Journal profile
Serendipities
ISSN 2521-0947 · Royal Danish Library · Denmark
Serendipities: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 3 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Serendipities is published by Royal Danish Library. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, German Social Sciences and History and Political Science Research and Education, together about 45.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Serendipities publishes three kinds of texts: Articles reporting research results, developing theoretical arguments, or – at best – offering a combination of both. An article has to be concerned with the sociology and history of the social sciences and should demonstrate how it adds to our knowledge. This is best achieved when it is positioned in relation to the relevant literature from the field. Book reviews presenting and assessing new publications relevant to the subject matter of the journal. There is no restriction with regard to the language of the reviewed publication. Moreover, it is the explicit aim of the editors that this section will function both as a forum for critical evaluation of new books and as a platform for those who are not able to read them in their original language. A third kind of text are various forms of research materials. These may be archival materials, i.e., items from the past that are deemed valuable enough to be made visible to the scientific community (e.g. letters, unpublished manuscripts, administrative documents etc.). These should be presented with short commentaries on the significance of the documents. Alternatively, using some of the functionalities offered by digitalisation, such materials might be contemporary reconstructions of past situations (e.g., visualizations), data sets, or similar. Furthermore, Serendipities makes use of some of the more adventurous features of the Web by encouraging discussions online. We are open to a wide range of methods and genres, including: - empirical case studies and broader historical analysis - theoretical and conceptual reflections - comparative, transnational, and transregional investigations - prosopographic and sociometric approaches - interviews with scholars - translations of overlooked texts - debates on timely issues We are also open to a wide range of topics, including: - the circulation of social science ideas, concepts, practices, projects, and practitioners across national, disciplinary, and epistemological boundaries - the evolution and transformation of research methods, theories, frameworks, paradigms, and techniques - the relationship between knowledge and power - the role of funding agencies and policy in shaping knowledge and its social uses - boundary work between and within the social science disciplines, and boundary work between the social sciences and other broad spheres of knowledge making including the natural sciences and the humanities - interdisci
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Austria 3, Hong Kong, China 1, United Kingdom 1, France 1, Italy 1 (16 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and PracticeSocial Sciences24.4%
- German Social Sciences and HistorySocial Sciences14.6%
- Political Science Research and EducationSocial Sciences6.2%
- Legal and Social PhilosophySocial Sciences6.2%
- Biographical and Historical AnalysisArts and Humanities4.4%
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in PsychologyPsychology4%
- Twentieth Century Scientific DevelopmentsArts and Humanities3.6%
- Social Science and Policy ResearchSocial Sciences3.6%
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
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.3OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 122 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 2024 | 17 | 17 | 16 |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 | 29 |
| 2022 | 12 | 12 | 23 |
| 2021 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
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 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Editorial 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)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 7,000 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use AI Policy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage has become common practice among many researchers and authors. Serendipities acknowledges the benefits of AI in ensuring high standards of writing, particularly for authors publishing in English who have English as a second language,. Nevertheless, AI has many dangers, including the possibility of 'hallucinations', which are false or incorrect instances of inform…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Model summary
With the publication of Vol. 6 (2021), the author(s) retain(s) copyright to the article and give Serendipities the right to the first publication. Before that date, copyright was held by the Journal. Since the beginning of the journal in 2016, articles have been licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This license allows sharing the article for non-commercial purposes, as long…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
The editors are keen to try new ways of publishing. Many of the established scholarly journals are associated with large enterprises making money from the distribution of ideas funded mostly by taxpayers. Subscription fees have became prohibitive in some branches of scholarship and even in the social sciences, and as a consequence, the free floating of ideas is hindered by the rising prices of sub…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
All research articles under consideration for publication in Serendipities are subject to a double-blind peer review process. Each article receives a minimum of two reviews that, together with an editor’s decision letter, will be returned to author(s) usually within two-to-three months after receipt of the manuscript.
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
- Royal Danish Library
- Country or region
- Denmark
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2521-0947
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 10, Issue 1-2 (2025)
- 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 Serendipities
How long does peer review take at Serendipities?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Serendipities?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 7,000 words; Reference style: Author–date; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Serendipities based?
Of the 16 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Austria (3), Hong Kong, China (1) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Serendipities?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Serendipities is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Serendipities open access, and what is the APC?
Serendipities 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .