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GAIA
Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Frequency of publication:
four issues per year
GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society is a peer-reviewed inter- and transdisciplinary journal for scientists and other interested parties concerned with the causes and analyses of environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions.
The journal offers first-hand information on state-of-the-art environmental and sustainability sciences and on current solutions to environmental problems. Well-known editors, reviewers, and authors work to ensure a unique inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue – in a comprehensible style.
GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society ...
... is a community-based journal.
... is published by oekom, an independent publisher based in Germany and committed to high environmental standards
(see www.oekom.de and #natuerlichoekom).
... follows the Green Road to Open Access under a policy that is fully compliant with Plan S (www.coalition-s.org):
- articles can be archived with no embargo period,
- authors retain copyright,
- articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC BY 4.0.
... has been set up with LOCKSS and CLOCKSS for long-term digital preservation
... has a quick turnaround and minimizes time from submission to publication.
... has a proven record of high-quality articles, a well-established international reviewer network, and a reputation of academic excellence.
... articles are chosen for their scientific content as well as their ease of comprehension and relevance to readers of various scientific disciplines.
... is published in colour print and provides an exceptional opportunity to illustrate scientific work in the form of pictures, charts, or maps.
... articles can be published in both English and German.
GAIA Newsletter
The GAIA Newsletter is published quarterly. Please click here >> to subscribe.
About the Journal
Topics
Transdisciplinary Environmental Research • Sustainability Science • Global Change • Research Integration and Implementation • Sustainable Energy Systems, »Energiewende« • Transformation /Transition Research • Sustainability in Higher Education • Ecosystem Services • Socio-Ecological Systems • Environmental Governance • Environmental Policy • Environmental Planning • Natural Resources Management • Biodiversity • Land Use (Change) • Protected Areas
Bibliometrics
GAIA encourages applying due care in interpreting the following bibliometric indicators. GAIA has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), pointing to flaws in the calculation and use of the Journal Impact Factor. GAIA would also like to point to the »Leiden manifesto for research metrics«, which states ten principles to better guide research evaluation.
- GAIA's Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is 1.87 (2019). The JIR measures the total citation frequency.
Basis of the calculation are all journals listed in the Web of Science; GAIA is listed both in the Science Citation Index expanded (SCIE) and in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). - The 5-year Journal Impact Factor is 1.75 (2019).
- The SJR SCImago Journal Ranking – which provides a quantitative and qualitative measure of the journal's impact - is 0.453 (2019).
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) is 0.559 (2019). SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field, using Scopus data.
- The Eigenfactor – which rates the total importance of a scientific journal according to the number of incoming citations – is 0.00062 (2019).
- GAIA's Document H-Index is 27 (2019) – the measure expresses the number of GAIA articles (h) that have received at least h citations. It quantifies both GAIA's scientific productivity and scientific impact.
- The CiteScore – the average citations per document in a 2 year period – is 2.2 (2019).
Indexing/Abstracting
GAIA is indexed/abstracted in:
Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science), Scopus, Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, EBSCO, GeoRef, CAB Abstracts, BIOSIS, CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Environment Index, SCImago, ProQuest, OCLC, Academic OneFile.
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
GAIA recognizes its responsibilities in upholding ethical standards and pursues best practices in scholarly publishing. GAIA supports the recommendations of the German Research Foundation (DFG) regarding Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice. GAIA also fully supports the Core Practices, Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). A selection of key points is provided in our Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement (in preparation).
GAIA will take all appropriate measures against publication malpractices, including alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum or, in the most severe cases, the complete retraction of the affected work.
GAIA has been supported by: ETH Board | Branco Weiss † | Eawag | Altana AG | Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung | Velux Stiftung | Stiftung Sonnenwiese | Binding Stiftung | Ulrich Müller-Herold | Paul Schiller Stiftung
Gaîa is an ancient Greek word for the Earth:
The word Gaîa touches on a myth that affected the beginning of philosophy and science. »Mother Earth« is a metaphor for bearing and conceiving, giving and taking, up and down. A guarantor of the cycle of life, Gaîa represents the foundation of the law that is preliminary to human dispositions.
