Peer Review Policy
The Movement Journal
The Movement Journal conducts editorial review of all submissions. Every submission received through the journal's submission pipeline is evaluated against the standards described here before an acceptance or decline decision is issued.
Scope of review
The Movement Journal accepts motion capture recordings, dance films, and audio narratives including oral histories, teaching transmissions, folk songs, and process documentation. All submissions must represent a coherent, bounded expression of movement knowledge with documented cultural context and three levels of citation: scholarly, movement, and cultural.
Review process
Every submission undergoes a two-stage review. The first stage is an editorial assessment by the Movement Journal's editorial team, which evaluates the submission for completeness, citation quality, and cultural documentation. Submissions that pass the editorial assessment proceed to peer review by at least one movement scholar with relevant expertise in the tradition or practice represented. The peer reviewer evaluates the submission's scholarly contribution, cultural accuracy, and the quality of its contextual documentation.
Cultural consultation
Submissions representing traditions with living practitioner communities are subject to cultural consultation in addition to scholarly peer review. Cultural consultation involves engagement with a tradition-bearer or community representative who can evaluate the accuracy and appropriateness of the submission's cultural documentation.
Decision categories
The editorial team issues one of three decisions following review: Accept, Request Revision, or Decline. Accepted submissions proceed to DOI assignment through Zenodo. Revision requests include specific editorial notes. Declined submissions receive a brief explanation.
Review timeline
The Movement Journal aims to issue editorial decisions within eight weeks of submission. Supported review submissions receive priority attention and an expedited timeline.
Editorial standards
The Movement Journal holds submissions to the following standards. Cultural citations must credit the tradition-bearers, teachers, and communities from which the movement derives. Scholarly citations must situate the work within the existing literature. Movement citations must acknowledge prior recordings in the corpus the submission relates to or responds to. The cultural citation is the journal's most important field and is required for every submission without exception.
Open access
All accepted submissions are published open access. There are no reader fees. Submission is free. A supported review tier is available at $75 per submission for contributors who want structured editorial feedback and expedited review.
Contact
For questions about the review process contact admin@thetriadic.studio.
The Movement Journal is a publication of Global Movement Research at the University of Texas at Austin. thetriadic.studio