Journal profile
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
ISSN 2515-6411 · Manchester University Press · United Kingdom
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 33 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is published by Manchester University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics, Peacebuilding and International Security and Migration and Exile Studies, together about 44.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is an exciting, new open access journal hosted jointly by The Humanitarian Affairs Team at Save the Children UK, and Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires MSF (Paris) and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. It will contribute to current thinking around humanitarian governance, policy and practice with academic rigour and political courage. The journal will challenge contributors and readers to think critically about humanitarian issues that are often approached from reductionist assumptions about what experience and evidence mean. It will cover contemporary, historical, methodological and applied subject matters and will bring together studies, debates and literature reviews. The journal will engage with these through diverse online content, including peer reviewed articles, expert interviews, policy analyses, literature reviews and ‘spotlight’ features. Our rationale can be summed up as follows: the sector is growing and is facing severe ethical and practical challenges. The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs will provide a space for serious and inter-disciplinary academic and practitioner exchanges on pressing issues of international interest. The journal aims to be a home and platform for leading thinkers on humanitarian affairs, a place where ideas are floated, controversies are aired and new research is published and scrutinised. Areas in which submissions will be considered include humanitarian financing, migrations and responses, the history of humanitarian aid, failed humanitarian interventions, media representations of humanitarianism, the changing landscape of humanitarianism, the response of states to foreign interventions and critical debates on concepts such as resilience or security.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Historical and Contemporary Political DynamicsArts and Humanities19.9%
- Peacebuilding and International SecuritySocial Sciences13.1%
- Migration and Exile StudiesSocial Sciences11.9%
- Health and Conflict StudiesHealth Professions6.7%
- Migration, Racism, and Human RightsSocial Sciences6.4%
- Disaster Management and ResilienceSocial Sciences5.5%
- Gender, Security, and ConflictSocial Sciences5.5%
- Global Peace and Security DynamicsSocial Sciences4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 15OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 22OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.6OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 150 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 137 |
| 2025 | 33 | 33 | 156 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 134 |
| 2023 | 20 | 20 | 93 |
| 2022 | 15 | 15 | 88 |
| 2021 | 23 | 23 | 59 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted9, with length limits
- case studyResearch article (6,000-8,000 words, including abstract and bibliography) Original research articles are encouraged on any aspect of humanitarianism, encompassi…Length not stated
- field reportField report (max. 3,500 words, plus abstract and bibliography)Length not stated
- op-edOp-ed (max. 1,000 words, plus abstract and bibliography)Length not stated
- opinionResearch article (6,000-8,000 words, including abstract and bibliography) Original research articles are encouraged on any aspect of humanitarianism, encompassi…Length not stated
- original researchResearch article (6,000-8,000 words, including abstract and bibliography) Original research articles are encouraged on any aspect of humanitarianism, encompassi…Length not stated
- original research articleResearch article (6,000-8,000 words, including abstract and bibliography) Original research articles are encouraged on any aspect of humanitarianism, encompassi…Length not stated
- perspectiveResearch article (6,000-8,000 words, including abstract and bibliography) Original research articles are encouraged on any aspect of humanitarianism, encompassi…Length not stated
- research articleResearch article (6,000-8,000 words, including abstract and bibliography) Original research articles are encouraged on any aspect of humanitarianism, encompassi…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- review articleReview article (max. 4,000 words, plus abstract and bibliography)Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use AI policy
In line with the broader MUP AI policy, the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs does not accept submissions that have been generated, wholly or in part, by means of Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT) or other AI tools. The use of AI and other tools for copy-editing of existing text (e.g. to improve readability and style, to ensure that the texts are free of errors in grammar, spelling and punctuatio…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright notice
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND), which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. The work may not be remixed, transformed or built upon and any reuse o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access policy
Open Access policy Model summary
The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is a fully Open Access journal. No fee is payable by the author or their institution to submit or publish in the journal. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Alternative Creative Commons licences can be used, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review process
Double-blind peer review by two reviewers. Model summary
Submissions to the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs will undergo a blind peer review process by two reviewers. We rely on experts for candid but fair advice in our review process. We operate a 'double-blind' refereeing process whereby author(s) and reviewers never know each other’s identities.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2515-6411
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
How long does peer review take at Journal of Humanitarian Affairs?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Journal of Humanitarian Affairs?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Journal of Humanitarian Affairs open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .