Join the JPE Team

Editorial assistants  will have the following qualifications and will be responsible for the following:

1. They are at least pursuing an masters or doctoral degree (or international equivalent) in their area(s) of expertise with an accredited institution of higher education, and are actively pursuing research in the area of philosophy of emotion; high school or undergraduate students who demonstrate a high degree of maturity and professionalism will also be considered;


2. They have no conflict of interest between their responsibility toward the JPE and any other relevant activity or responsibility;


3. They will be responsible for upholding the JPE’s value and mission;


4. They will maintain professional standards, including the standards for editors noted in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, 2011;

5. They will be responsible for responding to general inquiries regarding the JPE;


6. They will be responsible for assisting the editors, including the editor-in-chief, with carrying out any administrative duties;


7. They may be asked to participate in the initial decision-making process for sending papers to peer-review as part of the JPE’s training process;


8. They may be invited to join the JPE as an editor after they demonstrated a sufficient amount of experience that would allow them to be effective editors;


9. They are welcome to advise the editor-in-chief on various decisions.


10. Given our double-anonymous review process, they would also be welcome to submit their manuscripts for publication in the JPE; and


11. The JPE may remove an editorial assistant from their position at any time if they are unable or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


Note: Beginning June 2024, any work in creating CFPs and typesetting journal articles completed by an editorial assistant is published on the assistant's JPE affiliated webpage, which is link backed to the JPE in order to give assistants due recognition of the work that they complete for the JPE. To directly review the body of work that an editorial assistant was responsible for, please view their profile page linked on the JPE team page.

The JPE in return agrees to the following regarding editorial assistants' conditions and terms of service:

1. The JPE will provide editorial assistants with professional training, including training in how to vet papers, to appropriately communicate with professionals in the field, time management, problem solving, organizational systems management, typesetting, etc.

2. The JPE  will provide editorial assistants with opportunities and mentoring support to pursue professionally related activities, such as participating in conferences, etc., although editorial assistants will not be allowed to participate in providing any administrative support for any book symposium to which they have submitted a commentary (in order to ensure that there are no conflicts of interests involved in the organizing of a book symposium).

3. The JPE will do its best to ensure that all editorial assistants are provided a manageable workload. 

4. The JPE will provide editorial assistants with a free annual SPE membership, which includes a one-time JPE manuscript submission fee waiver.

Guest editors will have the following qualifications and be responsible for the following:

1. They are a Ph.D. (or international equivalent) in their area(s) of expertise, are currently either an independent scholar, postdoctoral researcher, assistant professor, associate professor, professors, or hold an internationally equivalent position with an accredited institution of higher education, and are actively pursuing research in the area of philosophy of emotion;


2. They have no conflict of interest between their responsibility toward the JPE and any other relevant activity or responsibility;


3. They will be responsible for upholding the JPE’s value and mission, including maintaining the quality of its publications;


4. They will maintain professional standards, including the standards for editors noted in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, 2011;

5. They will be responsible for managing the JPE double-anonymous peer review process for a compiled, internally pre-vetted book symposium, including making any decisions relevant to the management of the double-anonymous peer review for which they are responsible; the editor-in-chief will, however, have final decision-making oversight;

6. They are welcome to advise the editor-in-chief on aspects of the JPE's double-anonymous peer review process;

7. They are invited to contribute an editorial introduction of the book symposium which they managed through the JPE's double-anonymous peer review process, which would include highlighting the significance of the discussions in the book symposium to the relevant discourse(s) and noting anything else which they believe is important to do so; the length of an editorial introduction will be decided by the guest editor and the editorial introduction will not be peer reviewed;

8. Will complete a JPE Guest Editor and Referee Registration Form.

9. The JPE may remove an editor from their position at any time if they are unable to or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


Editors will have the following qualifications and will be responsible for the following:

10. They are a Ph.D. (or international equivalent) in their area(s) of expertise, are currently either an independent scholar, postdoctoral researcher, assistant professor, associate professor, professors, or hold an internationally equivalent position with an accredited institution of higher education, and are actively pursuing research in the area of philosophy of emotion;


11. They have no conflict of interest between their responsibility toward the JPE and any other relevant activity or responsibility;


12. They will be responsible for upholding the JPE’s value and mission, including maintaining the quality of its publications;


13. They will maintain professional standards, including the standards for editors noted in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, 2011;

14. They will be responsible for managing the JPE double-anonymous peer review process for a compiled, internally pre-vetted book symposium, including making any decisions relevant to the management of the double-anonymous peer review for which they are responsible; the editor-in-chief will, however, have final decision-making oversight;

15. They will be responsible for participating in the general operations of the JPE;


16. They are also welcome to advise the editor-in-chief on various decisions;


17. After five (5) years of high-quality service (a total of 10 issues), the JPE will invite editorial board members to become members of the editorial advisory board;


18. Given our double-anonymous review process, editors would also be welcome to submit their manuscripts for publication in the JPE; and 


19. The JPE may remove an editor from their position at any time if they are unable to or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


The JPE in return agrees to the following regarding guest editors' and editors conditions and terms of service:

1. The JPE agrees to provide guest editors with information, materials, and administrative support to help ensure that they are able to fulfill their editor roles with ease, which includes ensuring that all manuscripts are internally vetted prior to being send to an editor for peer review so that the editor can ensure that peer referees are able to focus on providing substantive critical comments rather than spending their valuable time on grammatical concerns or concerns having to do with lack of scholarly rigor or clarity. 

2. The JPE will do its best to ensure that all editors are provided a manageable workload. 

3. The JPE will provide editors with a free annual SPE membership, which includes a one-time JPE manuscript submission fee waiver.

