Island Studies Journal (ISSN: 1715-2593)

Island Studies Journal (ISJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of islands, archipelagos, and the waters that surround and connect them. ISJ encourages cross-disciplinarity for the sake of providing more comprehensive and holistic assessments of the conditions and issues impacting on islands and island life.  All articles published in ISJ are rigorously peer-reviewed.

ISJ’s institutional home is Fróðskaparsetur Føroya/University of the Faroe Islands. ISJ is indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, and Current Contents Connect/ Social and Behavioural Sciences). ISJ is committed to the principles of open access (OA), as outlined in the IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation. Open access benefits researchers and learners by equalizing access to research information and facilitating scholarly communication.

Editor-in-Chief: Adam Grydehøj.

Latest issue: Island Studies Journal, Volume 18, Issue 1, May 2023

Consisting of 16 research papers on islands from around the world. Featuring a thematic section on ‘Policing and justice in island communities’ (Editors: Wendell C. Wallace & Malisa Neptune-Figaro).

Thematic section calls for papers