About the Journal

OIKOS: Lithuanian Migration and Diaspora Studies

ISSN 1822-5152
eISSN 2351-6461

About the Journal. Since 2006 the Lithuanian Emigration Institute has been publishing a scholarly journal called Oikos(from the Greek word meaning home) devoted to discussing contemporary migration processes involving Lithuania and other countries, the migration policies, problems of diaspora history and culture. The journal publishes original scholarly research and review articles, critical notices, and archival documents. In order to foster interdisciplinary research, it also publishes the results of scholarly research in sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history of literature, theater studies, history of migration policy, history of the diaspora, and related disciplines.

The Journal follows the guidance from the Commission on Publication Ethics(Committee on Publication Ethics: ) in its policy and observes all the standards of academic integrity in the process of submission, reviewing and publishing. Editors, authors and reviewers comply with the standards of academic ethics.

Issued since 2006.

Publication frequency. A total of 2 volumes are released per year.

Languages. The journal publishes articles in Lithuanian and English.

Peer-Review. The manuscript is submitted to two independent reviewers, to the specialists in the field assisting the Editorial board. The reviewers are selected confidentially and perform a double-blind peer review. In the event of diverging opinions (one has a positive opinion, the other has negative), the third reviewer is appointed. The reviewers of the manuscript do not know the identity of the author(s) and the author(s) do not know the identity of the reviewers.

“Oikos” is peer-reviewed and included in EBSCO databases at http://www.ebscohost.com/.
The journal does not charge article processing charges or submission charges.

Journal Archive. In the publishing platforms:
https://iseivijosinstitutas.lt/en/scientific-journal-oikos/ and Vytautas Magnus University Research Management System (VDU CRIS) database of the publications.