Journal profile
Southern Spaces
ISSN 1551-2754 · Emory Center for Digital Scholarship · United States
Southern Spaces: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 53 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Southern Spaces is published by Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Race, History, and American Society, American Environmental and Regional History and Photographic and Visual Arts, together about 35.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open access journal published by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. We publish articles, photo essays and images, reviews, interviews, presentations, short videos, and monographs about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections. We intend our audience to be researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, and general readers. Southern Spaces publishes work in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines that represents and analyzes many souths and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars, photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography; southern studies; critical regional studies; African American, Indigenous, and American studies; women's and gender studies; LGBTQ studies, public health; and social justice. A digital publication, Southern Spaces provides an open access site for innovative scholarship by taking advantage of the Internet's capabilities to deliver audio, video, images, text, and data to facilitate new ways of organizing and presenting research. Southern Spaces archives its publication materials as a unit of the Emory Libraries and Museums and is committed to providing a stable digital presence for content. Operational costs are funded by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. The editorial staff as well as members of the editorial board oversee a rigorous peer review process for articles. There is no cost to submit to or publish in Southern Spaces. Authors retain copyright of the content they produce with limited rights granted to Southern Spaces. The journal is freely available online. The opinions expressed in Southern Spaces are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of Emory University or of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. ISSN 1551-2754
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Race, History, and American SocietySocial Sciences18.1%
- American Environmental and Regional HistoryEnvironmental Science9%
- Photographic and Visual ArtsArts and Humanities8.8%
- Colonialism, slavery, and tradeSocial Sciences6.2%
- American Literature and CultureArts and Humanities6.2%
- Memory, Trauma, and CommemorationPsychology3.8%
- Music History and CultureArts and Humanities3.7%
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences3.7%
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
- 13OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 684 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 81 |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 | 87 |
| 2022 | 15 | 15 | 49 |
| 2021 | 23 | 23 | 92 |
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 53 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 53 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, CC BY-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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 accepted11, with length limits
- articlesArticles are argument-driven, interpretive, or critical pieces that are the result of sustained scholarly engagement with a topic.Length not stated
- blog postsBlog posts are non-peer-reviewed publications that consist of topical and timely pieces of commentary and/or descriptions of websites, exhibitions, or events th…Length not stated
- educational resourcesEducational ResourcesLength not stated
- interviewsInterviews are video-recorded or transcribed, edited conversations with scholars, authors, artists, and other cultural producers studying aspects of space and p…Length not stated
- monographsLonger than articles, monographs feature multimedia and digital elements and offer extensive analysis, critical interpretation, or an extended argument.Length not stated
- photo and media essaysPhoto essays curate collections of original photography or other multimedia to perform the same kinds of critical work articles do: to analyze real and imagined…Length not stated
- photo essaysPhoto EssaysLength not stated
- presentationsPresentations include the media associated with the public presentations of scholarly work. Such presentations include lectures, conference papers and panels, a…Length not stated
- reviewphies or artistic/aesthetic traditions. Reviews published in Southern Spaces are typically 1000–2000 words in length, but we also consider longer review essays.…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- reviewsReviews are critical evaluations of recently published books, film and video productions, digital projects, music, events, and other art or scholarship that rel…Length not stated
- videosVideos use visual—as opposed to textual or rhetorical—techniques to advance a critical argument or offer a narrative.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteConflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Preprints
- Conflicts of interest
Conflicts of interest handled to ensure unbiased review. Model summary
Regarding conflicts of interest, the editor will ensure an unbiased review process for submissions from themselves, other colleagues, and members of the editorial board.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Originality, no plagiarism, no falsification or misattribution. Model summary
By submitting a piece to Southern Spaces, authors affirm that their work is original. Southern Spaces does not publish previously published work or pieces that are under consideration elsewhere. The journal does not publish work that has been falsified or misattributed in any way, including an author’s failure to cite their own work properly.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Authors retain copyright; non-exclusive right to publish granted to journal; CC licenses optional. Model summary
Contributors published in Southern Spaces retain the copyright of their work. At the time of publication, authors provide Southern Spaces with a non-exclusive right to publish and may also select one of the Creative Commons licenses listed below.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Double-anonymized peer review with at least two external reviewers for articles and digital projects. Model summary
Our peer review process is designed to provide assurance to readers and authors that all scholarship published in Southern Spaces has attained a standard of excellence, as judged by researchers who have expert knowledge in the pertinent field. All Southern Spaces articles, as well as many photo and media essays, pass through a rigorous peer review after an internal review among editorial staff and…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
No previously published work or simultaneous submissions. Model summary
The journal does not consider previously published work or simultaneous submissions.
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
- Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1551-2754
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- 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
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Southern Spaces
How long does peer review take at Southern Spaces?
Authors report an average review time of about 53 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 Southern Spaces?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Southern Spaces is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Southern Spaces open access, and what is the APC?
Southern Spaces 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: .