Mikael is a peer-reviewed open access online journal featuring original scientific articles. Mikael has been published since 2007 and has been peer-reviewed since 2016. Both the Finnish Publication Forum and the Norwegian Register of Scientific Journals, Series, and Publishers classify Mikael as a level 1 journal. Mikael is also a founding member of the Council of Editors of Translation and Interpreting Studies for Open Science network. Mikael is published by the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters (SKTL). Since 2024, Mikael has been available on the Finnish academic journal platform, journal.fi, at https://journal.fi/mikael.
Issue 2 of Mikael also includes thematic sections edited by guest editors. A thematic section contains at least three articles on the same topic. Additionally, the thematic section may have its own introductory article, which the guest editors write to tie the section’s articles together. Lecturers and workshop leaders from the IDLA seminar can publish a peer-reviewed scientific article related to their IDLA presentation in Mikael journal issue 2025/2. The proposed thematic section “Linguistic Accessibility” has been accepted for issue 25/2, and I will serve as the guest editor.
Sincerely, Lena Segler-Heikkilä
Manuscript Submission Checklist
Authors must ensure their manuscript adheres to all the following points. If these guidelines are not followed, the manuscript will be returned to the author.
- The text adheres to the author guidelines (see below).
- This manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it submitted to another publication (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor section).
- The manuscript file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document format.
- If it is a peer-reviewed article, the file is anonymized: 1) The file name is a short form of the article title 2) Author and identifying information have been removed from the file.
Author Guidelines
The contributor’s guidelines are available as a PDF file in Finnish, Swedish and English.
Peer-reviewed Scientific Article
A peer-reviewed article is an original or review article approved by two independent and anonymous peer reviewers (KOTA classification A1 or A2). An original article presents previously unpublished research results from the author’s or authors’ empirical or theoretical translation and interpreting research. The research design and results form a coherent whole, and the framework, data, methodology, results, and conclusions are documented reliably and reflect prior research.
Manuscripts intended for peer review are evaluated anonymously. Authors are expected to anonymize their texts, and editors ensure the anonymity of manuscripts before sending them for review by two experts in the field. Reviewers are not informed of the manuscript’s authorship, nor are authors informed of the reviewers’ identities.
Editors will send reviewers’ comments to the author and suggest other changes to the manuscript as needed. Authors are expected to consider both reviewers’ and editors’ suggestions, but if this is not possible or appropriate, the author must explain and justify the omission when returning the manuscript. Editors may require additional changes to the manuscript before publication or determine that the manuscript does not meet the criteria for publication as a peer-reviewed article, even with revisions.
Schedule
Please send all documents to lena.segler-heikkila@diak.fi.
- Submission deadline for peer-reviewed articles: November 30, 2024
- Notification of acceptance for peer review: January 15, 2025
- Peer reviews or editors’ feedback to authors: by May 31, 2025
- Manuscript revision: June 2025
- Final acceptance decision: August 2025
- Issue publication: December 2025
