Journal Details
Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online
An international, open-access journal of the social sciences
Aims & Scope
Aims: Kotuitui aims to showcase the increasing number of collaborative research endeavours across the social sciences. Although of particular relevance to New Zealand, the journal's subject matter is of worldwide relevance and interest to researchers in universities, research institutes, and other centres. The Maori name ‘Kotuitui' means ‘interweaving', and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the journal.
Scope of submissions: Kotuitui publishes original research papers, short communications, book reviews, and letters. We welcome submissions from across all social science disciplines. Although the journal will predominately highlight research in the New Zealand context, international submissions are welcome. The journal's subject matter includes contributions from long-established fields (including psychology, economics, human geography, sociology, education, political science, anthropology, social work, population studies, and history); as well as more recent disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields such as public policy, development studies, conflict resolution, gender studies, international relations, security studies, human rights, cultural and ethnic studies, ethics, criminology, health, sustainability, communications, and media studies.
Authors are invited to submit research papers from all social science disciplines for consideration. Papers should be of high quality that can be expected to attract citations from other researchers, both international and domestic. As well as excellent disciplinary research, we welcome:
- papers connecting social science research to other disciplines
- multi- and trans-disciplinary research
- links between research and public policy
- research into national and international trends and issues relevant to New Zealand.
The journal will be freely available online, facilitating the distribution of New Zealand social science knowledge both nationally and internationally. Papers with likely high impact will be fast-tracked for rapid publication.
Although the journal will predominately highlight research in the New Zealand context, international work is welcome. All papers must be the original work of the author(s), and not under consideration by any other publisher.
The journal aims to showcase the increasing number of collaborative research endeavours across the social sciences and become an outlet that will capture lively, empirically based outputs from New Zealand researchers.
- No page charges for publication
- All papers are Open Access
- The online edition is produced in full colour at no cost to the author(s).
Electronic issues are published biannually
Online ISSN: 1177-083X
