About the Journal

NoSo: Nordisk tidskrift för socioonomastik / Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics is a journal for research studying the role of names in society and in social interaction – that is, a journal of socio-onomastics. The aim of the journal is to bring research within this field to the fore and enable exchange of ideas and critical discussions and to contribute to theoretical and methodological development.

The journal brings together researchers from different disciplines working with socio-onomastic questions. The journal is therefore broad in scope. It includes articles building on all kinds of names, on historical as well as contemporary data, on different methods and on theoretical as well as practical issues. Analyses can also include other kinds of data than names. All research that focuses on developing new knowledge about the role of names in some part of society, at the micro or macro level, is welcome.

Socio-onomastics is a multidisciplinary field of research, in relation both to different branches of linguistics and to other academic disciplines. This journal aims to make this even clearer, enabling researchers from different disciplines to be accommodated in a single space and to be mutually enriching. A multitude of theories, methodologies and data are needed to explain the role of names in society and address name-related societal issues.

NoSo is published by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, with the first volume appearing in 2021. The journal is Nordic in the sense that the research discussed should be of interest from a Nordic point of view. The analysis may be based on Nordic data, it may be written by Nordic researchers who want to reach international readers, or it may be the work of researchers outside the Nordic region who have studied a topic that is relevant to Nordic readers as well. We thus hope to include researchers both inside and outside the Nordic countries who are interested in names and naming. Articles can be written in any of the Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) or in English. Articles written in Scandinavian languages must have an English summary.

PEER REVIEW

All submitted manuscripts are first assessed by an editor who decides whether the manuscript is suitable to be sent for peer review.

Manuscripts deemed suitable for further review are sent to two or more experts who are tasked with highlighting the manuscript's general and specific merits and shortcomings.

The journal uses a double-blind review procedure before acceptance/rejection of manuscripts, which means that authors and reviewers are anonymous throughout the review process.

The review process is expected to take approximately 4 weeks but may vary.

Based on the review, the editor then compiles a recommendation to

a) accept the manuscript for publication

b) ask the author to revise the manuscript or

c) reject the manuscript.

The overall publishing responsibility rests with the journal's editor-in-chief, who has a qualified editorial board for support in various issues regarding the publication of individual manuscripts, the journal's development, etc.

Original articles and overview articles are peer reviewed.

In cases where a manuscript’s author is in some way associated with the editorial team, they will be removed from all editorial tasks for that article. An independent editor will be tasked with organizing the peer-review process. The author's affiliation with the journal will also be indicated in the final publication of the article.

The peer review process is the same for regular and guest-edited issues, with oversight by the journal's editors.

The journal accepts manuscripts that have previously been uploaded for review as preliminary versions, on personal websites, presented at conferences, or made available through other informal communication channels. However, authors must hold copyright for the text in question. Authors are also encouraged, when available, to include links to previous versions of the article in the final version of the article published in the journal.

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

Noso publishes one issue per year.

PUBLICATION FEES

Publishing with Noso is free of charge.

SPONSORS

NoSo is published with financial support from the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture and Högskolan i Halmstad.