About the Journal
The Siddhanta Journal of Knowledge Systems (SJKS) is an international, peer-reviewed, bi-annual, English-language, multidisciplinary academic journal established in 2026. Published in online format, it is dedicated to the study of knowledge systems across civilisations, disciplines and historical periods.
The Journal examines how civilisations, disciplines, institutions and communities generate, justify, measure, represent, transmit, preserve, revise and apply knowledge, and the conditions that make some bodies of knowledge more reliable, durable and useful than others.
Its scope encompasses classical, Indigenous, religious, scientific, technical and computational knowledge systems, from antiquity to the present. SJKS welcomes scholarship from all regions, languages and communities.
At the centre of the Journal’s approach is the study of the knowledge system as a whole, with attention to the structures, standards, practices and institutions through which knowledge is sustained.
A Meta-Knowledge Perspective
SJKS approaches knowledge itself as an object of inquiry, with attention to the warrants, standards, lifecycles, infrastructures and architectures through which knowledge is established, sustained and revised.
Across traditions and disciplines, the Journal is guided by three fundamental questions:
- What is claimed?
- On what basis, according to which standards, and by whom is the claim held?
- How does a knowledge system respond when a claim is challenged or shown to fail?
This meta-knowledge perspective focuses attention on the standards, structures and processes through which knowledge acquires validity, reliability and continuity.
Vision
To establish the study of knowledge systems — their foundations, standards, lifecycles, technologies and architectures — as a rigorous, shared field of inquiry across civilisations and disciplines.
The Journal’s vision is reflected in six aspirations:
- Understand knowledge systems in their own terms before comparison.
- Make the warrant behind claims explicit.
- Recognise non-Western knowledge systems as sources of method as well as objects of study.
- Examine texts, practices, institutions, technologies and communities as parts of an integrated system.
- Connect research on knowledge with contemporary science, education and artificial intelligence.
- Pursue knowledge with accountability to society, ecosystems and knowledge-holders.
Mission
To publish and connect rigorous research on how knowledge systems work across traditions, disciplines and eras, using transparent methods and an openly declared analytical lens.
The Journal advances its mission through nine commitments:
- Defining the knowledge system as a distinct unit of analysis;
- Maintaining academic neutrality through declared methods and evidence;
- Building a shared meta-language across knowledge traditions;
- Widening the methodological base through diverse epistemic approaches;
- Requiring source discipline through appropriate and traceable primary sources;
- Institutionalising critical dialogue through engagement with the strongest counter-position;
- Connecting theory and practice through testable and applied research;
- Upholding research ethics through consent and respect for knowledge-holder rights; and
- Serving education and policy through rigorous scholarship.
Readership
SJKS brings together scholars and practitioners concerned with how knowledge is produced, organised, transmitted and evaluated. Its readership includes philosophers and epistemologists; historians and sociologists of knowledge; information and data scientists; AI and knowledge-engineering researchers; educators and curriculum designers; philologists and textual scholars; anthropologists; policy practitioners; and knowledge-holding communities.
Scope Boundaries
SJKS does not function primarily as a journal of intellectual history, area studies, cultural advocacy, comparative religion, object-level disciplinary research or technical AI research.
Scholarship from these areas is welcome where it contributes directly to the study of a knowledge system — its methods, standards, institutions, practices, technologies, mechanisms of validation or modes of transmission.
Work from any of these areas is therefore considered within scope when it contributes to the Journal’s central question: how does the relevant knowledge system work?