About the Journal

Focus and Purpose

Ecosystem Intelligence is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of how intelligence emerges, evolves, and operates across complex interconnected ecosystems of systems. The journal publishes research on distributed, emergent, and coordinated intelligence arising from interactions among technologies, infrastructures, data systems, organizations, institutions, and human actors.

Target Group

The journal addresses researchers, scholars, and advanced practitioners working in systems engineering, artificial intelligence, informatics, complex systems science, cyber-physical systems, infrastructure studies, socio-technical systems, organizational studies, and related interdisciplinary fields.

History

Ecosystem Intelligence was founded in 2026 at the University of Southern Denmark, initiated by researchers at the SDU Center for Energy Informatics. The journal was established to address the growing need for a dedicated scholarly venue focusing on intelligence emerging at the ecosystem level, hosted by the Royal Danish Library on tidsskrift.dk.

Frequency of Publication

The journal publishes on a continuous basis (articles are published as soon as they are ready) and is organized into annual volumes. In its first two years, the journal aims to publish 1–2 issues per year, with 4–6 articles per issue. Publication frequency will increase as the field and community grow.

Editorial Process

All submissions undergo an initial editorial screening for scope, originality, quality, and fit with the journal’s mission.

Manuscripts that pass screening are sent for anonymous peer review, normally to at least two independent reviewers. Please see Reviewer Guidelines for more information about the evaluation criteria, the review process, etc.

Editorial decisions are made by the editor-in-chief or an assigned editor on the basis of reviewer reports and the journal’s quality standards. The journal may also publish invited contributions, but invited papers are subject to editorial quality control and, where appropriate, peer review.

Access Policy

The journal provides immediate Open Access to all published content.

Fees

The journal does not charge any article processing charges (APCs) or submission fees. Publication is free of charge for authors in the journal’s initial years of operation.

Copyright and Terms of Use

Articles published in Ecosystem Intelligence are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

Under this licence, authors retain copyright of their articles. By submitting and publishing an article in Ecosystem Intelligence, the authors grant the journal a non-exclusive, permanent, and irrevocable right to publish, distribute, and preserve the article in all published forms.

The CC BY 4.0 licence allows others to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, share, and adapt the published article for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors, the article title, the journal, and the publisher, and that a link to the licence is provided.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that they have obtained permission to include any third-party material, including figures, tables, photos, datasets, software, or other copyrighted content, where such material is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons licence.

For any third-party material not covered by the article’s open-access licence, reuse may require permission from the original copyright holder.

AI policy

Please see The AI policy of the journal.