Later this year, on 27th November 2019, we celebrate five years of communicating landscape research across disciplines. I like to thank all who have contributed as editors, reviewers and authors since the launch of the journal. I am particularly happy with the quality of the peer-review comments that we have received on submitted manuscripts. Many authors have specifically highlighted the value of the dedicated and insightful peer-review they received. I am also glad to see that the articles we have published are gaining attention and citations.
We are still a relatively new open access journal run by academics, based on a non-profit model, and will continue to combine high-quality peer-review with low-cost author fees – and we can increase the number of papers we publish each year! Our current aim is to reach a publication frequency of at least ten contributions per year. Hence, with this said, I invite you to submit your work to Rural Landscapes, and to suggest to colleagues to do the same.
Proposals for themed collections of articles (special issues) are also very welcome. Should you have a suggested theme, conference proceedings, or existing collection of research output, then please get in touch. Themes can have a wide or narrow focus, and an advantage with publishing themed collections with us is that they can include articles from different disciplines (using different writing styles) as long as they fit with the focus and scope of the journal.
Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History is indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and has been awarded their 'seal of approval', which means that we agree to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. The journal is also indexed and listed as level 1 in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers and the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The journal is easy to find via databases such as Google Scholar and EBSCO Knowledge and receives over 7,000 article pages views per year. The homepage has regular traffic with approx. 350 visitors per month. The most popular articles have been read/downloaded more than 3,000 times.
The journal is published by Stockholm University Press and supported by a grant from The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), which allows us to combine high-quality peer-review and copy edit service with low-cost open access. We use the grant to cover 50% of the Author Processing Charges (APCs) so that authors currently pay only £187.50. The funding can most often be sourced from research grants or library open access funds held by your institution. The journal is compliant with most funders’ requirements. If you have not already spoken to your institution regarding potential open access funds, then we recommend that you do so, as they are now a standard option.
A full list of the journal publications can be found here.
All the best
Lowe Börjeson, Editor-in-Chief
Download the letter and call for papers in PDF format here
Posted on 18 Feb 2019
The journal is published by Stockholm University Press and supported by a grant from The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), which allows us combine high quality peer-review and copy edit service with low cost open access. We use the grant to cover 50% of the Author Processing Charges (APCs), so that authors currently pay only £187.50. This can most often be sourced from research grants or library open access funds held by your institution. If you have not already spoken to your institution regarding potential open access funds, then we recommend that you do so, as they are now a common option (and will show your library that there is a demand for such a fund).
Other good news is that Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History is now indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and has been awarded their 'seal of approval', which means that we agree to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. The journal is also indexed and listed as level 1 in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The journal receives over 10,000 pages views per year, with the most accessed publication being read/downloaded over 2000 times.
Our main goal now is to increase the number of papers we publish each year in line with our focus and scope. Hence, with this said, I invite you to submit your work to Rural Landscapes, and also to suggest to colleagues that they do the same.
We also invite proposed special issues and guest editors to publish a themed collection of articles within the journal. Should you have a suggested theme, conference proceedings, or existing collection of research output then please get in touch and we can discuss the options available. Themes can have a wide or narrow focus, so long as they fit with the scope of the journal.
A full list of the journal publications can be found here.
All the best
Lowe Börjeson, Editor in Chief
Posted on 15 May 2017