About the Journal

ISSN
The journal will apply for an ISSN number as soon as the number of published articles allows it.

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, CIP is hosted by the Department of General Business Management and Operations Management at 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

The journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that freely available research fosters global knowledge exchange, innovation, and academic freedom. The journal aligns with the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) definition of open access. According to DOAJ, this means “the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose” (source: DOAJ website, February 2022). CIP does not support or use journal Impact Factors.

Licensing and Copyright Terms

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This allows anyone to share (copy and redistribute) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the work—even for commercial purposes—provided appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is included, and any changes are indicated. Attribution must not imply endorsement by the author or licensor.

Authors retain the copyright of their work without restriction. They grant the journal non-exclusive publishing rights. Authors may:

  • Reuse the content in future works (e.g., lectures, books)
  • Reproduce the article for personal use (not for sale)
  • Self-archive the article

Author Charges and other Charges or Fees

The journal does not charge any fees to authors. Likewise, authors may not request compensation or reimbursement from the journal.

Archiving

Once an ISSN and DOAJ listing are established, the editorial team plans to integrate the journal into recognized preservation and archiving initiatives supported by DOAJ (see DOAJ preservation initiatives).

History and Call for Participation

The journal was conceived in 2021 by the Board of Directors of the Society for Social and Managerial Cybernetics (GWS e.V.). As of 2023, the journal is in its initiation stage.

The editorial board welcomes applications from scholars and experienced professionals interested in the journal’s focus on Collective Intelligence. We especially encourage participation from underrepresented groups, including indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, racialized persons, women, and members of gender-diverse communities. We are committed to equity, inclusion, and diverse representation.

Please note: No remuneration is provided for editorial or contributor roles. The journal does not host advertising content on its website.