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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
  
Gaia

Edited by
  
Verena Winiwarter

Publication history
  
1992–present

Language
  
English, German

Publisher
  
oekom verlag

GAIA (journal)

Discipline
  
Environmental science, sustainability science

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 Verena Winiwarter (Klagenfurt University).

Contents

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 Leuphana University of Lüneburg and the Selbach-Umwelt-Stiftung.

    Abstracting and indexing

    The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

    According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.250, ranking it 50th out of 96 journals in the category "Environmental Sciences".

    References

    GAIA (journal) Wikipedia
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