Geographica Helvetica
| Geographica Helvetica. Swiss journal for geography
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| description | Swiss trade journal |
| Area of Expertise | Human geography and physiogeography |
| language | German, English, French, Unknown language, Italian |
| publishing company | Copernicus Publications (until 2012 FO Fotorotar) |
| First edition | 1946 |
| Frequency of publication | four times a year |
| editor | Institute of Geography, University of Basel, Institute of Geography, University of Zurich, |
| Web link | www.geographica-helvetica.net |
| Article archive | [1] |
| ISSN |
0016-7312 |
The Geographica Helvetica. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geographie is a specialist journal for human geography and physiogeography . The articles are published in German, English, French and Italian.
content
The magazine publishes articles that promote geographical knowledge in all areas of the subject. Significant research contributions from the fields of general and applied geography , theoretical geography and subject didactics (geography as a school subject) appear in Geographica Helvetica. One focus is on work on Switzerland .
history
The forerunners of the publication operating under this name since 1946 were the annual reports of the Geographical-Ethnographic Society in Zurich (1899 / 1900–1916 / 1917), communications from the Geographical-Ethnographic Society of Zurich (1917 / 1918–1943 / 1945) and The Swiss Geographer - Le Géographe Suisse (1923 / 1924–1945).
After an organizational restructuring, the journal has been adapting the standards of major specialist journals with international expert reviews since 1997. An international appraiser - panel acts as advisory board and consists of representatives of the recognized geographical science.
Since January 2015 the journal has been published according to the open access model .
Sponsor
- Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)
- Geographical-Ethnographic Society Zurich
- Association of Geography Switzerland / Association Suisse de Géographie (ASG)
- University of Basel
Technical article
Selection of important specialist articles from the magazine:
- Dieter Steiner : The factor analysis - a modern statistical aid of the geographer for the objective spatial division and type formation . In: Geographica Helvetica 20, No. 1, 1965, pp. 20-34.
- Dietrich Bartels : Difficulties with the concept of space in geography . In: Geographica Helvetica, supplement 29, no. 2/3, 1974, pp. 7-21.
- Benno Werlen : Theses on the theoretical reorientation of social geographic research . In: Geographica Helvetica 41, No. 2, 1986, pp. 67-76.