Journal Policies

The Getty Research Journal is a diamond open-access publication. It is published through Getty’s Quire software and freely available in web, PDF, and e-book formats to read, download, search, or use for any other lawful purpose. All issues, including those previously accessible only by subscription (nos. 1–18), are also available to read open access through Project MUSE and JSTOR.

Open licenses—in which some rights are reserved—promote sharing, access to knowledge and culture, and academic collaboration. Article text in the Getty Research Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Under this open license, authors retain rights to their work, while users may copy, distribute, or adapt the work, with appropriate attribution, for noncommercial purposes only. To properly attribute reuse of article content licensed under CC BY-NC, users must credit the author and publication details (in the web format, see the “Cite” dropdown at the top of each article). Reuse does not imply endorsement by the original author.

Images are reproduced with the permission of the rights holders acknowledged in captions and are expressly excluded from the CC BY-NC license covering the text of each publication. Images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted, or manipulated without consent from the owners, who reserve all rights.

For issue nos. 1–18, all rights are reserved. Anyone wishing to reuse article content or images from archival issues must reach out to the copyright holder(s) for permission.

Authors are asked to notify the Getty in writing of any commercial license or other publication of the article by the author within one year of Getty publication.

Authors may choose to deposit their work in institutional or other repositories; there is no restriction or embargo on self-archiving.

The Getty Research Journal publishes original work. Authored content that has been published in a previous format, in part or as a whole, will not be considered. Exceptions, including new translations, should be discussed with the editor at the time of submission.

To preserve the integrity of scholarship published in the journal, the journal uses Similarity Check, a plagiarism-detection software integrated into Scholastica’s submission management system, to assess the originality of submitted manuscripts. Editors evaluate the nature and degree of text overlap or similarity to determine whether any kind of potential plagiarism—including self-plagiarism—has occurred. Although the journal conducts this procedure, original authorship and any violations of academic integrity are the responsibility of the author.

Plagiarism, even if unintentional, includes:

• using another author’s work (or translation) without proper citation and/or attribution to the source
• paraphrasing insufficiently and/or without clear attribution
• using content obtained via private communication, including peer review, without authorization and/or attribution
• using overlapping content (verbatim or reworded) from one’s own published work without sufficient quotation and/or attribution (self-plagiarism; for more information, see COPE’s guidelines on text recycling)

Authors are responsible for verifying and citing any content generated from AI. The use of AI-generated content in a text without attribution will be treated as plagiarism.

Work that uses content from an author’s own dissertation should attribute the dissertation where applicable.

If a claim of plagiarism is brought to the attention of the journal, the editors and Editorial Advisory Committee will investigate and take the appropriate action(s), which may include withdrawal, decline, correction, or retraction.

The Getty Research Journal seeks to make accessible the scholarly study of works from across Getty collections. The Editorial Advisory Committee is committed to the publication of recent acquisitions and unpublished works, and views all items in Getty collections as fit for inclusion in the journal. We encourage authors to address issues of provenience and ownership history when publishing objects, and will make available all pertinent information.

If you have published with the Getty Research Journal before, or are planning multiple submissions, please note that authors are permitted to publish a maximum of two times with the journal over a period of six years. An exception may be made for content in special issues or collaboratively authored pieces. If you have any questions about this policy, we encourage you to contact the GRJ Editorial Office.

Authors are expected to identify any potential conflicts of interest when prompted in Scholastica to signal reviewers to avoid. A conflict of interest is a personal, collaborative, or competing relationship that could detract from the objectivity and/or anonymity of the review process. Examples include dissertation advisers, project collaborators, institutional colleagues in direct academic competition, funding relationships, or Getty staff members who may have encouraged/solicited a certain submission.

Peer reviewers will be asked to identify any conflicts of interest when invited to review. If a reviewer discerns the identity of an author at any point during the review process, they are asked to disclose this to the editor. While the editors will make every reasonable effort to identify conflicts of interest where possible, the journal must rely on the honesty of authors and reviewers to disclose this information, including the type of competing interest, extent, and recency. Editors may request additional information about conflicts of interest.

Disclosures of conflicts of interest to the editor remain confidential. In the event that there is a conflict of interest with the editor, the editor will enlist a board member to conduct additional internal review.

The Getty Research Journal follows the position of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on authorship and the use of AI tools, which states:

“AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.”

If you have any questions about the use of AI in your work, please contact the GRJ Editorial Office.

There are no submission, processing, withdrawal, or other publication fees for an author who publishes in the journal. Only the fees associated with image acquisition are the responsibility of the author.

Authors are invited to include their ORCID iDs in the relevant form field in Scholastica when they upload their submission materials to the journal. ORCID iDs are persistent digital identifiers unique to each researcher. For more information about ORCID iDs and how to register for one, see https://orcid.org/.