Onomastics journals and publication opportunities for members of our network

 

Here you will find a selection of onomastics journals. All of them also offer the opportunity to publish research on personal names. 

Beiträge zur Namenforschung/ Contributions to Onomastics

Editor: Founded by Rudolf Schützeichel

Edited by DAMARIS NÜBLING – ROLF BERGMANN – KIRSTIN CASEMIR – ULRICH OBST – MIRJAM SCHMUCK – RUDOLF STEFFENS – KARIN STÜBER

Chief Editor: DAMARIS NÜBLING

Scientific Advisory Board: EMILIA ALDRIN – JAVIER CARO REINA – RÜDIGER HARNISCH – WOLFGANG JANKA – LUISE KEMPF – KATHARINA LEIBRING – ANTJE LOBIN – ANN MARYNISSEN – ELKE RONNEBERGER-SIBOLD – MIRIAM SCHMIDT-JÜNGST

Beiträge zur Namenforschung. Neue Folge is an international interdisciplinary journal for onomastics. The articles cover name usage and name history, name grammar and name theory. The journal is open to problems concerning personal names and animal names, geographical names, event names, product names, etc. in all languages, spaces and times. The focus is on the languages and names of Central Europe. Reviews provide information on new publications in onomastics as well as on publications relevant to onomastics on language history, dialectology, grammar, lexicography, history and archaeology. The languages of publication are German and English.

Namenkundliche Informationen / Journal of Onomastics

The journal Namenkundliche Informationen (NI) is published by the Gesellschaft für Namenforschung (GfN) e.V. and the Faculty of Philology at the University of Leipzig. It represents six decades of tradition in international onomastics research.

The journal is published as an annual volume in print at Leipzig University Press and, since 2023, has appeared simultaneously in an online edition (Gold Open Access). The focus is on all aspects of name research, including especially their interdisciplinary relations. Publication languages are German, English and French.

Incoming articles first undergo an editorial review by the editorial team and are then peer-reviewed by recognized experts in the field. Both the reviewer and the contributor are anonymous (double-blind procedure).

Starting from volume 95/96 (2009), all volumes of NI are available online as searchable PDF documents. The older volumes 15 (1969) to 93/94 (2008) have been digitized retroactively. The resulting PDF documents are image scans that are also searchable.

NoSo: Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics

 

The NoSo journal is a multidisciplinary, international, open access journal for research studying the role of names in society and in social interaction. It has been published since 2021 by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture and is indexed in DOAJ. The journal includes articles on all kinds of names, on historical as well as contemporary data, on different methods and on theoretical as well as practical issues. The scope is Nordic, in the sense that the published research aims to be of relevance for Nordic readers (but must not concern Nordic data or be written in Nordic languages). 

 

Members of the INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR PERSONAL NAMES RESEARCH are most welcome to read or submit articles via the journal website: https://publicera.kb.se/noso

Onomastica Canadiana

Onomastica Canadiana — formerly Onomastica — is the official, bilingual, peer-reviewed journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names since 1951. Its principal objectives are to promote the study of names in Canada and abroad, as well as to exchange ideas among onomatologists, toponymists, and scholars in the related fields of literary onomastics and linguistic aspects of names.