The Israeli Association for Humor Studies has two refereed e-journals: Humor Mekuvvan: A Research Journal in Humor Studies, which is mainly in Hebrew, but also publishes papers in English, and has a board at the national level, and The Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal in English and possibly French.
This journal was established by Dr. Ephraim Nissan and Dr. Arie Sover. The journal has a wide and distinguished international advisory board, and aims at an international readership and pool of contributors. With respect to the veteran journal in the field, HUMOR, the Israeli Journal of Humor Research has, on the one hand, a somewhat wider scope, ideally making, for example, more room for literary or folklore studies; the journal is open to any disciplinary perspective that contributes to the scholarly understanding of humor. On the other hand, the Israeli Journal of Humor Research encourages the formation of specialist streams under its umbrella, such in the psychology of humor, or in computational humor.
Unlike the French journals Humoresques (in humor studies proper) and Ridiculosa (on cartoons), which solicit articles on a given theme year by year, The Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal solicit paper submissions on a miscellaneous basis, even though from time to time special issues or thematic sessions are possible. Unlike with HUMOR, which being a journal in print, has a backlog of papers waiting for publication, it is not expected that papers accepted for publications by The Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International would have to wait beyond the current year to be published. Similar considerations about the backlog apply as well to Studies in American Humor and Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor. It is therefore felt that, far from competing with the extant journals in humor research, The Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International would prove to be a useful outlet for research publication in humor studies, enabling a larger mass of worthy publications to appear within the domain on a yearly basis.
The Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal is open-access and free of charge for both the authors and the readers.
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