Present and Publish
There are a wide variety of opportunities to present and publish undergraduate research. Students should work closely with their faculty advisor to prepare and submit works for broader dissemination.
Opportunities to Present Your Research
- MWSU Multidisciplinary Research Day (MRD) – Campus event held on the 2nd to last Friday of each semester.
- National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) – Annual conference featuring undergraduate research and achievements.
- Missouri Academy of Science (MAS) – Annual conference featuring research occurring in the State of Missouri.
Opportunities to Publish Your Research
Broad Scope
The following journals accept submissions from a wide variety of disciplines.
Aletheia: The Alpha Chi Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship
Peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate scholarship run by the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society.
American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR)
National, independent, faculty peer-reviewed, open-source, quarterly, multidisciplinary student research journal.
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research (BJUR)
Submission of original, scholarly research articles is open to undergraduates from any accredited college or university. BJUR publishes scholarship across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Discussions: The Undergraduate Research Journal of Case Western Reserve University
The journal accepts research papers written by current undergraduate students from accredited colleges and universities around the globe. The research can be on any topic.
Inquiries: Social Sciences, Arts, & Humanities
An open-access academic journal focusing on publishing high-quality original work across a range of disciplines, especially on work in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
International Journal of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (IJURCA)
Peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the publication of outstanding scholarship by undergraduates and their mentors. Accepts submissions from all academic disciplines, including original research in the form of articles and literature reviews, as well as creative work in a variety of media.
Journal of Student Research
Multidisciplinary and faculty-reviewed journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research done by high school, undergraduate, and graduate students.
Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research
Multidisciplinary scholarly journal produced by a team of Monmouth College student editors and faculty members with peer and faculty reviewers for each article.
Undergraduate Research Journal
Double-blind, educator-reviewed print and electronic journal published annually. A forum for multidisciplinary undergraduate research and creative endeavors including case studies, conceptual pieces, creative writing, journalism writings, literature reviews, original art, photography, and scientific studies. Highlights mentored undergraduate scholarly products across all disciplines from all types of higher education institutions.
UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity
The official undergraduate journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Submissions are accepted from undergraduates in the following categories: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Fine Art, and Creative Writing.
Arts and Humanities
Animus: The Undergraduate Classical Journal of the University of Chicago
Supports undergraduate scholarship in the Classics and related fields.
Archive: An Undergraduate Journal of History
Accepts submissions of History scholarship, including scholarly papers, articles, book reviews, and historical essays from undergraduate students of all majors from colleges and universities in the U.S. or abroad.
Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics
Original manuscripts on any topic related to Classics from undergraduate students in any major at an institution which confers a bachelor’s degree are eligible to submit.
Clio’s Scroll: The Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal
The journal publishes articles by undergraduates and recent graduates of any university on historical topics.
Dies Ligibiles: An Undergraduate Journal of Medieval Studies
The journal accepts research papers, book reviews, translations, and art in English, French, and Spanish from any undergraduate student at any college or university. The work must pertain to the time period 400 – 1600 CE.
Epistemai: An Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
A student-run philosophy journal at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. The journal publishes short, original philosophical work done by undergraduates from universities across the country, and internationally.
Falsafa: Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy
Run by the Philosophy Club at the University of California, Irvine, this journal highlights philosophical ideas and research by undergraduates.
Forbes & Fifth
This undergraduate journal of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh considers both scholarly and creative work from students at any accredited university in the world.
The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era
Open-access peer-reviewed undergraduate journal that publishes academic essays, public history essays, and book reviews on the Civil War Era.
History Matters: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research
An undergraduate history journal published annually by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. The journal is indexed by EBSCOhost’s America: History and Life.
Journal of Art History and Museum Studies (JAHMS)
An undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that publishes undergraduate scholarship by a diverse coalition of student artists and historians.
The Kennesaw Tower: Undergraduate Foreign Language Research Journal
Annual undergraduate double-blind and peer-reviewed journal publishes scholarly work of advanced undergraduates students in Chinese, FLED, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Mysterion: The Theology Journal of Boston College
Publishes undergraduate research from around the world on topics related to theology.
Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology
Publishes essays written by undergraduate students from universities around the world. Topics include historical musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music theory, music education, and interdisciplinary subjects. Double-blind review by professors across Canada.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
Published annually, and requiring a faculty member’s endorsement, the refereed journal is indexed in EBSCO and accepts undergraduate criticism and research in the field of English from students throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Queen City Writers: a journal of undergraduate writing & composing
Refereed journal that publishes essays and multimedia work by undergraduate students affiliated with any post-secondary institution. Topics covered include writing, rhetoric, reading, pedagogy, literacy broadly conceived, popular culture and media, community discourses and multimodal and digital composing.
Rock Creek Review
An undergraduate journal edited, produced and published at Heidelberg University in partnership with the English Department. The journal publishes literary research from schools around the world for an annual publication. Check the website for the “call for papers,” which will explain the theme of the next issue.
