Antarctica and the Arctic are of crucial importance to global security. Their governance and the patterns of human interactions there are increasingly contentious; mining, tourism, bioprospecting, and fishing are but a few of the many issues of contention, while environmental concerns such as melting ice sheets have a global impact.
The Polar Journal is a forum for the scholarly discussion of polar issues from a social science and humanities perspective and brings together the considerable number of specialists and policy makers working on these crucial regions across multiple disciplines. The journal welcomes papers on polar affairs from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities and is especially interested in publishing policy-relevant research.
Each issue of the journal either features articles from different disciplines on polar affairs or is a topical theme from a range of scholarly approaches.
Topics include: • Polar governance and policy • Polar history, heritage, and culture • Polar economics • Polar politics • Music, art, and literature of the polar regions • Polar tourism • Polar geography and geopolitics • Polar psychology • Polar archaeology
Manuscript types accepted: • Regular articles • Research reports • Opinion pieces • Book Reviews • Conference Reports
Peer review statement All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is via email to the Editors. Those interested in submitting a paper to the journal, or in discussing a submission with the editors, should contact the journal at: [email protected]. Please also read the Instructions for Authors for further submission details including word limits for each manuscript type.
Journal metrics
Usage
57K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.666 (2023) SNIP
0.317 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
13 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Executive Editor and Academic Editor: Anne-Marie Brady - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Book Review Editor: Hanne Nielsen - University of Tasmania, Australia
Conference Report Editors: Elizabeth Buchanan - Department of Defense, Australia Jan Jakub Solski - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Social Media Editor: Gabriela Roldan - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Regional Editors:
Antarctic: Marcus Haward - University of Tasmania, Australia
Arctic: Mark Nuttall - University of Oulu, Finland/University of Alberta, Canada
Australasia and Oceania Jane Verbitsky - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Developing states with polar interests: Azizan Bin Hj Abu Samah - University of Malaysia, Malaysia
North America: Becca Pincus - The Wilson Center, USA
Northeast Asia: JIN Dongmin - KOPRI, Republic of Korea
Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Baltic states: Aleksander Sergunin - St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Scandinavia: Florian Stammler - University of Lapland, Finland
South and Central America: Adrian Howkins - Colorado State University, USA
South and Southeast Asia: Sanjay Chaturvedi - South Asian University, India
Western Europe: Richard Powell - Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
Subject Area Editors:
Anthropology: Peter Schweitzer - University of Vienna, Austria
Arts and Literature: Elizabeth Leane - University of Tasmania, Australia
Economics: Joan Nymand Larsen - Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland
Energy: Daria Shopalova - University of Aberdeen, UK
Geography: Emma Stewart - Lincoln University, New Zealand
Geopolitics and Security: Duncan Depledge - University of Loughborough, UK
History: Urban Wråkberg - Barents Institute, Norway
Information Management and Social Services: Antti Syväjärvi - University of Lapland, Finland
Law: Kees Bastmeijer - Universiteit van Tilburg, the Netherlands
Media and Cultural Studies: Juan Francisco Salazar - University of Western Sydney, Australia
Political Science: Olav Schram Stokke - University of Oslo and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
Psychology: Gary Steel - Lincoln University, New Zealand
Science/Policy Interface: Akiho Shibata - Kobe University, Japan
Sociology: Pan Min - Tongji University, China
Tourism: Daniela Liggett - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Abstracting and indexing
The Polar Journal is abstracted/indexed in:
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Scopus
Open access
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Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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