Orbis Idearum

Aims & Scope

It is edited and published by the History of Ideas Research Centre and the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University.

Founded in 2013 by Prof.

Michel Kowalewicz, the journal was initially funded by the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.

Orbis Idearum has an international and interdisciplinary scope, as testified to by its Editorial board and Scientific Committee.

It is open access and free of charge for authors and readers.

Full issues and single articles are published online on this journal's website.

Prior to submitting a manuscript for peer review, authors are required to register with the journal and they are invited to review the journal’s Ethical Code and Editorial Norms.

Articles should be crafted using the Publishing templates provided by the editors on this journal.

The history of ideas can be understood as a discipline with its own methodology and field of inquiry, or as an umbrella discipline that encompasses the histories of specific types of knowledge, such as philosophy, social science, natural science, religion, literature, etc.

Typically, the focus of the history ideas is the historical trajectory of a term-and-concept or a theory.

Researchers may reconstruct the vicissitudes of intradisciplinary ideas (sociological, philosophical, political, etc.) or of ideas crossing disciplines or appearing in different forms of literature (scientific articles, books, manuscripts, private letters, novels, etc.).

It must be clear, however, that this is just a general orientation.

There are different traditions and schools of thought in the history of ideas.

The editors and reviewers of Orbis Idearum are not “fundamentalist” about research approaches.

However, they do require methodological awareness from the authors.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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