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Geographical Research
Geographical Research, formerly Australian Geographical Studies, is the internationally refereed journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers, the national body representing academic and professional geographers in Australia. The primary objective of Geographical Research is to advance geographical research across the discipline and especially to encourage research at the human-physical geography interface. The journal also supports the Institute’s Study Groups in Cultural Geography; Economic Geography; Environmental Sustainability; GIScience, Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Indigenous Issues; Political Geography; Rural Studies and Urban geography. The journal includes academic papers, research reports, and book reviews. Short papers from practising (professional) geographers, and geographers in education, are particularly welcome.
Geographical Research is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Institute of Australian Geographers, through Editors appointed by the Council of the Institute.
For instructions for authors, contents, subscription and all other information, visit:
www.blackwellpublishing.com/ages
Editors
Arthur Conacher, University of Western Australia
George Curry, Curtin University of Technology
Roy Jones, Curtin University of Technology
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Roy Jones, Arthur Conacher and George Curry will retire as Editors at the end of 2009. To mark the end of nine years as Editors they have compiled a report on changes to the journal over these years that will be of interest to many readers. The report can be read by clicking here.
From the beginning of 2010 a new Editorial team will manage Geographical Research. The Editor-in-Chief will be Professor Phillip O’Neill (University of Western Sydney), and the other members of the team will be Clive Forster (Flinders University), Brian Finlayson and Wayne Stephenson (both of Melbourne University). All manuscripts and editorial inquiries should now be sent to:
Professor Phillip O’Neill
Urban Research Centre
University of Western Sydney
Email: p.oneill@uws.edu.au
Australian Editorial Advisory Board
Kay Anderson, University of Western Sydney
Kevin Dunn, University of New South Wales
Patricia Fanning, Macquarie University
Brian Finlayson University of Melbourne
Stephen Gale, University of Sydney
Iain Hay, Flinders University of South Australia
Jamie Kirkpatrick, University of Tasmania
Bob Loughran, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Pauline McGuirk, University if Newcastle, New South Wales
Lesley Potter, Australian National University
Jeremy Smith, University of New England
Nigel Tapper, Monash University
Stephen Turton, James Cook University, Cairns
Hilary Winchester, University of South Australia
International Editorial Advisory Panel
Richard Bedford, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Ana Maria S.M. Bicalho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ian Douglas, University of Manchester, UK
Ron Johnston, University of Bristol, UK
Lily Kong, National University of Singapore
Mike Meadows, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Janice Monk, University of Arizona, USA
Patrick Nunn, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Thomas Oberthür, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia
Takashi Oguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Steffanie Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada
Michael Stocking, University of East Anglia, UK
Xiaoping Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Early View
Geographical Research will now be available electronically, online, in ‘Early View’ (previously termed ‘Online Early’ but changed following the merger of Blackwell Synergy into Wiley InterScience).
Early View papers are produced individually or in small batches. Papers are dealt with in the usual way: submitted to editors, refereed, returned to authors for revision, revised papers are copy-edited by the editors and returned to authors for approval, often with further queries, and then forwarded to the publisher once authors and editors are satisfied. Proofs will be sent from the publisher to authors and the relevant editor as they are prepared individually or in small batches, and the editor will incorporate all the changes into the proof and send the corrections back to the publisher. Authors are asked to note that only errors may be corrected at the proof stage: this is not the time to rewrite the paper. Once the paper is finalised it is published online, and at that point the article is considered fully published and no further changes can be made. When it is time to collate the issue, papers will be paginated and published in print and in the issue table of contents online. If there is an error in a paper published in Early View it would need to be corrected with an erratum, just as if it had been published in a hard copy issue.
There are two main benefits for authors. First, most papers will be published more quickly than at present. There will no longer be a lag between final acceptance and copy-editing, and publication; whereas at present this lag may extend over several months.
Second, authors’ papers receive two exposures: once when the article is placed in Early View, and second when it appears in the printed version. Early View papers are cited by their digital object identifier (doi) number: at that stage they will not have volume, issue or page numbers. In all other respects they are full publications.
Arthur Conacher, George Curry and Roy Jones (editors)