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About the journal

The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. Although focused on original ideas, the IJW also publishes competent and timely review articles and critical notices. Learn more >>

WHY PUBLISH IN THE IJW?

Open access – The IJW publishes your work free from all access barriers, allowing for global distribution and more citations. In 2020 full texts of our articles were viewed over 1 million times from 210 countries, averaging 42 Google Scholar citations each.
Indexing – The IJW is indexed in various international open access databases and journal databases, such as the Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journals, CiteFactor, and Google Scholar.
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Post-publication statistics – Metrics shown with each article make it easy to check how often your paper is being downloaded via the IJW website.
Comply with archiving policies – You can deposit any version of your paper in any required repository or archive, and post articles on your personal or institutional website.
Add supplementary material – You can make data sets, protocols, very large illustrations, videos, questionnaires etc. available to readers alongside your article.