The word Gaîa touches on a myth that affected the beginning of philosophy and science. »Mother Earth« is a metaphor for bearing and conceiving, giving and taking, up and down. A guarantor of the cycle of life, Gaîa represents the foundation of the law that is preliminary to human dispositions.
Submission
Do you seek to publish research papers concerned with environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions? The journal GAIA is the right venue for your interests! Here you can find the Call for Contributions.
Papers submitted to GAIA are peer-reviewed. Currently, the rejection rate is about 50 to 60 percent.
If you would like to submit a manuscript regarding the topics environment or sustainability, kindly consider the following guidelines:
Guide for Authors >>
Guidelines for Design Reports >>
Guidelines for Book Announcements >>
Submissions
For article submissions, please proceed to our journal management system >>.
Special Issues / Focus Sections
If you are interested in publishing a special issue or a focus section, please contact the editorial office at gaia@oekom.de.
Information on conditions and fees can be found here >>.
EndNote
If you are using the reference management software EndNote, you may use the following EndNote-Style for formatting your references:
GAIA-EndNote-Style >>.
Guidelines for Reviewers
If you are reviewing articles for GAIA, please consider the guidelines for reviewers >>.
Please find our recent list of reviewers here >>.
Editorial Office, Editorial Board and Reviewers
Editorial Board, Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board:
Have a look at the Editorial Board here >>.
Reviewers 2019:
Have a look at the GAIA Reviewers 2019 here >>.
Editorial Office:
Martina Blum
Born 1964 in Munich (Germany), studied history 
in Munich and Tübingen. She holds a PhD from the Technische Universität München (TUM). She worked as research associate at the former Department of the History of Technology, TUM, was managing editor of the German journal Technikgeschichte and exhibit review editor for the American journal Technology & Culture.
Since 2012, she has been working for GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society as subject editor in the Research section.
Dr. Martina Blum
oekom verlag
Waltherstraße 29
80337 Munich
Germany
Tel..: +49 89 / 54 41 84 - 41
Fax: +49 89 / 54 41 84 - 49
E-Mail: blum@oekom.de
Almut Jödicke
Born 1971 in Ruit (Germany), studied environmental sciences at ETH Zurich. After her studies she worked as a research assistant in the Human Ecology group of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland. Her PhD thesis, written at the Laboratory for Technical Chemistry, Safety and Environmental Technology Group (ETH Zurich), deals with life-cycle impact assessment of textile finishing and use.
Since 1999, she has been working for GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society as subject editor in the Research section.
Dr. Almut Jödicke
ETH Zentrum
PO Box CAB 42
8093 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 52 / 222 28 05
E-Mail: redgaia@env.ethz.ch
Tobias Mickler
Born 1975 in Halle/Westfalen (Germany), studied environmental sciences in Lüneburg, Germany and Canterbury, England. He worked as a public relations officer for WPR Communication, Berlin, and as a research assistant at the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin.
Since 2009, he has been working for GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society as managing editor.
Tobias Mickler
oekom verlag
Managing Editor
Waltherstraße 29
80337 Munich
Germany
Tel.: +49 76 72 / 342 98 18
E-Mail: mickler@oekom.de
Ulrike Sehy
Born 1970 in Zweibrücken (Germany), studied physical geography and soil science at the University of Trier and the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She worked as a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Soil Ecology of the Helmholtz Zentrum München and obtained a PhD degree from the Technische Universität München.
In 2002, she joined oekom verlag as managing editor of GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. Since 2011, she has been head of the journals department at oekom verlag.
Dr. Ulrike Sehy
oekom verlag
Hagenbuchrain 13
8047 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 43 / 311 07 85
E-Mail: sehy@oekom.ch
Open Access and Copyright
oekom is happy to support open access, the practice of providing unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly information.
Open Access Policy for GAIA
Green Open Access
- GAIA follows the Green Road to Open Access
- Authors can archive their article for free public use on personal websites and/or in any open access repository immediately after publication.
- No embargo period
- Authors retain copyright: All articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0.
- We strongly encourage researchers to deposit their articles in a repository. Information on repositories can be found here: https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2016/05/31/what-is-a-repository/
This policy is fully compliant with Plan S.
