Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Gaia Edited by Verena Winiwarter Publication history 1992–present | Language English, German Publisher oekom verlag | |
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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:
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".