Focus and Scope

Metaphysics is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing current research in the field of metaphysics. It is administered by the Metaphysics Collaborative, an international organization founded in 2015 whose purpose is to facilitate collaboration among metaphysicians worldwide. The journal focuses on contemporary and historical metaphysical topics that engage with themes from the Aristotelian and neo-Aristotelian traditions. Articles can be submitted at any time; those received after the cut-off date for the current issue will automatically be considered for publication in future issues.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publically available.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no embargo on the journal’s publications. Submission and acceptance dates, along with publication dates, are made available on the PDF format for each paper.

Authors of articles published remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement.

Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories. For a list of generic and subject specific repositories that meet our peer review criteria, see here.

Journal Archiving

The journal’s publisher focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability.

Journals are indexed by the following services:

Google Scholar
Cengage Learning
Chronos
ExLibris
EBSCO Knowledge Base
CrossRef
JISC KB+
SHERPA RoMEO
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
OpenAire
ScienceOpen

In addition, all journals are available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.

To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.

If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please contact us or alternatively by making an indexing request directly with the service.

Journal Statistics

Core journal statistics for the 2020 volume:

Submissions received¹	28
Reviews requested²	41
Reviews received³	30
Total Rejections⁴	27
...of which, Desk rejects⁵	16
Acceptances⁶	7
Acceptance rate⁷	20%
Time from submission to publication⁸	270 days

Definitions
¹Number of new articles received by the journal
²Number of peer review invitation emails that were sent out
³Number of completed peer review reports received
⁴Total number of articles rejected (including desk rejects)
⁵Number of articles rejected prior to peer review
⁶Number of articles that received a 'Accept for publication' decision
⁷Number of acceptances, as a percentage, against the total number of final decisions
⁸'Mean' average from submission to publication for all publications in the volume

Annotation and post-publication comment

The journal platform permits readers to leave comments and in-browser annotations via hypothes.is. Readers will require a hypothes.is account to create annotations, and will have the option to make these public or private. Comments may be moderated by the journal, however, if they are non-offensive and relevant to the publication subject, comments will remain online without edit.

Advertisement policy

The journal does not display adverts.

Sponsors

Metaphysics Collaborative

University of Alberta

University of Victoria