GAIA Hybrid Option
Additionally, we offer GAIA Hybrid Option: With this option authors can publish their articles with full open access via our full text content provider IngentaConnect against a basic charge.
Pricing for GAIA Hybrid Option:
Our services include organization of the review and publishing process, copyediting, layout and graphics. GAIA articles are abstracted and indexed in various scientific databases (including Web of Science; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Science; Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Science Citation Index; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), CAB Abstracts, EBSCO and Scopus) and our editors attend relevant conferences and meetings to market our journal and thus the publications of our authors. Further costs are involved in the process of printing, distribution and hosting. To maintain our high standards of quality while covering our costs we offer GAIA Hybrid Option per published article as follows:
- Forum section: 400 EUR (VAT not included)
- Research section: 850 EUR (VAT not included).
Copyright
Articles in GAIA are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Under this license, anyone may access, copy, distribute, or reuse these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.
Read GAIA online
GAIA is available in full text at IngentaConnect >>.
How you benefit from your GAIA electronic edition:
- You're given access to all GAIA full texts in PDF or HTML formats.
- You can search by author, abstract or keyword.
- With »Receive new issue alert« you will receive an e-mail notification every time a new GAIA issue becomes available. Please register here.
- »Reference linking« takes you from one article to other referenced articles with just one click.
How to access GAIA online:
AS A PRIVATE USER
1. Go to www.ingentaconnect.com >> and click on »Sign in now.« Fill out the form with your personal data and create the username and password of your choice. Then click on »Register.«
2. Go to »Activating personal subscriptions« and click on »Add.« Select GAIA from the list of publications available from IngentaConnect. Activate the field to the left of GAIA and enter your eight-digit order number as your subscription number (your order number can be found in your subscription confirmation letter). Then click on »Add.«
3. You'll then receive an e-mail confirming your inquiry. That's all there is to it: You're free to enjoy your full access!
AS AN INSTITUTION
Institutions must register with IngentaConnect via the following link: www.ingentaconnect.com/register/institutional >>. Follow the instructions to receive access to the relevant area of IP addresses.
Should you have any questions or problems, please send an E-Mail to help@ingentaconnect.com.
Your contact at oekom is Tobias Mickler (mickler@oekom.de).
Services to the Transdisciplinary Community
Toolkits for Transdisciplinarity
What can transdisciplinarians learn from each other and from other communities of practice about methods for transdisciplinary research?
The Toolkits for Transdisciplinarity series – published between mid-2015 and mid-2017 in the scientific journal GAIA – Ecological Perspectives in Science and Society – highlights existing compilations of methods useful for transdisciplinary research.
»Toolkits for Transdisciplinarity«: PDF-Download >>
Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research
The series Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research published open-access in GAIA highlights existing ways of approaching transdisciplinary research. Five frameworks focus on transdisciplinary research as a whole and four concentrate on significant parts of the transdisciplinary research process. All nine frameworks are compiled in a flyer you can download here:
»Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research«: PDF-Download >>
GAIA and the i2Insights blog
GAIA has a productive long-term partnership with the blog Integration and Implementation Insights (also known as i2Insights, https://i2insights.org).
i2Insights is a community weblog for researchers who are interested in sharing concepts and methods for understanding and acting on complex societal and environmental problems (problems like global climate change and inequality).
The blog is run by the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S, https://i2s.anu.edu.au) team, headed by Gabriele Bammer, member of GAIA’s Scientific Advisory Board, and Peter Deane, at The Australian National University.
If your GAIA paper is about a research integration or implementation concept or method, you may receive an invitation to contribute to the i2Insights blog and to further the reach of your work through a blog post. You should also feel free to contact the blog editors at: gabriele.bammer@anu.edu.au.
GAIA will make your paper free to access for a month after the blog post is published, unless the paper is already open access.
To see all blog posts from the partnership with GAIA: https://i2insights.org/tag/partner-gaia-journal >>
Awards
Every year, GAIA selects the winners of the Masters Student Paper Award and the Best Paper Award.
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Tel.: +49 89 / 54 41 84 - 17
Fax: +49 89 / 54 41 84 - 49
E-Mail: fricke@oekom.de
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