About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Geoforum Perspektiv is a peer-reviewed journal published online by Geoforum Danmark and Aalborg University Open Publishing for the association's members with a content of scientific, peer-reviewed articles and other articles. Geoforum Danmark is an interest-based professional association for everyone who is professionally involved in a range of applications of geographic information and data. Members range from private companies to public institutions to researchers, educators and private individuals.
The aim of the journal is to disseminate knowledge among professional users of geographic information as well as research and innovation in the field.
The journal is indexed in DOAJ (Dictionary of Open Access Journal). The journal is also indexed in the Kanalregisteret (Norwegian list).
Under the main heading Geographical information, the online publications work with a specific theme, which serves for a thorough and in-depth review of the subject area.
The journal's goal is to be a professional forum for research, innovation and knowledge sharing within the fields of GIS, geodata and geographic information. The journal publishes papers on these fields and is aimed at professional users from the Danish Geodata industry, teachers, researchers and students. The journal receives contributions from Danish and foreign authors.
Contributions can have a lot of technical content and interest. They can be contributions with methodological, theoretical emphasis or contributions that take a broader view of geodata and their use. This could be, e.g., mapping, didactics, planning, etc.
Contributions can cover topics from the entire geodata "food chain", i.e. everything from geodata collection, to geodatabase management, geodata analysis, and to geodata dissemination. GIS software and GIS project management aspects are also welcome.
The journal is published with three publications per year. One publication is a theme publication focusing on an editorial topic (please see: announcements), one publication contains articles from Geoforum's annual conference, Kortdage, and one publication is a collection of articles that did not find their way into the other two publications.
The editorial board consists of members from all Danish universities.
While guest editors or special issue editors are responsible for the content and management of their specific issues, the editor-in-chief holds the ultimate responsibility for the journal's overall content and integrity. This ensures consistency and adherence to the journal's standards and policies.
The journal wants to contribute to discussion and innovation in the use and understanding of geographic information, and welcomes contributions in this area.
Article types in Perspektiv
The journal operates with two types of papers:
1) Peer-reviewed papers, which are subject to peer review (double blind peer review)
2) Other papers, e.g. debate posts, reviews, guides and others.
See more details in the author guidelines
Peer Review Process
The peer review process is a double blind review. Scientific papers submitted to Geoforum Perspektiv are reviewed by two reviewers chosen by the editor, with advice from the editorial board, on the basis of their recognized knowledge in the field addressed by the paper. Thus it is often necessary to receive both reviews before an objective decision is made on publication.
The Journal requires authors not to submit their works to other publishers for review while the article proceeds through the Geoforum Perpektiv review process.
Open Access Policy
The Journal is published online free of charge and adheres to the Open Access Initiative, which aims to facilitate the dissemination of electronic content. Authors submitting their work will therefore be required to submit harvestable metadata. Authors publishing on Geoforum Perspektiv retain copyright to their articles and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0 when submitting their work.
There are no Article Publishing Charges for authors publishing in the journal.
Publication ethics and Privacy Statement
Geoforum Perspektiv adhere to the COPE guidelines for best practice.
Personal information entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. For additional information please refer to Privacy and cookie policy of Aalborg University.
Platform
The online edition of the journal is published by Geoforum and Aalborg University Open Publishing.
Journal History
Editor-in-chief 2002-2008: Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University
Editor-in-chief 2008-2011: Hans Skov-Petersen, Copenhagen University
Editor-in-chief 2011-2022 : Line Hvingel, AAU/COWI/KL
Editor-in-chief 2022 - : Jesper Høi Skovdal, Geoforum
