Open AccessAnthropoetics has always straddled disciplinary frontiers. For over thirty years the journal was supported by the UCLA Humanities Division. The Library of Congress assigns Anthropoetics to LCC class GN (Anthropology) and Dewey class 301 (Sociology and Anthropology). These classifications reflect the journal’s commitment to fundamental reflection on the human across disciplinary boundaries.
Scope and Focus
Anthropoetics publishes articles relevant to generative anthropology, the mimetic theory of desire, and work in the humanities or human sciences that involves fundamental reflection on the human. Although the journal’s research program is focused on these areas, the editorial board is widely international and represents a variety of disciplines and subject areas.
Articles need not express agreement with the ideas or methods of generative anthropology nor make them their chief focus, but submissions that do not engage in any way with these ideas and methods cannot be considered.
For submission guidelines, word limits, formatting requirements, and instructions on how to submit, see the Submissions page.
Review Process
All regular submissions undergo rigorous editorial review by members of the Anthropoetics editorial board. Manuscripts that require specialized field knowledge will be subject to external double-blind peer review. Editor-reviewers do not review papers by authors from their own institution. As a general rule, no more than two-thirds of the authors published in a given issue will be from a single institution.
Anthropoetics also accepts articles developed from papers given at the annual GASC. Conference papers are first reviewed by the organizing committee of the conference before entering the standard editorial process.
Publication Ethics
Anthropoetics is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and follows the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) at publicationethics.org.
Authorship. Authorship should reflect genuine intellectual contribution to the work. Authors submitting on behalf of multiple contributors are responsible for ensuring that all named authors have approved the final manuscript and agree to its submission to Anthropoetics.
Conflicts of interest. Authors should disclose any financial, institutional, or personal relationships that might be perceived as influencing their work. Editor-reviewers recuse themselves from evaluating submissions by authors from their own institution.
Plagiarism and originality. Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s). Text, arguments, or findings drawn from other sources must be properly attributed. Anthropoetics does not consider manuscripts that have been previously published in substantially the same form, or that are simultaneously under review at another journal.
Corrections and retractions. If a published article is found to contain a significant error, Anthropoetics will work with the author to issue a correction or, in cases of serious misconduct, a retraction. Corrections are noted in the published HTML and PDF versions of the article.
Allegations of misconduct. Concerns about the conduct of authors, reviewers, or editors may be directed to the editors at editors@anthropoetics.org. Anthropoetics takes such concerns seriously and will respond in accordance with COPE guidelines.
Artificial intelligence. The use of AI tools in scholarly work is a rapidly evolving area of practice. Authors who use AI-assisted writing or research tools in preparing their manuscripts are expected to disclose this in their submission. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of all submitted work; AI tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors. Anthropoetics follows COPE guidance on AI in publication and will update this policy as standards develop.
Accessibility and Discoverability
Anthropoetics has published in HTML since its founding in 1995 — a format that is inherently more accessible to assistive technologies than print-derived alternatives. Articles are also available as PDFs, which serve as the version of record for citation purposes.
Assistive technology. Authors are asked to provide alternate text descriptions for all figures submitted with their manuscripts (see Submissions). HTML articles are structured with semantic markup to support screen readers and other assistive tools.
Persistent identification. Anthropoetics is registered as an international serial (ISSN 1083-7264), and it is catalogued by the Library of Congress . Each article carries a stable URL that has been maintained continuously since publication.
Indexing and abstracting. Anthropoetics is listed in several indexing services. For a current list, see the Indexing page.
Long-term availability. The journal’s full archive, from volume I (1995) to the present, is available without restriction at anthropoetics.org. The complete run of Anthropoetics has been archived as part of the Library of Congress Open Serials preservation program, which makes back issues available through the national library following a one-year embargo. Anthropoetics has also participated continuously in the Copyright Office’s electronic serials deposit program. Both programs are ongoing. Anthropoetics was among the earliest journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and remains committed to the standards of open-access publishing that DOAJ represents.