
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 16, Issue 2, November 2021
Consisting of 19 research papers on islands from around the world. Featuring a thematic section on ‘Representing islands – producing islandness: Rethinking identities, mobilities, and relations in island research’ (Editors: Sarah Nimführ & Greca N. Meloni).
Thematic section calls for papers
- Islands in speculative fiction: The functions of islands in science-fiction, fantasy, and horror film and writing, ISJ 19(1), May 2024. Editors: Yuqin Jiang, Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, & Mingying Zhou.
- Island ecologies and the built environment: Interactions, planning, and protection, ISJ 18(1), May 2023. Editors: Huan Zhang & Adam Grydehøj
- Policing and justice in island communities, ISJ 18(1), May 2023. Editors: Wendell C. Wallace & Malisa Neptune-Figaro
- Taking a stand in island studies: Challenging processes of exclusion, appropriation, and displacement, ISJ, 18(2), November 2023. Editors: Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Yaso Nadarajah, & Elena Burgos Martinez
- Utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature, ISJ 17(2), November 2022. Editors: Ping Su & Mingwen Xiao