RhetTech Undergraduate Journal
Run by students at James Madison University, this journal showcases exemplary work being done in undergraduate writing, rhetoric, and technical communication courses around the country.
sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies
A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the diverse voices of emerging scholar-activists, authors, and artists in Women’s Gender & Queer Studies and related fields. First established at McGill University, sprinkle is now published at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and welcomes submissions from around the world.
Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
Peer-reviewed journal publishes original work by undergraduates from around the world.
UC Berkeley Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal
Publishes undergraduate research in comparative texts and media, treating a broad range of topics including theoretical literary discourse, international trends in literature, and comparisons for national literature. Showcases the best work across the U.S. and also highlight more contemplative writing by students regarding multicultural issues, culture shock, or transnational experiences such as studying abroad.
UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History
A space for undergraduates to share original research other scholarly works of history. Reviewed by graduate students with faculty mentorship.
The Word: The Stanford Journal of Student Hiphop Research
Continually solicits research papers and blog content related to hiphop culture. An open-source, open peer-refereed journal. Open to undergraduates from any college or university.
Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum
The fall issues publish these and research projects of upper-level undergraduate students. Submissions may be traditional articles or multimodal “webtexts.” Based in the English Department at the University of New Mexico.
Yale Historical Review
Welcomes works from undergraduates at any institution on any historically relevant topic.Young Scholars in Writing (YSW)
An international peer-reviewed journal. Publishes original research and theoretical articles by undergraduates of all majors and years on the subjects of rhetoric, writing, writers, discourse, language, and related topics.
Social Sciences
Chicago Journal of Foreign Policy
Student-run academic journal published at the University of Chicago. Publishes undergraduate analyses of issues related to international affairs.
Chicago Journal of Foreign Policy: University of Chicago’s Premiere Undergraduate Journal of International Affairs
Accepts submissions from undergraduates from around the world on articles related to foreign policy, international relations, and related topics, preferably pertaining to the period since 1945.
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
A joint project of Northern Illinois University and Arizona State University, Compass publishes work related to American democracy understood in the broad contexts of political philosophy, history, literature, economics, and culture.
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
To encourage an international community to think more broadly, deeply, and analytically about sustainable development, the journal publishes work by students, researchers, professors, and practitioners from a variety of academic fields and geographic regions.
Critique: a worldwide student journal of politics
Peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship by students of political science. The journal is recognized by the American Political Science Association and indexed by EBSCO.
The Developing Economist
Student-run undergraduate economics research journal, published with support from the Longhorn Chapter of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honor Society and the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Issues in Political Economy
Co-edited by undergraduates at Elon University and the University of Mary Washington, the journal publishes undergraduate research in the field of economics and is indexed in Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Economics and Finance.
Journal of Integrated Social Sciences
A web-based, peer-reviewed journal committed to the scholarly investigation of social phenomena. We especially encourage students and their faculty advisors to submit the results of their investigations in Psychology, Sociology, and Gender Studies.
Journal of Interpersonal Relations, Intergroup Relations, and Identity (JIRIRI)
Affiliated with the Universite de Montreal, the international peer-reviewed journal publishes the work of undergraduates on new theoretical ideas in the fields of psychology, identity, interpersonal and intergroup relations. It publishes both theoretical and empirical articles.
Journal of Politics and Society
Published by the student group Helvidius at Columbia University, the journal focuses on undergraduate interdisciplinary research in the social sciences.
The Journal of Undergraduate Ethnic Minority Psychology (JUEMP)
Open access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing research authored or co-authored by undergraduates. The journal is especially interested in submissions that are from ethnic minorities’ perspectives, that focus on the thoughts and behaviors of ethnic minority populations, or both.
New Errands: The Undergraduate Journal of American Studies
Sponsored by The Eastern American Studies Association and the American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg, this journal publishes undergraduate research in the field of American Studies.
The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Review
International undergraduate journal housed in the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech. Through a double-blind review process, the journal publishes original research in the humanities and social sciences from undergraduates worldwide.
Process: Journal of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Scholarship
Published quarterly, the journal publishes undergraduate writings that rigorously engage with issues of social justice, transformative education, politics, identity, and cultural production. Publishes both critical essays and non-traditional or multimodal compositions.
Righting Wrongs: A Journal of Human Rights
Based at Webster University’s Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, this peer-reviewed academic journal publishes undergraduate research papers, book reviews, opinion pieces, and photo essays that explore human rights issues.
Social Moments: A Student Journal of Social Relations
Interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal examining the social and cultural world through a social science lens. All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit work in any social science discipline.
Sociology between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics
Undergraduates, graduates, and professionals in sociology and related fields may submit their articles, books and film reviews, and point-of-view essays. Double-blind peer review.
Undergraduate Economic Review (UER)
Supported by the Department of Economics and The Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University, this is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that publishes undergraduate research in the field of economics from around the world.
