Journal Policies

Copyright and Licensing

Authors contributing to Kulturella Perspektiv agree to publish their articles under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, for any purpose, even commercially, under the condition that appropriate credit is given, that a link to the license is provided, and that you indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Authors retain copyright of their work.

Authorship criteria

Each of the manuscript’s authors should meet all three of the following criteria: 1.) has made a substantial contribution to the design of the study, the collection of empirical material or the analysis or interpretation of the empirical material; 2.) has drafted the manuscript or helped revise it, shaping its intellectual content; 3.) has approved of the submitted manuscript. Each author should be able to take public responsibility for a portion of the article’s content, and should be able to identify the co-authors who are responsible for the remaining content. Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, transcribed interviews, offered writing assistance or editing, led the research project or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should be acknowledged in a section called Funding, which follows the acknowledgements. Kulturella Perspektiv follows the guidelines and criteria for good research conduct with regards to review, editing and authorship, as formulated in the European code of conduct for research integrity. 

Preprint Policy

The journal allows authors to deposit draft versions of their paper into a suitable preprint server, on condition that the author agrees to the below: 

  • The author retains copyright to the preprint and developed works from it, and is permitted to submit to the journal. 
  • The author declares that a preprint is available within the cover letter presented during submission. This must include a link to the location of the preprint. 
  • The author acknowledges that having a preprint publicly available means that the journal cannot guarantee the anonymity of the author during the review process, even if they anonymize the submitted files (see review policy). 
  • Should the submission be published, the authors are expected to update the information associated with the preprint version to show that a final version has been published in the journal, including the DOI linking directly to the publication. 

ORCID

The journal strongly recommends that all authors submitting a paper register an account with Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID). Registration provides a unique and persistent digital identifier for the account that enables accurate attribution and improves the discoverability of published papers, ensuring that the correct author receives the correct credit for their work. As the ORCID remains the same throughout the lifetime of the account, changes of name, affiliation, or research area do not affect the discoverability of an author's past work and aids correspondence with colleagues. 

The journal encourages all corresponding authors to include an ORCID within their submitting author data while co-authors are recommended to include one. ORCID numbers should be added to the author data upon submission and will be published alongside the submitted paper, should it be accepted. 

Open data

As requirements for Open Data are becoming increasingly common, some authors may wish or be required to make their data openly available. In the cases where this is relevant for the journal’s authors, Kulturella Perspektiv encourages authors to do so according to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). In this case, this should be linked to a Data Accessibility Statement within the submitted paper, which will be made public upon publication. Data obtained from other sources must be appropriately credited. For further questions about Open Data policy and guidelines please confer with your academic institution.