CALL FOR PAPERS | Special Issue

CALL FOR PAPERS | Special Issue

The International Journal of Body, Mind, and Culture (IJBMC), currently indexed in Scopus, invites submissions for a forthcoming Special Issue:

"When AI Enters the Body–Mind–Culture Ecology: Embodied signals, cultural meaning-making, and relational mental health care"

We welcome interdisciplinary computational, clinical, qualitative, theoretical, and cross-cultural contributions exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, human experience, and mental healthcare.

SPECIAL ISSUE THEMES

01 Computational psychosomatics & clinical conditions
02 Multimodal, embodied & behavioral assessment
03 Culture, multilingual meaning, lived experience & health humanities
04 AI-supported relational care & interventions
05 Identity, everyday well-being & health education
06 Cross-cultural validity, equity, ethics & responsible innovation

Guest Editors:
Hamidreza Marateb: Associate Professor of Biomedical engineering, University of Isfahan,

Hamidreza Namazi: Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

 

KEY DATES

Submission Opens: October 1, 2026
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2027
Publication Date: March 2027