Our Journal

Landscape Research, our academic journal, is a fully peer-reviewed and Impact-Factor listed journal containing articles, critical review essays, photo essays and book review forums.

The Journal’s global coverage and wide-ranging disciplinary nature makes it an ideal resource for both landscape academics and practitioners. It is uniquely placed to cover all multi, inter and transdisciplinary research encompassing the breadth of landscape studies.

Published by Taylor & Francis, the journal is well-respected and solidly established with a consistently growing readership, impact factor and citation rates. Our experienced Editorial team, led by Professor Hannes Palang, has a global coverage and outlook with representatives across three continents and a range of expertise.

LRG members receive online and paper copies of the journal and access to the entire archive of articles from 1977. View the current issue online.


 

 

Ethos of Care

The Editors strive towards an encouraging and constructive relationship with its authors and believes in an “ethos of care”1 through the peer review process, which is already demonstrated by its experienced panel of reviewers. It is also committed to encouraging and enabling inclusive academic debate and has produced an Inclusive Practices: Language and Writing Guideline. This document has been developed to help authors avoid using discriminatory language and/or marginalising practices when preparing their manuscripts.

Landscape Research Journal is unique in academic publishing to have an Academic Support Editor, Dr Paul Brindley, whose role is to provide an additional layer of support for new authors of innovative, original submissions who require assistance in navigating the peer review process. We welcome good quality manuscripts relating to all aspects of landscape. The guidelines on the submission process can be found here.

  • Impact factor for 2023: 1.7
  • CiteScore for 2023: 3.7
  • 204,000 article downloads in 2023
  • 9 days average from submission to first decision
  • Eight issues a year, including special guest-edited themed issues 


1
 Vera Vicenzotti & Emma Waterton (2021) Practicing care in a global pandemic, Landscape Research, 46:1, 1-7, DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2021.1873485

Editorial Team

Key Contacts

Editorial Assistance Team: journal@landscaperesearch.org
Book Review Inquiries: laura.menatti@gmail.com
Professor Hannes Palang

Editor-In-Chief

Centre for Landscape and Culture, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia

lreditor@landscaperesearch.org

Professor Emma Waterton

Consulting Editor

Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, University of York, UK

Dr Andrew Butler

Associate Editor

Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning & Management, SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

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Professor Veerle Van Eetvelde

Associate Editor

Department of Geography, Research Unit Landscape & People, Ghent University, Belgium

Dr. Merham Keleg

Associate Editor

Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning Department. Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Dr Gillian Lawson

Associate Editor

School of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Dr Laura Menatti

Book Reviews Editor

KLI, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Klosterneuburg, Austria

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Dr Vanicka Arora

Pre-Editor Assistant

Heritage and Politics, University of Stirling, UK

vanicka.arora@stir.ac.uk

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Dr Hayley Saul

Pre-Editor Assistant

Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, University of York, UK


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Zannah Matson

Social Media Editor

Program in Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

zannah.matson@colorado.edu

Dr Paul Brindley

Academic Support Editor

Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK

p.brindley@sheffield.ac.uk

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Editorial management

Canterbury, UK

journal@landscaperesearch.org