Editorial Review Process

Journal selection criteria

To have your journal considered for inclusion in our archival collections, please fill out and submit the form linked below. Please note that we receive many requests to include more journals on JSTOR, and are adding a very limited number of journals at this time. We will be in touch only if we can include your publication.

Among the criteria we consider when selecting journals are historical significance of the title, citation analysis, and relevance to a scholarly audience.

We begin by evaluating the journal’s content and scope, its audience, its editors and/or editorial board, and its review process. We also take other factors into consideration, including:

• Publication history, including age, previous titles, and any notable changes across the journal’s existence, such as frequency, scope of content, publisher, or editorial staff
• Number of institutional subscribers
• Inclusion in indices of scholarly significance
• Connections to a scholarly organization, school or department, or government branch
• Citation or ranking data, when applicable, such as an ISI rank for the sciences, or any other quantitative measure that may help us determine the journal’s influence in its field
• The journal’s primary language, and any other languages used in the publication
• Accolades and recommendations from our community at large and scholarly organizations
• Highlights, such as seminal works that originally appeared in the journal and notable contributors
• Publications the publisher considers to be the journal’s peers, i.e., to which journals might a scholar looking to publish also have submitted their work?

Content submission form

To have your content considered for inclusion in our collections, please fill out and submit our Content Submission Form.