Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica is an international platform devoted to the research and current theory of Ethnology and Folklore. The journal is published once a year in the third quarter. Our journal’s aim is to provide an international forum for researchers where the 21st century’s cultural and social questions can be discussed with the hope of shedding light and understanding their wider historical-geographical-social-cultural background and presenting one or two answers to these increasing challenges. The topics of cultural, linguistic and religious co-existence among communities, assimilation, acculturation and the integration processes have never gained such an importance as nowadays. That is the reason why we think that Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica can fulfill a role of moderator and intermediary among the international contributors due to its heritage of more than four decades (and three more if we take into consideration the opening of the Department of Ethnography in 1949 in the University of Debrecen) of analyzing the intellectual and material heritage of the region. Since the beginning, the department focuses its studies on the methodology of field trip interconnected with the theory of cultural anthropology and we have a long history of investigating the different communities of the Carpathian Basin, emphasizing the topics of diversity and cohabitation of cultural, ethnical, and religious groups and minorities. We believe that the conclusions we can draw from them can be perfectly extrapolated to other intercultural relationships and communities of Europe. 

The journal has five principal columns: Cultural Anthropology, Historical Ethnology, European Ethnology, Folklore, and Cultural Geography. Consequently, we accept submissions which use ethnological, folkloristic and cultural anthropological research methods and focus on the above-mentioned topics and areas.

The journal accepts articles in English and German and the authors should follow in them the requirements posted on the submission guidelines. Once having received the manuscripts, all these submissions go under an internal editorial review, and if they meet the requirements, they are sent for double blind peer review. The reviewing process is supervised by the deputy editor who is closest to the contribution discipline and who has been nominated to lead the article through the whole publishing process. Comments from the reviewers are sent to the executive editor who takes the decision of accepting, accepting with revisions or rejecting the manuscript. Taking the reviewers' comments into consideration, the executive editor rejects manuscripts for the following reasons: 1.) The manuscript's topic falls outside of the aims and scope of the journal; 2.) The manuscript is incomplete and/or lacks a significant, novel contribution to the field. The executive editor provides information in his or her response letter explaining what parts of the manuscript require minor or major changes or needs to be substantially improved before it can be accepted. Also, he provides information why the manuscript was not considered for publishing. This information might be helpful to consider when choosing another journal. The manuscript that has been rejected will be sent back to the author so that it can be submitted to other jounals. The editor's decision is final. We strive to complete the review process within three months of receipt.

We only accept submissions which show originality, are not be plagiarized, and have not been published before. The paper must not be under consideration elsewhere and the co-authors have approved the final publication process. To avoid plagiarism, the journal uses a plagiarism detection software at all times. 

The process from the acceptance of the article until the publication takes no more than six months: the current deadline of the submission of each issue is published in the Call for paper, we kindly ask the authors to respect that date.

Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available to the user or his or her institution without charge. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking for the publisher's or the author's prior permission. The journal does not charge Article Processing Charges (APC) or submission fees and neither does it pay any royalties.

Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica is indexed by ERIH PLUS, the Committee on Ethnography of the I. Section of Linguistics and Literary Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and MATARKA (Hungarian Periodicals Table of Contents Database).

The published volumes are archived by Sherpa Romeo and DEA (Archive of the University of Debrecen), the latest issues are available on our website (here), and the issues published before 2020 here.