About Cybergeo

Geography makes us more open to the world, to its sensitive and intelligible diversity, to its lines of force and fractures, to its predictable and unpredictable evolutions. The discipline has developed original scientific methods and produces renewed analyses to respond to our curiosities and perplexities. The European journal of Geography Cybergeo widely disseminates all this research production, without bias of school of thought or theme.

The journal, created in 1996, has from the outset been exclusively electronic and open access, in order to allow faster and more direct communication between authors and readers. With the aim of broadening the exchange of ideas, methods and results, it publishes in all of the main European languages. It guarantees a good scientific level of the articles by submitting them to an international reading committee. The double-anonymised peer review respects the highest scientific and ethical criteria. An important part of our editorial policy is to help authors to promote and disseminate their articles at the highest level of international scientific journals. This requirement of quality is achieved at the price of an important work of improvement suggestions from our readers. Transparency in the production of knowledge and reproducibility of experiences are guarantees of the relevance and cumulative nature of the knowledge thus transmitted. It is also in this spirit that the journal has recently created a Model papers and a Data papers sections.

Cybergeo aims to meet the specific needs of scientific communication, for rapid exchanges of information, immediate reactions to reading an article, "hot" debates on current events in the subject area, long-term discussions, clarifying the status of an issue, proposals for results or documents, interactive documents or models. In this perspective, it publishes not only scientific articles, but also a offers a blog, Cybergeo Conversation which is open to opinion pieces (Debates section) and more atypical texts in various formats (E-Topics section). As long as it is possible, Cybergeo will be free and open access, both for readers and authors. Since 2012, it has adopted the Freemium programme proposed by OpenEdition. This model aims to perpetuate open access journals without any cost for authors. The resources come from subscriptions. The principles of Freemium are as follows: all html pages remain open access, but pdf, e-pub formats and associated services are reserved for subscribers (academic or individual subscriptions). The journal is also supported by the CNRS.

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