About the Journal

The Nordic Administrative Journal (NAT) is an interdisciplinary, open access journal published by the Nordic Administrative Association (NAF). The journal has strong roots. It has been published since 1920 and is the oldest interdisciplinary journal in the Nordic region.

As a scientific journal, the purpose is to unite experts in public administration and scientists who research public administration. Interdisciplinary is the journal's traditional strategy. This means that the perspective on the public administration can be legal, financial, administrative scientific/organizational or political science. Particularly desirable are comparisons of Nordic administrative practice and the facilitation for discussion, partly on the basis of scientific articles, and that management experts participate in the discourse.

The journal unites the Nordic departments of NAF and also informs about their activities and about current administrative events in the Nordic countries.

The journal usually publishes three numbers annually. The journal publishes articles in the Scandinavian languages Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Authors who do not speak Scandinavian languages can publish their articles in English.

NAT welcomes reviews, comments, book reviews and scientific articles that address these topics. Commentaries about scientific articles are also desirable. All scientific papers go through an anonymous peer review.

Guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for authors and peers

Only natural persons can be authors. Information obtained by artificial intelligence (e.g. ChatGPT) shall not be used as sources or referenced. Tools based on artificial intelligence can be used for translations, editing and brainstorming, without this being mentioned in the manuscript, but the authors themselves are responsible for the final text. If artificial intelligence is used in data collection or analysis, this must be explained in line with other methods with regards to common scientific criteria such as transparency and reproducibility.

Peer reviewers who assess manuscripts for the journal must not upload manuscripts for analysis using artificial intelligence.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC-BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Digital preservation in the PKP Preservation Network

The journal has signed up for the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) which uses the LOCKSS program for decentralized distributed digital preservation. This ensures continued access to the journal's content in the event of catastrophic failure or if the journal is no longer published and removed from the web, the content can still be made available again by PKP PN.