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Policies
Research Integrity
We adhere to the best practices in the ethics of scholarly publishing stated in the COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for all parties involved: Authors, Reviewers and the Publisher. If you have questions or concerns regarding research integrity or publishing ethics in this journal, you may contact the editor.
Reviewing Policy
Passion is committed to reviewing papers fairly and impartially. We proceed in various stages. First, papers are initially evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief. Second, papers are evaluated by associate editors. Third, papers are sent for double blind peer review. Papers might be rejected during any stage of this process.
Book reviews, book symposia contributions and review essays are not subject to normal peer review. These are reviewed by an editor who can make a judgement on their own without sending the paper for peer review. They may also request additional guidance from other editors or peer reviewers to help inform their judgements if they judge that it is needed.
Special Issue Policy
Special issues are prepared following a special issue proposal from guest editors to the editors-in-chief who will accept or not after consulting with the associate editors.
All special issue papers are initially read by an editor-in-chief to check if they are suitable for the journal. If so, the papers are forwarded to the special issues editors who act as associate editors for the paper. The special issues editors then act in the same way as associate editors do for normal submissions: they find referees to review the papers and then make a decision on the basis of at least two referee reports.
When a guest editor submits to a special issue, their paper is handled by the editor-in-chief and an associate editor for the journal. If no conflict of interest is present and the issue is edited by multiple guest editors, another guest editor will serve as associate editor for this paper.
Editors-in-chief, associate editors and guest editors must all declare conflicts of interest. When these are declared, the relevant papers will be handled by other members of the editorial team.
Editorial introductions are not peer reviewed but are reviewed by an editor-in-chief.
Generative AI/ Large Language Models policy
Guidelines for authors
Passion seeks to publish papers about emotion written by beings capable of experiencing emotions. Since the view of the editors-in-chief is that generative AI tools are incapable of experiencing emotions, generative AI cannot be the author or co-author of an article for Passion. Passion will not consider articles that have been authored or co-authored using generative AI.
Papers that contain fictitious references will be considered as having committed a severe academic integrity violation and the editorial staff may take further action as a result.
As we do not accept papers (co-)authored by generative AI, this means that we will not consider articles that:
- Copy text, tables, figures or images produced by generative AI and present them as the author’s own work. We consider this to be plagiarism.
- Presents arguments or objections that have been produced by generative AI as the author’s own. While it may be acceptable to draw on such ideas these should always be credited to the generative AI system that produced them. As we value work that presents insights on emotion from being that experience them, papers that draw heavily on insights from generative AI are likely to deemed as less publishable than those that draw on the author’s own arguments.
Certain uses of generative AI may be allowed and will be considered on a case-by-case basis:
- The use of generative AI to produce images, figures and tables that are clearly labelled as having been produced using generative AI and that have been carefully reviewed by the author for accuracy.
Certain uses of generative AI are acceptable but should be clearly indicated:
- The use of generative AI to assist in finding additional relevant literature to read. This should not replace a human-conducted literature review
- The use of generative AI to assist in copyediting a text. This should be clearly listed by the author in the acknowledgements section.
Guidelines for reviewers and editors
Submissions to Passion are confidential. As a result, neither (guest) editors nor reviewers should upload submissions to external servers such as generative AI tools. Those who agree to referee for Passion are agreeing to give their assessment of the submission, not the assessment of a generative AI tool. It is not appropriate for a reviewer or editor to base their evaluation even partially on the basis of the output of a generative AI system.
The only acceptable use of generative AI tools in the reviewing process is as assistance in copyediting a referee report. This use should be clearly indicated.
Open Access Policy
This journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. This journal does not charge article processing fees.
Archiving policy
To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal utilises Portico and the PKP Preservation Network to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.
Repository Policy
Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit versions of their work in a repository of their choice.
Copyright and License
Authors retain copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions and grant the journal the right of first publication. Articles are published under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which allows others to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. When reused, the authorship of the work must be stated and reference made to the original publication in this journal.
ORCID ID
Authors are encouraged to use their ORCID ID when submitting their manuscript.
