Review and Editorial Process

All articles in lambda nordica are submitted to double-blind peer review. The editors receive submitted manuscripts, manages peer review and takes decisions on whether to publish a submitted manuscript. After a brief initial review of the article, the editors will decide whether to present it to anonymous peer reviewers. For each submitted article, the editors aim to take a decision whether to publish it without delay. The actual time required however depends on the actual workload on the editors as well as the availability of a peer reviewer in the field of the article.

Publishing Policy

The journal is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-ND license. Authors retain full copyright with first publication rights to lambda nordica.

lambda nordica publishes manuscripts around twelve months from the date of the decision and provides the author with one copy of the printed edition without charge. Authors are further offered to buy 10 copies at discounted price (“F-pris”) which is at a minimum 30 % less than the current single-issue price.

Policy for Ethical Oversight

The journal follows the ethical guidelines and best practices set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All cases of ethical misconduct will be dealt with in accordance with COPE’s recommendations and guidelines.

Policy for Changes and Corrections of Published Material and Post-Publication Discussion

The conditions of publication with persistent identifiers such as DOIs include that the object published is final and not changed without clearly informing readers of such changes.

Articles published in the journal cannot therefore be changed without a) an erratum or b) a change notice being published and linked to the original article.

If a factual error in an article is discovered, this should be reported to the editors-in-chief, who decide on possible actions and possible corrections.

The journal encourages post-publication discussion through letters to the editor or on an externally moderated website for review and post-publication discussion of research, such as PubPeer.

Charges

lambda nordica does not charge any fees from author's, nor processing charges (APCs) or article submission fees.

Publication Malpractice

The editors of lambda nordica actively check all manuscripts for plagiarism and other publication malpractices; using the Ouriginal service on suspicion of plagiarism. On suspicion of publication malpractice, the editors proceed in accordance with the current guidelines adopted by the organization COPE. COPE’s guidelines address several typical situations, such as plagiarism, fabrication of empirical data, appropriation by a peer reviewer of matter from the reviewed text, incorrectly designated author(s) as well as conflict of interest.

Publishing Plan

Yearly two single and one double issue are published. Issues can be thematic or open. See our Calls for Papers for the themes of upcoming issues.