Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our Collections. Collections at HSS Comms provide a high-profile venue for topics of substantial interest to the community. Papers included in a Collection are published in the journal and featured on our Collection page.

  • Crises of the 21st century

    This collection explores perspectives on specific crises of the 21st century as well as potential future threats.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 February 2025

    • Interrogating postmodernism

      This collection interrogates the unstable and mutable term of postmodernism, and how it relates to other concepts and phenomena.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 October 2024

      • Replication and replicability

        This collection sets out to consider ‘replication’ and ‘replicability’ (and related concepts) specifically in the context of the social sciences and humanities.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 August 2024

        • Technology and learning

          This cross-journal collection welcomes submissions on the topic of technology and learning, that investigate for instance digital literacy, the promise and challenge of adaptive technology, the role and effect of digital tools, social media, and artificial intelligence in learning.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 06 August 2024

          • Theorising and implementing smart healthy age-friendly environments

            This Collection welcomes research on smart healthy age-friendly environments, including adapting cities and communities to the needs of older adults.
            • Agnieszka Cieśla, PhD.
            • Delali A. Dovie, PhD.
            • Jorge Felix, PhD.
            • Andrzej Klimczuk, PhD.
            • Vitalii Nitsenko, PhD.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 July 2024

          • Behavioural public policy

            This collection invites original research addressing key issues and debates in the epistemology, semantics and empirics of behavioural public policy.
            • Dr. Sanchayan Banerjee, PhD, FHEA
            • Prof. Michalis Drouvelis, PhD
            • Dr. Laura Zimmermann, PhD
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 June 2024