About the Journal

Journal of Trust Studies (JOTS) is an international, bi-annual, open access journal focused on the theories and practices of trust. It welcomes academic research and conceptual papers on all aspects of (dis)trust.

JOTS is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. 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 prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Aim and Scope

JOTS publishes conceptual and empirical articles of interest to scholars, consultants, and public policy makers. Articles' topics include, but certainly are not limited to:

- online/digital (dis)trust

- credibility judgement

- (dis)trust typologies and conceptions

- (dis)trust in systems/technology

- media (dis)trust

- institutional/organizational (dis)trust

- psychology of (dis)trust

- sociology of (dis)trust

- social capital

- trust theories

- social/general/public (dis)trust

- trust in elites

- political trust

- interpersonal (dis)trust

- trust in government(s)