The Proceedings of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study publish selected outputs from conferences, lecture series, and writing residencies hosted by the Institute, with the aim of disseminating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research of high scientific and societal relevance.

1. Scope of the Editorial Policy

The review and selection procedures described below apply specifically to contributions published in the Paris IAS Ideas series. This series is dedicated to mature, high-impact ideas and concepts developed within the framework of the Institute’s writing residencies and invitation-only programs.

All other contributions published in the Proceedings (conference papers, lectures, workshop outputs, and related materials) are subject to a basic editorial review only. These publications reflect the everyday scientific activities of the Institute and function primarily as an archival record. In this respect, the Proceedings’ non–Paris IAS Ideas contributions function as an academic archive comparable to platforms such as SSRN, arXiv, RePEc, or HAL: they document and disseminate ongoing scholarly work associated with the Institute’s everyday scientific activities.

2. Principle of Review (Paris IAS Ideas series)

The Proceedings operate an upstream peer review model for the Paris IAS Ideas series. Review is conducted not on a completed manuscript, but on an initial publication proposal, following nomination by the Editorial Fellows. This process is comparable to peer review for book chapters: it evaluates the originality, relevance, coherence, and potential impact of the proposed contribution before the final text is written.

3. Collective Review by the Editorial Fellows

All members of the Editorial Fellows Board examine each nominated proposal. They collectively provide detailed scholarly comments and recommendations. Authors are required to respond to these comments and to take them into account when preparing their final manuscript. This collective review process is designed to strengthen conceptual clarity, interdisciplinary accessibility, and intellectual rigor.

4. Final Publication

After this proposal-based review and revision phase, authors produce the final paper. The revised and completed text is then published in the Proceedings without a second round of anonymous peer review, on the basis that intellectual validation has already occurred at the level of the project and its argument.

5. Editorial Board

The Editorial Board is constituted by the Paris Institute for Advanced Study Editorial Fellows, which is an international group of top scholars and practitioners in the humanities and social sciences and related disciplines.

Editorial Committee

Editorial Fellows

…and 17 other leading scholars in the social sciences and humanities worldwide who have chosen to remain anonymous.

6. Editorial Philosophy

This model reflects the Institute’s mission: to support ambitious ideas with the potential to become influential seminal pieces beyond their own disciplines, and to privilege conceptual maturity and interdisciplinary dialogue. The Proceedings thus combine two complementary functions: a curated space for conceptually validated ideas and a structured archive of scientific life at the Institute.