About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, with an interdisciplinary character. It aims at contributing critical essays, short articles, text editions, and critical bibliographical reports on intellectual history by focussing on philosophical and scientific texts. Particular attention is devoted to technical and specialised terminology, lexica, and translations. A specific section is open to contributions in the field of Digital Humanities (such as digital scholarly editions, corpora creation, semantic web research).

Peer Review Policy

Lexicon Philosophicum is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal.

In special cases, other types of reviewing processes, such as single-blind peer review, may be allowed upon a reasoned request from the issue editors. Lexicon Philosophicum is committed to experimenting with various types of open peer review, the forms and uses of which will be described in each case.

All article manuscripts that pass the initial eligibility and quality check by the editor will be subject to peer review (before 2019, articles in the “Invited” section could be subject to a simpler editorial review. This section is no longer in use).

Papers submitted for the “Notes and Discussions” section may be peer-reviewed at the discretion of the editor. Papers that have undergone peer review will be designated as such on their landing pages on the journal’s website.

Each manuscript will be reviewed by two experts on the paper’s subject matter. No more than one member of the editorial staff may serve as a reviewer for a paper, provided that they have a clear and recognised expertise in the field.

Reviewers are asked to adhere to our Code of Ethics and are not permitted to make use of AI tools, as per our AI policy statement.

Peer Review Process

Upon submission, each paper is assigned to an Editor from the journal editorial team.

The Peer Review process starts with general eligibility and quality checks by the Editor.

Eligible papers will proceed to the peer review stage, in which the Editor will invite two independent reviewers with appropriate and recognised expertise to evaluate the paper. The identity of the reviewers and the authors is kept confidential from each other. In any case of strong disagreement between the two reviewers, the editor might ask the opinion of a third reviewer.

The Editors’ decision is made based on these reviewer reports, which are made available to the authors upon decision.

This process typically takes in the range of 2-4 months. Authors will be notified of one of the following decisions:

• Accept as-is: the paper will move directly to the copyedit stage.
• Accept pending revisions: The submission is accepted for publication, with minor revisions based on the reviewers' feedback.
• Revise and resubmit. The submission has potential but needs revision based on the reviewers’ feedback. Resubmissions will be sent out for a fresh review, and will, in most cases, be reviewed by one of the original reviewers. If necessary, further revisions may be requested until the article is suitable for publication.
• Decline: The submission is declined as unsuitable for the journal.

In the following editing stage, our copyeditors will check the adherence of the paper to the journal's editorial guidelines. In case of major discrepancies, the author might be asked to edit their paper. This process usually takes 1 to 2 weeks.

All the papers that have successfully completed the review process will be published in the next available issue of the journal.

Open Access Policy, Copyright and Licensing

Lexicon Philosophicum provides free and immediate open access to its contents.

Authors retain copyright and grant Lexicon Philosophicum right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA)

The license allows others to copy, adapt, and redistribute the work under the same license as the original, with attribution to the authors of the work and to the original publication in this Journal.

Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published by the Journal (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this Journal.

Publication in the journal is free of charge. The journal requires no APCs (Article Processing Charges) or other hidden costs from the authors.

Archiving and Self-archiving

Lexicon Philosophicum has electronic backup and preservation of access to the content of its journals via PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). This can be seen at the Publisher Manifesto.

We encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscripts in institutional repositories or on their websites prior to and during the submission process ,and to post the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version after publication without embargo. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citations of published work.

Code of Ethics of the Journal

Legal Information

Periodico iscritto al n. 216/2013 del Registro della Stampa del Tribunale Civile di Roma. Direttore responsabile: Antonio Lamarra - Condirettore: Enrico Pasini

Sources of Support

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee

Sapienza Università di Roma - Dipartimento di Filosofia

Journal History

Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas is an editorial initiative of the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (CNR-ILIESI). The journal is the result of a previous experience and a new opportunity. Since 1985 the ILIESI has published under the title Lexicon Philosophicum twelve volumes in the form of ‘notebooks’ (Quaderni), which appeared in the series “Lessico Intellettuale Europeo” of the Olschki publishing house. The initial editors were Antonio Lamarra and Lidia Procesi, followed by Antonio Lamarra and Roberto Palaia. These volumes were miscellaneous books mostly oriented to the outcome of research and studies developed within the institute. Their focus was the history of philosophical terminology as a privileged access to the history of ideas.