GAIA (journal)

GAIA  
Discipline Environmental science, sustainability science
Language English, German
Edited by Irmi Seidl
Publication details
Publication history
 1992–present
Publisher
oekom verlag
Frequency Quarterly
Yes
License Creative-Commons-licence 3.0 Attribution
1.575
Standard abbreviations
GAIA
Indexing
ISSN 0940-5550
LCCN 94640130
OCLC no. 57378075
Links

GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society (Gaia: Ökologische Perspektiven für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft) is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1992. Its main focus is on background information, analyses, and solutions of environmental and sustainability problems. Since 2001 it is published by oekom verlag. Articles are in English and German. The editor-in-chief is Irmi Seidl (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).

Sections

The journal contains the following sections:

  • Magazine: reporting on ongoing environmental and sustainability research, environmental policy, and research promotion
  • Forum: original papers, including essays, expressions of opinion, and reactions to articles that have appeared in recent issues
  • Research: original scientific articles about environmental and sustainability research
  • Books: reviews of new publications

Masters Student Paper Award

In 2014 the GAIA Masters Student Paper Award was established. It recognizes outstanding results from young scientists in the field of environmental and sustainability research. The prize is awarded in cooperation with the Selbach-Umwelt-Stiftung.[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.397.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Selbach-Umwelt-Stiftung: GAIA Masters Student Paper Award, retrieved March 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts. CABI. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
  4. ↑ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
  5. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Environmental Sciences". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
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