Focus and Scope

The publication seeks manuscripts that address healthcare from multi-disciplinary and professional perspectives, with an emphasis on scientific and humanistic input. The submitted manuscripts should address the issue theme. The first issue focuses on radiation effects and events. Upcoming themes for future issues will be posted on the website.

Desired manuscript categories include hypothesis and theory, perspectives, and conceptual analysis through original research, policy and practice reviews, community case studies, pedagogy related to better understanding multi-disciplinary courses, opinion pieces, and editorials. Other article types may also be appropriate.

In addition to manuscripts, article types may include interviews (video or audio), graphic narratives, photographs or photo essays, and other multimedia projects.

Research Misconduct Policy

The editors of Dialogues Across Health, Science, Humanities and Archives will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including but not limited to plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication. In the event that the editors are made aware of any allegations of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the editors shall follow the Committee on Publication Ethic’s guidelines in handling allegations.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published continuously online. Articles included in issues are published one at a time to ensure they are available as soon as possible, but new submissions are not accepted after the deadline determined for each themed issue. The journal also includes a variety of supplemental materials. These have not necessarily been peer reviewed or edited by the editors or staff but have been contributed by authors. These collections include conference proceedings, video interviews, images, etc.

Distribution and Copyright

Works published in DAHSHA will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). By granting a CC BY license in their work, authors retain copyright ownership of the work, but they give explicit permission for others to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the work, as long as the original source and author(s) are properly cited (i.e., a complete bibliographic citation and link to the DAHSHA website). No permission is required from the author(s) or the publishers for such use. According to the terms of the CC BY license, any reuse or redistribution must indicate the original CC BY license terms of the work. Exceptions to the application of the CC BY license may be granted at the editors’ discretion if reasonable extenuating circumstances exist. Such exceptions must be granted in writing by the editors of DAHSHA; in the absence of a written exception, the CC BY license will be applied to all published works.

Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in DAHSHA as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher’s PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal’s website (https://dahsha.blogs.rice.edu/).

Artificial Intelligence Usage

With the goal of having effective, transparent, and scholarly research, DAHSHA requires articles to be free from AI-generated content. Submitted articles should not contain material created using AI-text generators and AI-image generators. However, AI-generated information is acceptable if the subject of the article is AI. In this case, all instances of AI-generated text must be identified as such, through proper, full bibliography citation and an explanation of the article’s use of AI in the Author Agreement Form.

Disclaimer

The articles published in this journal and included in the affiliated collection do not necessarily represent the views of the editors and staff as well as their affiliated institutions.

The PDF version of these policies can be found here.