Aims & Scope
It is our ambition that Coastal Studies and Society will be the leading hub for world research in coastal studies.
The journal will be the forum for a wide-ranging cooperation between coastal humanities and social science research and other fields of human knowledge, promoting new alignments able to challenge older agendas and methodologies, and propose new ones.
It will cater to a growing and vibrant area of scholarly work that is currently scattered and will find here a common place for shared encounters and synergies.
Coasts are, by definition, adjacent to large bodies of water.
This has made it difficult to carve out a space for discussion of coasts as distinct from oceans, and of coastal studies as something distinct from maritime studies.
We aim to coordinate and direct sustained attention to the relationship between the land and sea and society, that comprises a nature-culture hybrid territory which has appeared at the periphery of so many academic inquiries, but at the centre of too few.
The new approaches to the coast are diverse, but they share an enhanced concern for the local, the adjacent, or the domestic, discriminating between the fine gradations of coastal experience.
They may also approach local specificities as the basis for the travelling ideas, people, animals, plants and assets that explain the role of coasts as open global interfaces.
All of these themes can be considered across disciplines, and at different temporal and spatial scales.
Therefore, we will seek comparisons when possible, without assuming that all coasts should necessarily resemble each other.
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Journal Rank
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 19384 |
Journal Citation Indicator
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 29 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.233 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Q3 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 |
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