All the publications below are, in my opinion, useful for PhD researchers to publish in. Thse publications with *** are widely respected, the others are useful resources and gaining in credibility but maybe newer or currently less highly ranked.
*** Leonardo Music Journal. Composers, musicians and researchers are invited to send proposals and papers for publication consideration in Leonardo Music Journal. The calls-for-papers are intended to create an identifiable focus for each issue, but should not be regarded as a limited set of assigned topics or as specific questions to be answered. They should serve instead as springboards for personally relevant writing and are open to individual interpretation. Link.
*** Leonardo, the journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology is what you might call a serious publication. Since 1968 it has been a forum for professional artists to describe and discuss their work, a brief that makes it something of a rarity. Link.
*** Leonardo Transactions is a section in the print art and technology journal Leonardo that publishes shorter, fully refereed papers in a fast track to disseminating key new results, ideas and developments in practice. Papers are solicited under the stated aims and scope of Leonardo, but are restricted to two pages of published material. A fast referee process is employed in which the result is restricted to “accept” or “reject” a submission. If a submission is rejected, the submission of a revised version will be treated as a new paper. Link.
ARTNODES is an e-journal, the aim of which is to analyse the intersections between art, science and technology. ARTNODES publishes contributions that focus on the reflection and study of the intersections between art, science and technology, from a formal, historical and conceptual point of view. The primary publishing language of Artnodes is Spanish. But you can send papers in English. At the discretion of the editorial board, some papers may also be translated to Spanish, English or Catalan. Likewise, the title, abstract and keywords of all articles are published in Spanish, English and Catalan. Link.
A Peer Reviewed Journal About (APRJA) is an open-access research journal that addresses the ever-shifting thematic frameworks of digital culture. APRJA stands for “A Peer-Reviewed Journal About” and invites the addition of a research topic to address what is considered to be key aspects of contemporary digital art and culture (and thereby complete the title of each journal issue). We take a particular interest in software studies, media archaeology, platform politics, interface criticism, computational culture and artistic research. Link.
As an open-access research journal, APRJA is freely available without charge to the user and his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission to authors or the publisher (under a creative commons license).
The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines. With the aim of displaying practice in a manner that respects artists’. Link.