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Humanities, Social Sciences
Alicia Aparicio
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Spanish)
Librarianship, Scholarly Publishing, Data Management
Fei Yu
Brisbane, Australia (Chinese, English)
Humanities, Social Sciences
Geoff Husic
Lawrence, KS, USA (Russian, German, English)
Medicine
Lut Tamam
Adana, Türkiye (Turkish, English)
Humanities, Social Sciences
Natalia Pamuła-Cieślak
Toruń, Poland (Polish, English)
Research Evaluation
Paola Galimberti
Milan, Italy (Italian, German, English)
Recently-added journals
DOAJ’s team of managing editors, editors, and volunteers work together with publishers to index new journals. As soon as they’re accepted, these journals are displayed on our website, freely accessible to everyone.
- Revue Française de Gestion Industrielle
- Musicologica Olomucensia
- Media Theory
- Journal of Clinical Practice and Research
- Comunicación y Sociedad
- West African Journal of Open and Flexible Learning
- 罕见病研究
- Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica
- Dili Kexue
- Journal of Innovation and Research in Primary Education
- زبان کاوی کاربردی
- Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Engineering
- Quality
- Minga
- Journal of Bioresources and Environmental Sciences
- Medien & Zeit