This category is for academic and scientific journals owned, sponsored, or otherwise associated with colleges and universities. Journals that are published by a separate publisher on behalf of a university or its affiliated parties should be categorized under that publisher, too (see Category:Academic journals by publisher). Journals that are published directly by its associated university should be categorized instead under Category:Academic journals published by universities and colleges only.

If the publisher is a university press, that fact does not necessarily affect the above categorization; e.g., the journal Harvard Theological Review is a member of both Category:Cambridge University Press academic journals and Category:Harvard University academic journals (but not of Category:Harvard University Press academic journals).