn Doubiago - University of San Francisco, USA
Rob Elias - University of San Francisco, USA
Cynthia Enloe - Clark University, USA
Richard Falk - Princeton University, USA
Pamina Firchow - Brandeis University, USA
Dietrich Fischer - World Peace Academy, Switzerland
Danny Fridberg - Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
Douglas Fry - University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Johan Galtung - Transcend, Norway
Dorota Gierycz - European Peace University, Austria
Nils Petter Gleditsch - Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway
J. Edward Greene - University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Maria Hantzopoulos - Vassar College, USA
J. S. Rohan Jeyapragasam - Madurai Kamaraj University, India
Paul Joseph - Tufts University, USA
Mary Kaldor - London School of Economics, UK
Heather Kertyzia - University for Peace, Costa Rica
Katsuya Kodama - Mie University, Japan
Lester Kurtz - George Mason University, USA
Sonja Licht - Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia
George Lopez - University of Notre Dame, USA
Eduardo Mendieta - Penn State University, USA
Marie Nissaka - Kainga Ora, New Zealand
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Sweden
Carol Rank - Coventry University, UK
Kumas Rupesinghe - Foundation for Co-existence, Sri Lanka
Abdul Aziz Said - American University, USA
R. Michelle Schaaf - University of Otago, New Zealand
Cathryne Schmitz - University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Imani Michelle Scott - Savannah College of Art and Design, USA
Hamideh Sedghi - Harvard University, USA
Ria Shibata - Toda Peace Institute, Japan
Olga Skarlato - McMaster University, Canada
Metta Spencer - University of Toronto, Canada
Ralph Summy - University of Queensland, Australia
Keith Suter - Global Directions, Australia
Rula Talahma - New Zealand Red Cross, New Zealand
Kelli te Maiharoa - Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
Julianne Traylor - Human Rights Advocates, USA
Maria Elena Valenzuela - International Labor Organization, Chile
Polly Walker - Juniata College, USA
Shalva Weil - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
Peace Review is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
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Calls for papers
Society information
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- Peace and Justice Studies Association
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