About the Journal

ISSN 3055-7615

Aims and Scope

Collective Intelligence refers to the ways human ingenuity, creativity, and resilience can be harnessed in a connected, dynamic, and technology-enhanced world. It explores how we collectively respond to complex global challenges, seeking to improve our societal, economic, and technological capacities.

CIP provides a forum for systemic inquiry into collective phenomena. We invite contributions from diverse disciplines that offer:

  • New systemic principles
  • Novel methods for studying collective dynamics
  • Practical and theoretical insights for leveraging collective structures

We embrace creative rigor by publishing peer-reviewed essays, critical exchanges, responses, reports, reviews, and multimedia content. While we do not focus on empirical research per se, contributions should ground their arguments in evidence, observations, or clear reasoning.

The journal promotes academic-practice dialogue and particularly encourages submissions from early-career scholars.

Published by the GWS Society – Society for Managerial and Social Cybernetics (GWS e.V.), CIP is technically hosted by the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Focus and Vision

CIP takes a broad, inclusive view of Collective Intelligence—as a timely, distinctive concept with roots in diverse traditions.

Founded by the GWS Society (est. 1968), a long-standing advocate of transdisciplinary systems thinking and cybernetics, the journal builds on a rich intellectual legacy. Systems thinking has revealed how communication, information, coordination, and control generate organization. Today, we extend this legacy to understand and design socially and technologically networked systems that are intelligent, resilient, and regenerative.

In the Anthropocene, as digitalization reshapes our environments and grand challenges intensify, we need new insights into how collective cognition and action can arise and flourish.

CIP invites ideas, opinions, research, and provocations that explore the foundations and dynamics of emerging collective systems—both artificial and social. We welcome the full diversity of voices from the systems community and beyond.

Topics of Interest

We are particularly interested in contributions addressing:

  • Defining and conceptualizing Collective Intelligence
  • Coordinating collective responses to societal grand challenges
  • Human-machine integration for prediction, awareness, and augmentation
  • Digital platforms and infrastructures that support large-scale coordination
  • Organizational forms from micro to macro levels
  • Distributed AI and social computing in societal and business contexts
  • Network dynamics in human and institutional interaction
  • Modeling resilient, emergent system dynamics
  • Policy innovation and ethical experimentation in socio-technical systems

We also welcome fresh perspectives on systemic concepts, including:

  • Systemic analysis, synthesis, and design
  • Diversity, resilience, adaptability, ethics
  • Temporal and spatial cognition, virtuality, materiality
  • Complexity, variety, hierarchy, heterarchy
  • Autopoiesis, feedback, recursion
  • Observability, inference, discourse, resonance

And more.

CIP is your space for rethinking systems in light of Collective Intelligence.

 

Open Access Policy

Collective Intelligence Perspectives provides immediate open access to all published content. The journal follows the principles of open access as defined by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): scholarly work is made freely available without access charges and published under an open license that permits reuse subject to the applicable license terms.

Licensing and Copyright Terms

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This permits sharing, redistribution, adaptation, and reuse, including for commercial purposes, provided appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is provided, and any changes are indicated.

Authors retain the copyright to their work and grant Collective Intelligence Perspectives non-exclusive publishing rights.

Authors remain free to reuse, distribute, archive, and incorporate their published work into subsequent publications or other scholarly and professional activities, subject to the rights of any third-party material contained in the publication.

Article Processing Charges and Fees

Collective Intelligence Perspectives does not charge submission fees, article processing charges (APCs), publication fees, or other mandatory author charges.

Contributions to the journal are normally made without remuneration unless explicitly agreed otherwise in advance.

Archiving and Persistent Identification

Published articles are assigned persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) registered through DataCite.

CIP is developing its long-term digital preservation arrangements and intends to participate in recognized scholarly preservation and archiving initiatives as the journal develops and becomes eligible for the relevant services.

History and Participation

Collective Intelligence Perspectives was conceived in 2021 by the Board of Directors of the Society for Managerial and Social Cybernetics (GWS e.V.). Following a period of conceptual, editorial, and technical development, the journal commenced publication in 2026.

CIP is governed on a not-for-profit basis by the GWS Society and supported by an international editorial community. The journal welcomes scholars and experienced professionals who wish to contribute to its transdisciplinary dialogue on Collective Intelligence—as authors, reviewers, discussants, or members of its editorial community.

We are committed to academic openness, diversity, respectful dialogue, and broad participation across disciplines, professional backgrounds, career stages, and perspectives.

Editorial and contributor roles are generally undertaken without remuneration. The journal does not host commercial advertising.