About the Journal
Scope of the journal
Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the fantastic in today’s entertainment media. The fantastic is widely understood as stories and genres that break with natural laws. We use the fantastic as a supergenre and an umbrella term for all genres that use fantastic elements - science fiction, fantasy, fairytale, supernatural horror, superheroes, and more. The focus is on fantastic fiction in entertainment media, including film, television, games, comic books, and animated films. Media forms such as haunted houses, theme parks, painting and online forums also fall within our scope. Approaches include genre theory and aesthetic analysis as well as theories of world building, design and production studies, transmedia developments, and cognitive, biocultural and evolutionary theories.
The journal is double blind peer-reviewed. Articles are available online when they have been peer-reviewed and edited.
Peer review process
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by an editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to blind peer review by two or more independent, anonymous expert referees. Submission is only accepted through the online system via the journal webpage. For details about our peer review process click here.
Publication Frequency
Articles are published continuously as they are ready. Articles are organized in yearly volumes. Number of yearly issues vary from 1-3.
Open Access Policy
This journal operates with a open access policy based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and to make sure copyright stays with authors.
Therefore, all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Charges and fees
Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media does not charge for submission, review or publishing of articles.
Copyright and license
We use the least restrictive Creative Commons, by 4.0, see description below in the link.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
If you need a more restrictive Creative Commons please ask us specifically for this. See description below for the six different Creative Commons.
https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/
Articles published in ITI are licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The editorial board may accept other Creative Commons licenses for individual articles, if required by funding bodies e.g. the European Research Council.
Authors retain full copyright to their articles and give ITI the right to the first publication.
Publication Ethics
The Editorial Board is committed to ensuring that high ethical publishing standards are maintained by the ITI. As a benchmark, the ITI subscribes to the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/core-practices. Therefore, the standards are agreed upon and enacted by all parties involved in the publishing of ITI: the editorial board, the authors and the reviewers.
Publisher
Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media is published by the editors.
The journal is hosted at tidsskrift.dk by the Royal Library. Tidsskrift.dk is a part of the national strategy for Open Access, supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science
Archiving
The journal is preserved in Netarchive.dk in the event Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media is no longer published.