Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The journal publishes original contributions on all aspects of Wittgenstein's thought and work - exegetical studies as well as papers drawing on Wittgensteinian themes and ideas in discussions of contemporary philosophical problems.

The journal is interdisciplinary in character, and publishes contributions in the subject areas of philosophy and other human and social studies including philology, linguistics, cognitive science, and others. Each issue includes an invited paper, an interview, a peer-reviewed articles section, a section in which seminal works are re-published or where previously unpublished archive materials are presented, as well as a book review section.

The journal is published by the Nordic Wittgenstein Society (NWS).

Nordic Wittgenstein Review employs a comprehensive dissemination strategy with regard to both its print and online versions. The journal articles will be interlinked with other online Wittgenstein resources (such as Wittgenstein Source, http://www.wittgensteinsource.org, containing 5000 pages of Wittgenstein Nachlass material). By state of the art indexing, the journal will provide its contributors with academic relevance and wide visibility.

 

Section Policies

Note from the Editors

Editors
  • Yrsa Neuman
Unchecked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Invited Paper

Editors
  • Yrsa Neuman
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Section i: Articles

Editors
  • Yrsa Neuman
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Section ii: Interview

Editors
  • Yrsa Neuman
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Section iii: From the Archives

Editors
  • Alois Pichler
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Section iv: Book Reviews

Editors
  • Martin Gustafsson
  • Yrsa Neuman
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Special Issue

Special issue articles should follow the journal's author guidelines. They are peer reviewed, by at least one reviewer and the peer review is not necessarily blind, although it can be.

Editors
  • Yrsa Neuman
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Replies

Responses to material published in NWR may be published in this section. A response requires a short abstract (one sentence) and should not exceed 4000 words in length.

Editors
  • Yrsa Neuman
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The journal implements a double-blind peer review process. The editorial procedures will be designed to follow best practice concerning excellence, impartiality, transparency, purposefulness, efficiency, confidentiality and integrity (cf. European Peer Review Guide).

The editors will first undertake a general eligibility and articles' compliance with the submission guidelines check.

The eligible articles will then be submitted to double-blind review, in which the identities of the reviewers and the authors are kept confidential from each other. Each article will be read by the editors and then, in cooperation with the editor-in-chief, assigned to two or more reviewers. The journal has an international advisory editorial board which assists in finding appropriate reviewers.

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

1. The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
2. With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
3. With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.

Each article is evaluated on the following basis:

* the originality of its contribution;
* the soundness of its argument and methodology given the topic;
* the coherence of its analysis;
* its ability to communicate to readers (grammar and style).

Decision on acceptance of articles will be taken by the editors based on the reviews and with the assistance of the Editorial Board.

Accepted articles will undergo an additional open peer review, during which all registered users incl. authors will be able to comment on and to discuss the accepted articles online for a period specified. This process will be moderated by the editors, and its results made available to the authors.

The journal follows the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.

 

Publication Frequency

2012 and 2013: Annually
2014 ->: Bi-annually or more

 

Open Access Policy

Nordic Wittgenstein Review is an Open Access journal.

The individual contributions are made available Open Access under the Creative Commons General Public License Attribution (CC-BY). The publisher (2012-13) and the Nordic Wittgenstein Society have the collected works copyright on the printed issues and digital editions. Exceptions exist and are marked in the articles or within the articles next to the items subject to exception.

 

Editors, Editorial Board, Advisory Board

In 2012 and 2013, the journal was edited by Alois Pichler and Simo Säätelä from the University of Bergen with one issue per year. From 2014 onwards, the journal will be edited by the member departments of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society in turn, with two issues (or more) annually, starting with Åbo Akademi University; Martin Gustafsson and Lars Hertzberg in 2014, and in 2015 Anne-Marie Söndergaard Christensen at the University of Southern Denmark with Martin Gustafsson (ÅA).

The editorial board is responsible for decisions on organizational matters. It consists of the members of the board of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society (www.nordicwittgensteinsociety.org > About the NWS). The editorial board appoints the editors and the editor-in-chief of the journal. The editorial board also appoints the advisory board.

The advisory board serves as a scientific advisory body. Its members assist in the peer review process as well as in selecting reviewers. The advisory board is appointed for a period of two years, while the editorial board is elected by the members of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society annually. The criteria for the composition of the advisory board are range and depth of expertise, reliability and international coverage.

The editors together with the editor-in-chief are in charge of the journal work flow and the integrity of the editorial process. While the editors may vary from issue to issue, the editor-in-chief represents the continuity of the journal and is its overall coordinator and contact person.

Editor-in-chief (2011-) Yrsa Neuman (Åbo Akademi University)

Editors (2015-16)
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Editors (2017-18)
Gisela Bengtsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tove Österman (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Editorial board (2011-15)
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Niklas Forsberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Alois Pichler (University of Bergen, Norway)
Simo Säätelä (University of Bergen, Norway)
Thomas Wallgren (Helsinki University, Finland)
Cato Wittusen (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Tove Österman (Uppsala University, Sweden), from 2015

Advisory Board 2015-17
Valerie Aucouturier (Université Saint-Louis, Brussels)
Avner Baz (Tufts University, Boston)
Anat Biletzki (Tel-Aviv)
Kevin Cahill (Bergen)
Bill Child (University of Oxford)
Alice Crary (New School, New York)
David Cockburn (Lampeter, Wales)
João Vergílio Gallerani Cuter (Sao Paolo)
Cora Diamond (University of Virginia)
Piergiorgio Donatelli (Rome)
Juliet Floyd (Boston)
Hans-Johann Glock (Zürich)
Anniken Greve (Tromsø)
PMS Hacker (Oxford)
Garry Hagberg (Bard College, NY)
Christian Kanzian (Innsbruck)
Oskari Kuusela (UEA)
Ed Minar (University of Arkansas Fayetteville)
Stefan Majetschak (Kassel)
Ray Monk (Southampton)
Katherine Morris (Oxford)
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire)
Volker Munz (Graz)
Klaus Puhl (Wien)
Duncan Richter (Virginia Military Institute)
Joachim Schulte (Universität Zürich)
Pär Segerdahl (Uppsala)
Richard Sørli (Bergen)
Sören Stenlund (Uppsala)
David Stern (Iowa)
Nuno Venturinha (Lissabon)
David Wellbery (Chicago)