Undergraduate Journal of Global Citizenship
Based at Fairfield University, the journal publishes undergraduate research on topics related to International Studies such as global awareness, interdependence, environmental responsibility, social justice, humanitarianism, and other themes that promote the understanding of global citizenship.
Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning & Community-Based Research
Refereed, multidisciplinary, open-access undergraduate journal that publishes articles from students all around the world. Accepted articles contribute to the literature on service learning and community-based research through reflection, research, or analysis. Based at University of North Carolina Wilmington.
The Undergraduate Research Journal of Psychology at UCLA (URJP)
Based at UCLA, but accepting submissions of undergraduate research from institutions all over the world, this peer-reviewed journal aims to empower undergraduate students to engage in and with research and facilitate scientific conversation and inquiry in the field of psychology.
STEM Fields
Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal (CUSJ)
Open-access science journal that publishes manuscripts resulting from significant scientific research or analysis. Each paper undergoes a double-blind peer review process and a faculty review by the CUSJ Faculty Advisory Board.
EvoS: The Evolutional Studies Consortium
A peer-reviewed open-access journal, EvoS welcomes work from all academic disciplines and interdisciplinary scholarship that incorporates evolutionary theory.
Illumin Magazine: A Review of Engineering in Everyday Life
An online magazine dedicated to exploring the science and technology behind the things we encounter every day. Features the work of University of Southern California undergraduate engineers, as well as submissions from universities across the U.S.
Impulse: The Premier Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal
International online neuroscience journal for undergraduate publications.
International Journal of Exercise Science
This journal engages undergraduate and graduate students in scholarly activity as both authors and reviewers. Articles on exercise science undergo peer review.
Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society
An open access international science, technology, and society research journal that accepts undergraduate, graduate, and PhD submissions at the intersection of history, culture, sociology, art, literature, business, law, health, and design with science and technology. Students from around the world are invited to submit.
Involve: A Journal of Mathematics
High quality mathematical research involving students from all academic levels. Submissions should include substantial faculty input; faculty co-authorship is required and the submission should come from a faculty member.
Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research
Peer-reviewed journal that publishes undergraduate students’ work in chemistry, including analytical, organic, inorganic, physical, polymers, and biochemistry.
Journal of Undergraduate Kinesiology Research
Published by the Kinesiology Department at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, the peer-reviewed, journal is dedicated to original undergraduate research in Kinesiology. Currently, the research originates from students at the University of Wisconsin, but undergraduates from all institutions are invited to submit.
Journal of Undergraduate Reports in Physics (JURP)
Peer-reviewed publication of the Society of Physics Students comprised of undergraduate research, outreach, and scholarly reporting.
Journal of Young Investigators (JYI)
JYI publishes original work in the sciences written by undergraduates mentored by a faculty member. The mission of the journal is to improve undergraduate science training by providing innovative, high quality educational experiences in science writing, publication, and the peer-review process.
Missouri Academy Transactions
Transactions is the official journal published by the Missouri Academy of Science. It provides faculty and students with an avenue for publishing their conference abstracts as well as original research articles. The journal is peer-reviewed by members of the academy.
Psi Chi Journal
Undergraduate, graduate, and faculty submissions welcome year round to this peer-reviewed psychology journal.
Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal
Devoted entirely to papers written by undergraduates on topics in the mathematical sciences. Sponsored by the Mathematics Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the journal accepts submissions from undergraduates around the world and faculty co-authors are not permitted.
RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences
Faculty-refereed international journal devoted to the publication of high quality research by undergraduates in all agricultural research problem areas.
SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (SIURO)
Run by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), SIURO publishes articles written by undergraduates from all over the world in the field of computational mathematics. Each paper must be submitted with a letter from a faculty advisor.
Spectrum
Published by the University of Alberta, this multidisciplinary journal publishes research completed by undergraduates in a variety of formats including research articles, review articles, music, video, visual arts, and creative writing.
Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics
Published by Illinois State, this is an open-access refereed research journal dedicated to publishing high quality manuscripts by undergraduate or graduate students that describe mathematical and statistical techniques to solve problems in biological settings, as well as in experimental biology. Requires an article processing charge.
PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research
PUMP stands for Preparing Undergraduate Mathematicians for Ph.D.s, and the journal publishes articles by undergraduates students who want to pursue doctoral studies in the Mathematical Sciences. The journal especially encourages submissions by students from underrepresented groups. Topics include pure and applied mathematics and statistics and authors may submit research papers, papers containing new proofs of known results, and expository papers which propose original points of view.
Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI+)
Based at the University of British Columbia, the journal has two versions — one that publishes only UBC students (UJEMI) and the other that is open to external submissions (UJEMI+). Dedicated to the publication of undergraduate articles in fields related to microbiology and immunology, the journal requires a formal endorsement from a course instructor or researcher who mentored the student authors.