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GPS Journal

Peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary, and built for uptake — scholarship that expects to be used.

Aims & scope

The GPS Journal publishes research that crosses the platform's four pillars — knowledge generation, technology and innovation, enterprise, and policy and public leadership — with particular attention to plural knowledge systems, research-to-policy pathways, and locally grounded innovation.

Transdisciplinary and trans-regional submissions are the norm, not the exception. Every article carries a practitioner-facing abstract, because scholarship here expects an audience beyond the academy.

Publication model

  • Open access, no author fees for Global South-based scholars
  • Double-anonymous peer review
  • First issue: 2027, alongside the Kigali Crossroads Week
Vol. 1 · 2027 · Peer-reviewed
GPS JOURNAL
Knowledge, Policy & Impact in the Global South
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Calls for papers

CFP 01 · Inaugural issue

Bridging the Missing Middle

Research–policy interfaces in the Global South: cases, models, failures, and measurement. Full papers for double-anonymous review.

OpenAbstracts due 15 Dec 2026 · Papers 31 Mar 2027
CFP 02 · Kigali 2027 conference

Education in Motion, Research in Action

Submissions across the five Crossroads tracks — accepted papers presented in Kigali and considered for the Journal.

OpenAbstracts due 30 Jan 2027
Editorial board

Being convened.

An editorial board of scholars across regions and disciplines is being assembled with the International Advisory Board — announced with the inaugural issue. How appointments work

Submissions

How to submit

1 · Prepare your manuscript
6,000–9,000 words for research articles; 2,500–4,000 for policy-facing commentary. Any recognized citation style, applied consistently. Include a 150-word practitioner abstract.
2 · Anonymize for review
Remove identifying information from the manuscript file; include a separate title page with authors and affiliations.
3 · Submit by email (interim)
Until the submission system launches with the GPS Academy platform, send manuscripts to info@gpsouth.org with the CFP number in the subject line.
4 · Review & decision
Double-anonymous review by two referees; first decisions targeted within 10 weeks.