Junior editorial board members will have the following qualifications and will be responsible for the following:

1. They are in their final year of completing their Ph.D. (or international equivalent) with an accredited institution of higher education or a Ph.D. postdoctoral researcher, and are actively pursuing research in the area of philosophy of emotion;


2. They have no conflict of interest between their responsibility toward the JPE and any other relevant activity or responsibility;


3. They will be responsible for upholding the JPE’s value and mission, including maintaining the quality of its publications;


4. They will maintain professional standards, including the standards for editors noted in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, 2011;

5. They will be a dedicated junior referee for the JPE, on an as needed basis;


6. They will be responsible for providing timely, high-quality reviews, consistent with the JPE's Referee Guidelines, in order to assist the editors of the JPE in making their decision regarding the possible acceptance of manuscripts that are under consideration for publication with the JPE; and 


7. They will be willing to allow editors to anonymously share reviews with relevant authors and referees.

8. The JPE may remove an editorial board member from their position at any time if they are unable to or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


The JPE in return agrees to the following regarding junior editorial board members’ conditions and terms of service:

1. The JPE will ask editorial board members to only referee papers that are relevant to their areas of expertise or interests; 


2. The JPE will ask editorial board members to only referee one paper at a time;


3. The JPE will ask editorial board members to recommend qualified referees, on an as needed basis, if the editors are unable to find a suitable referee for a manuscript that is in an editorial board member’s area of expertise;


4. All paper referred by a junior editorial board member will also be double anonymously peer reviewed by two additional , more established referees, and all referee reports will be shared with all three of the referees. One aim of doing so is to provide junior editors with examples of referee reports produced by more senior referees in order to help junior referees hone their refereeing skills.

5. Once a junior editorial board member reaches a level of refereeing expertise that is on par with the level of expertise required from our editorial board members, they will be invited to become an editorial board member, and a junior editorial board member may request at any time during their tenure as a junior editorial board member for a editorial board review in order to advance them from a junior editorial board member to an editorial board member; and 


6. The JPE may remove a junior editorial board member from their position at any time if they are unable to or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


Editorial board members will have the following qualifications and will be responsible for the following:

1. They are a Ph.D. (or international equivalent) in their area(s) of expertise, are currently either an independent scholar or scholar in the rank of an assistant professor, associate professor,  or professors, or hold an internationally equivalent position with an accredited institution of higher education, and are actively pursuing research in the area of philosophy of emotion;


2. They have no conflict of interest between their responsibility toward the JPE and any other relevant activity or responsibility;


3. They will be responsible for upholding the JPE’s value and mission, including maintaining the quality of its publications;


4. They will maintain professional standards, including the standards for editors noted in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, 2011;

5. They will be a dedicated referee for the JPE, on an as needed basis;


6. They will be responsible for providing timely, high-quality reviews, consistent with the JPE's Referee Guidelines, in order to assist the editors of the JPE in making their decision regarding the possible acceptance of manuscripts that are under consideration for publication with the JPE; and 


7. They will be willing to allow editors to anonymously share reviews with relevant authors and referees.

8. The JPE may remove an editorial board member from their position at any time if they are unable to or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


The JPE in return agrees to the following regarding editorial board members’ conditions and terms of service:

1. The JPE will ask editorial board members to only referee papers that are relevant to their areas of expertise or interests; 


2. The JPE will ask editorial board members to only referee one paper at a time;


3. The JPE will ask editorial board members to recommend qualified referees, on an as needed basis, if the editors are unable to find a suitable referee for a manuscript that is in an editorial board member’s area of expertise;


4. After eight (8) years of dedicated, high-quality service with the JPE, the JPE will invite editorial board members to become a member of the JPE's editorial advisory board; and 


5. The JPE may remove an editorial board member from their position at any time if they are unable to or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


Editorial advisory board members will have the following qualifications and will be responsible for the following:

1. They are either senior scholars (professors or international equivalents) with international recognition in their area(s) of expertise and are actively pursuing research in the area of philosophy of emotion, they have provided high-quality service as an editor for the JPE for five (5) years, or they have provided high-quality service as an editorial board member for the JPE for eight (8) years;


2. They have no conflict of interest between their responsibility toward the JPE and any other relevant activity or responsibility;


3. They will be responsible for upholding the JPE’s value and mission, including maintaining the quality of its publications;


4. They will maintain professional standards, including the standards for editors noted in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, 2011;

5. They are willing to back, and therefore help promote, the JPE by being on our editorial advisory board;


6. They are willing to review each completed issue for its quality and provide any final comments or suggestions before it is published;


7. They will be available to offer any advice or support as needed by the JPE, including suggesting an appropriate peer reviewer for a particular paper, in order to maintain its standard of quality;
and 

8. Editorial advisory board members may also be asked to peer-review a paper if absolutely necessary.

9. The JPE may remove an editorial board member from their position at any time if they are unable to or unwilling to fulfill their commitment to the JPE.


The JPE in return agrees to the following regarding editorial advisory members’ condition and terms of service:

1. The JPE agrees to uphold its mission and core values; 


2. The JPE agrees to publish two issues per year (summer and winter); and


3. The JPE agrees to provide the editorial advisory board member at least one month to review a completed issue, prior to its publication.


If you do not meet all of the above qualifications but would still like to volunteer with the JPE in order to gain experience for a possible future in academic publishing or scholarly writing, please contact Cecilea Mun.

If you are interested in being filling anyone of the above positions with the JPE, please contact Cecilea Mun, the editor-in-chief, at submissions[dot]jpe[at]gmail.com.