As the first post in this series noted, most of the GS-based authors in my sample article set elected to publish in open access journals that do not charge publication fees (so-called "diamond" OA journals). The diamond journal landscape is extremely diverse and quite sizeable, dominating the OA titles indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) -- as of this writing, 12,292 out of a total of 17,478 do not charge APCs.
In my study, the 153 articles that fell in this OA category were published in 87 different journals; 48 of these are not even indexed in DOAJ, which suggests that the overall number of diamond journals in existence is even more vast (see also Coalition S, March 2021).
Many of these journals also happen to be published in the Global South (60% of my sample), very often by academic institutions and other non-profit entities. But since they are generally not indexed in the main citation databases like Web of Science and Scopus, they -- like their authors -- tend to lack visibility in the Global North (Tennant, 2020).
To help ameliorate this reality, GN authors can, among other things, provide support to and show solidarity with GS journals by both citing their articles and also publishing in them, as these recent blog posts recommend:
- Less ‘Prestigious’ Journals Can Contain More Diverse Research, by Citing Them We Can Shape a More Just Politics of Citation (LSE Impact Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]
- Publish in the Global South: A Call for Rebellion (OpinioJuris Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]
These global/regional resources are useful starting points for identifying relevant journals/journal articles:
African Journals Online (AJOL) [access]
- Hosts over 290 open access journals published in Africa. A list of publisher countries is available here.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) [access]
- For example: enter "migration" in the "Journals" search box, then limit the results by "publisher country"
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) [access]
- Hosts over 1800 open access journals published in the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain & Uruguay; journal contributions from Venezuela and the West Indies are in development.
Here are a few examples of forced migration-specific journals published in the Global South:
African Human Mobility Review (published by the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa & University of the Western Cape, in South Africa)
- Here is the most recent issue.
- Accepts submissions in English.
Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration (published by the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, in India)
- The current issue is a special issue on "Displacements & Dispossessions."
- Accepts submissions in English.
REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (published by the Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios, in Brazil)
- The most recent issue features articles focusing on "Migrants, refugees, and displaced persons in the Middle East and North Africa."
- Accepts submissions in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish or French. See their CFP for two thematic dossiers in forthcoming issues.
Revue Hijra: La revue marocaine de droit d’asile et migration (published by La Clinique Juridique Hijra, in Morocco)
- The latest issue features articles from the RLI blog series on the Global Compact for Migration that were translated into French.
- Publishes submissions in French, Arabic, English and Spanish.
You can locate additional titles in my monthly round-ups of scholarly literature published by GS authors.
References:
- cOAlition S & Science Europe, The OA Diamond Journals Study: Exploring Collaborative Community-driven Publishing Models for Open Access (cOAlition S, March 2021)
- Jonathan P. Tennant, "Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge," European Science Editing, 46: e51987
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