The Journal of Online Trust and Safety aims to bring together rigorous trust and safety research, which is currently spread across many disciplines, and to spur new research in this field. 

Priority areas for the Journal of Online Trust and Safety include, but not limited to, child exploitation and non-consensual intimate imagery; suicide and self-harm; incitement and terrorism; hatespeech and harassment; spam and fraud; and misinformation and disinformation. We are interested in these abuses on social media platforms, end-to-end encrypted platforms, blockchain technologies, and more.

While we expect a majority of articles in this journal will come from academics at universities, we strongly encourage submissions from practitioners, particularly researchers at civil society groups or online platforms. Large online platforms have teams of trust and safety professionals conducting multimethod research into online harm, but these findings are rarely made public. We hope this journal becomes a space for these platforms to share this research so it may benefit smaller platforms.

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a no fee, fast peer review, and open access journal. Interested authors can submit an optional letter of inquiry to the editorial board to assess whether the paper is a good fit for the journal. For each issue's deadlines and submission guidelines, please visit the Submission webpage. 

In conjunction with the Journal, we also host the annual Trust and Safety Research Conference where we bring together 500+ academic researchers, industry professionals, civil society, and government officials to share and discuss trust and safety research every fall at Stanford University. 

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is published by the Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University and is grateful for generous support from the Omidyar Network.