About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal's aim is to:
Research, develop and articulate the new paradigm of cosmos, life, consciousness and society emerging at the cutting edge of contemporary research.
The journal provides a venue for leading edge, creative, transdisciplinary contributions. It encourages the application of new ways of thinking and approaches that draw on the intersection of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. World Futures welcomes critiques of limiting assumptions, as well as the development of new perspectives, on human nature, consciousness, society, and the nature of the universe. The journal is focused on the exploration, articulation, and application of human potentialities, and the implications for building a sustainable and humanistic future. It accepts articles, research notes and book reviews and invites essays relevant to its aim in all fields of interest from the sciences to the humanities.
Special Issues, usually entrusted to guest editors, focus on particular problems, themes or topics of current theoretical or practical relevance, specified in consultation with the Editor. They may encompass one to two issues within a given volume.Peer Review Policy: All articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous editorial screening and peer review.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Journal metrics
Usage
- 64K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.682 (2023) SNIP
- 0.274 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 132 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 254 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 17 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 63% 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
EDITED BY ERVIN LASZLO, Ph.D.
Villa Franatoni,
56040 Montescudaio (Pisa),
Italy
CO-EDITOR:
Alfonso Montuori, Ph.D.
E-mail: [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL AND U.S. EDITORIAL OFFICE MANAGING EDITOR:
Debby Flickinger
E-mail: [email protected]
EUROPEAN EDITORIAL OFFICE
WorldFutures/Budapest Klub
1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér 6, Hungary
E-mail: [email protected]
EDITORIAL BOARD
Kerubo Abuya
Ralph Abraham
Debashish Banerji
Milton Bennett
Gianluca Bocchi
David Boje
José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón
Ida Castiglioni
Mauro Ceruti
Eric J. Chaisson
Robert Chia
Bruce Clarke
Allan Leslie Combs
Riane Eisler
Jorge Ferrer
Renato Foschi
Giuseppe Gembillo
Lewis Gordon
Anthony Hodgson
Sohail Inayatullah
Analouise Keating
Emilian Kavalski
Stanley Krippner
Emanuel Kuntzelman
Alexander Laszlo
Juan Carlos Letelier
David Loye
Mauro Maldonato
Gerald Midgley
Nitamo Montecucco
James O’Dea
Jay Ogilvy
Elisabet Sahtouris
Ziauddin Sardar
Kathryn Goldman Schuyler
Pedro Sotolongo
Frederick Steier
Mirela Sula
Brian Swimme
Rick Tarnas
Haridimos Tsoukas
Alexander Wendt
CONSULTING EDITORS
Michel Alhadeff-Jones
Daniel Blackshields
Christopher Bache
Celiane Camargo Borges
Jeanine Canty
Jocelyn Chapman
Erik Davis
Shamik Desai
Piero Dominici
Gabrielle Donnelly
Ciaran Dunne
Amrita Ghosh
Sally Goerner
Olen Gunnlaugson
Deborah Hammond
Sean Kelly
Ignazio Masulli
Min Jiayin
Jeremy Johnson
Sacha Kagan
Tom Lombardo
Ignazio Masulli
Richard Mitchell
Diane Nijs
Mika Pantzar
Ron Purser
Abeer Salem
Matt Segall
Bethany Simmons
Stavroula Tsirogianni
Nick Walker
HONORARY EDITORS
Deepak Chopra
Jane Goodall
Stanislav Grof
Edgar Morin
Claudio Naranjo*
Ralph Metzner*
*Deceased
Abstracting and indexing
World Futures is abstracted/indexed in:
- De Gruter Saur (various)
- EBSCOhost (various)
- Elsevier BV
Scopus - Gale
Academic OneFile
Expanded Academic ASAP
General OneFile
InfoTrac Custom
- National Library of Medicine
PubMed
- OCLC
ArticleFirst
Electronic Collections Online
Humanities Index (Online)
Sociological Abstracts (Online)
- Periodica Islamica
- ProQuest (various)
Open access
World Futures 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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8 issues per year
Currently known as:
- World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research (1981 - current)
Formerly known as
- The Philosophy Forum (1968 - 1980)
- Pacific Philosophy Forum (1962 - 1968)
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