Fennia

FENNIA is a non-profit peer-review journal published by the Geographical Society of Finland since 1889. It is an international scientific publication dedicated to all fields of geography with attentiveness to northern dimensions. In 2010, FENNIA became an open access electronic journal with two yearly issues. It is devoted to a fast publication process, including the open access publication of forthcoming papers before inclusion in an issue. 

FENNIA publishes papers of high scholarly merit capable of making theoretical and methodological contributions to geographical scholarship. We appreciate in depth empirical enquiry from different parts of the world but do not publish descriptive analyses with merely empirical relevance. While FENNIA welcomes manuscripts that engage in multidisciplinary discussions, they are expected to draw from and contribute to contemporary debates in geography. The journal seeks to take forward geographical research and discussion in a critical and responsible spirit. In addition to individual contributions, we welcome proposals for special sections and dialogical book reviews.

Submissions are welcomed in three categories: research papers, reviews and essays, and reflections. Research papers are original full-length articles that make a significant contribution to geographical scholarship. Reviews and essays may introduce empirical, theoretical or methodological insights, and they are peer reviewed by request. We also selectively publish literature reviews and book review dialogues. Reflections section includes commentaries, debates, discussion pieces, interventions and other argumentative short texts related to contemporary issues, including commentaries to FENNIA articles stemming from open review processes. 

The journal has no submission or article processing charges, and authors retain all rights to their work throughout the publication process and after publication. Metadata (title, abstract, keywords) on published articles is included on the languages requested by authors for accessibility. We offer the possibility for parallel translations where authors are responsible for all translation work. In collaboration with our sister journal Terra, we selectively invite translations of peer reviewed articles in Finnish and Swedish. We also offer the opportunity to publish short, popularized texts based on research articles through the Versus platform that aims to make research more visible, dialogical and effective in societies.

The fully open access FENNIA publications are under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The journal is member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows the peer review standards set by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV). It is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and is part of the Free Journal Network and the Open Journals Colletive (OJC). The main language of the journal is English.