About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The focus of Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory lies at the intersection of scientific and philosophical theorizing in the field of politics and social practice.
Science and Society aspires to promote in-depth, engaged scholarly research alongside interdisciplinarity, impartiality, critical spirit, and methodological innovation. It invites contributions from a wide and diverse community of researchers, from experienced academics as well as younger scholars.
Science and Society seeks to provide a forum of critical academic dialogue enriching the public sphere and civil society in their national and global dimensions. In this respect, the journal welcomes manuscripts and short commentaries in the Greek or English language, spanning a wide range political and social issues, political communication and media, moral theory, political sociology, political economy, political and social psychology, and cultural studies. Book reviews and review essays are also welcomed.
Peer Review Process
Science and Society follows a double-blind review process which ensures the ethical treatment of all submissions. Normally, two Reviewers are invited to comment on a manuscript, but a third Reviewer can be invited if the original reviews provide disagreeing assessments.
For all submissions, Editors provide the Author with an explanation of the editorial decision that integrates reviewer comments and offers additional suggestions.
The Journal follows a strict confidentiality policy. Editors shall not disclose information about a manuscript to anyone other than Reviewers and Authors.
The Editors assess manuscripts on the basis of their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Publication Frequency
Science and Society is published twice a year.
ePublisher
The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.
EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.
EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.
EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.
