Call for Papers: Journal of Cultural Heritage & Development.

11-04-2025

Call for Papers: Journal of Cultural Heritage & Development.

The Journal of Cultural Heritage and Development invites submissions for its upcoming issue. The journal serves as a platform for academics, researchers, and professionals exploring the vital intersection between culture, heritage and development. Our mission is to publish original research that safeguards, preserves, promotes, and raises awareness about cultural heritage within a comprehensive framework.

Topics of Interest

We welcome high-quality papers addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

  • Awareness raising, safeguarding, preservation and exploitation of cultural heritage
  • Promotion of cultural diversity
  • ICT in the promotion and management of cultural heritage
  • Culture and heritage in conflict zones
  • Cultural erosion
  • Heritage management and economic analyses
  • Climate variability and its impact on cultural heritage management
  • Language as a vehicle for the transmission of cultural practices and communication of development issues.
  • Education and development, and for development
  • Higher education
  • Science, Technology and Cultural Heritage,
  • Gender, Culture and Heritage
  • Heritage and Cultural Tourism
  • Culture, Heritage and Innovation
  • Cultural Heritage, Identity and Globalisation
  • Gender, Culture and Heritage
  • Memorialisation and Meaning-Making
  • Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development,
  • Knowledge Management
  • Cultural Heritage and Environmental Sustainability
  • Cultural Heritage, Law and Ethics
  • Cultural Heritage, Identity and Globalisation
  • Cultural Heritage and Artificial Intelligence

Submission Guidelines

Authorship:

  1. For one to claim authorship, s/he must have substantively contributed from the outset in the design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting or substantive redaction of the manuscript, and ultimate endorsement of the version to be published.
  2. There is the corresponding author who is also largely the primary writer who is responsible for all aspects of publication, including the accuracy of the data, guaranteeing that no deserving author is neglected, and the approval of the final draft by all authors.
  3. Artificial intelligence should not be used to create content or acknowledged as an author.

Submission of Manuscripts:

  1. Requirements: Manuscripts should be submitted online using the link: https://journals.cut.ac.zw/index.php/jchd/about/submissions. Authors should register an account to be able to submit a manuscript. Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts have not been published before (except as an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis), are not presently being processed elsewhere, and do not breach any copyright.
  2. Ethical Standards: All submissions must abide by ethical standards, with the submission and publication being agreed upon by all co-authors, and any funders as well as responsible authorities that may have contributed to the research that led to the production of the manuscript should be acknowledged.
  3. All submissions will be checked for plagiarism, and it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the manuscript is free from plagiarism.

Changes in Authorship:

  1. Procedure: In the event of the need for authorship change, the corresponding author must send a direct mail requesting the change.
  2. In case of unresolved authorship disputes, authors should resolve their misunderstanding by asking for their institution’s intervention (if necessary), and that decision becomes binding.

Acknowledgements:

  1. Contributors: All contributors who are not authors should be acknowledged and this includes those who assisted financially to make the research and publication possible.
  2. This is ethically and morally important.

Ethical Considerations:

  1. Plagiarism and Fraud: The journal has the right to retract an article in the event of plagiarism or fraud. While accusations of plagiarism or fraud are taken seriously and addressed according to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ (COPE) decision-making schema, academic dishonesty is frowned upon in the academe and can lead to legal consequences.
  2. Conflicts of Interest: Authors should disclose any potential existing allegiances that could influence the research or analysis of results.

Publication Ethics:

  1. Transparency: The journal is committed to upholding honesty and integrity in the publication process and adheres to best editorial practices.
  2. Corrections and Retractions: Corrections to published articles are prompt, and retractions are effected when necessary.

Open Access Policy:

  1. Accessibility: The journal is open-access to ensure that research findings are freely accessible to the public as a way of promoting the propagation of knowledge.