Call for Articles
The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community to make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries, publishing in English and Spanish. The journal is defined by our Research Network scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
We are working to change the way in which knowledge is produced, validated, and shared within member-based Research Networks.
We take research integrity seriously, following standards and best practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We’re also active members of key industry associations: Association of American Publishers, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, The Society for Scholarly Publishing, and Crossref.
We are committed to expanding the visibility, reach, and impact of research from The Image Research Network. Journals in The Image Research Network can be found in numerous databases, accessible via the libraries of institutional subscribers, and in the CGScholar Bookstore for current Research Network Members
Decisions of what is published come from reviewers that are Members of the Research Network ensuring the knowledge is validated in horizontal social knowledge relations. Review scores are based on a clearly articulated rubric, and the result is a peer-review process that is scrupulously fair in its assessments while at the same time offering carefully structured and constructive feedback that enhances the quality of the published article.
A publishing process that is without prejudice to institutional affiliation, stage in career, national origins, or disciplinary perspectives. If the article is excellent, and has been systematically and independently assessed as such, it will be published.
Authors and reviewers, as Research Network members, gain subscriber access to the journal collection ensuring that the product of their labor is also accessible to them.
We fully support the general principles of open and accessible research and seek to work collaboratively with all stakeholders in this time of disruptive change. We offer a variety of Open Access options to make your research accessible and make accessibility affordable.
You can submit your article at any time throughout the year. The rolling submission deadlines, corresponding with the publication of journal issues, are as follows:
| Submission Round 1 | 15 January | |
| Submission Round 2 | 15 April | |
| Submission Round 3 | 15 July | |
| Submission Round 4 | 15 October |
You can submit a manuscript and complete its peer review at no cost. After peer review, you’ll be notified that your work has entered the Rights Agreement phase, where you’ll select an appropriate contract.
We are a purpose-driven, member-based scholarly community. Annual Membership* to the Research Network includes 30,000 Points for use in the Rights Agreement phase towards publication fees.
Points do not expire, and you can have multiple Memberships across different Research Networks. This allows for accumulating enough points to cover any type of Rights Agreement.
+ Green Open Access
Green Open Access
| Member | + Green Open Access | Included |
| Non-Member | + Green Open Access | $300 USD |
(CC-BY-NC-ND)
Open Access (CC BY-NC-ND)
| Member | (CC BY-NC-ND) | $225 USD ** |
| Non-Member | (CC BY-NC-ND) | $525 USD |
(CC-BY)
Gold Open Access (CC-BY)
| Member | (CC-BY) | $425 USD ** |
| Non-Member | (CC-BY) | $725 USD |
Use the buttons below to submit your manuscript for review to the journal.
Or you can use the generic portal in CGPublisher, the journal management tool used by our Research Network, to submit. If you do, select this Research Network and your desired journal in Article Basics.
Utilice los siguientes botones para enviar su artículo para revisión a una de las revistas de la colección.
También puede usar el portal genérico en CGPublisher, la herramienta de gestión de revistas utilizada por nuestra red de investigación, para enviarlo. Si opta por esta opción, seleccione esta Red de Investigación y la revista a la que desea enviar su artículo.