About the Journal
Perspectiva Geográfica is a journal specialized in geographic studies, edited and funded by the Graduate Studies in Geography (EPG) within the framework of the inter-institutional agreement for scientific collaboration between the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) and theInstituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) since 1997, with a biannual periodicity starting in 2013.
ISSN (impreso): 0123-3769
ISSN (online): 2500-8684
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19053/issn.0123-3769
It is aimed at academic, research and territorial development communities interested in geographic and related science topics. It has been published exclusively in an online version since the first half of 2019. All issues are available in digital format.
The journal publishes original articles, reviews, technical notes and interviews in Spanish, English and Portuguese, referring to the spatiality of social, economic, political, cultural and natural phenomena, from various perspectives and theoretical approaches. It also welcomes studies on technical and methodological aspects of the work of geographers, as well as works on applied geography in the fields of geomatics and territorial planning and frontier research that contribute to the development of geographic science.
Potential authors of Perspectiva Geográfica must refrain from simultaneously submitting their academic contributions to other journals and adapt their manuscripts to the specifications described in the Instructions for Authors section. The journal's Open Journal System (OJS) is enabled to receive submissions.
For articles accepted by Perspectiva Geográfica, it will be understood that the author or authors assign to the journal the property rights for their publication in any form or medium. Before publication, the journal requires that the author, as the owner of the rights, sign a “Publication Agreement” to grant the journal the right to publish. After the acceptance of the article, the approval certificate will be sent. Once the proofreading process is completed, the author will receive the final published version of the article, available in open access, which can be shared through the DOI link.
The reception of articles is subject to the calls scheduled by the journal. For more information, write to the email perspectiva.geografica@uptc.edu.co
To increase visibility, documents can be consulted on the journal's website and in the following databases and indexing systems: Publindex (C), Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index), SciELO Citation Index, Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas - CIRC (Ciencias Sociales-C), European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), Dialnet, Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB), JournalTOCs.
Focus and scope
Perspectiva Geográfica is a scientific journal, open access and continuous publication, in two issues per year (per volume), devoted to the publication of original articles, review articles, technical notes and book reviews in English, Portuguese and Spanish, in the area of Geography. The main topics of the journal are:
- Study of practices, representations and spatial formations: It pays particular attention to the spatiality of society and its urban, rural, rurban, transitional and regional organization, among others, as well as to the production of space and the socio-spatial and socio-territorial processes that take place therein.
- Environmental Geography: It involves the integrated study of the landscape and its processes of formation and transformation, climate change, risk, its construction and management, in conjunction with the various national and transnational socioeconomic processes.
- Critical geographies of contemporary crises: It seeks to contribute to the construction and consolidation of a Colombian geography, articulating itself to contemporary Latin American thought and to the current global concerns and trends of geographic science.
- Territorial management, earth observation and new technologies: It studies the processes of territorial planning, development and management at different scales, applying geospatial technologies in the production of knowledge and the solution of biophysical, risk, economic and social problems, as well as new information and communication technologies.
- Geography, teaching and education: It is interested in seeking ways that allow us to think, construct and move, in a collaborative way, there are new ways of teaching and learning geography, exploring how geography is taught and understood in different educational contexts and how educational practices generally affect the understanding of geography. It allows for research that on the ground focuses on the teaching of geography in the classroom, but also on how geography can influence educational training and vice versa. This could include aspects such as teacher training, the integration of geography into the curricula of other disciplines, the adaptation of pedagogical processes to local and technological realities, and the influence of social and cultural contexts on education.
All manuscripts in the journal are selected through a “double-blind” evaluation system, in which active researchers and expert reviewers in each subject participate. The journal, by its scientific nature, is an international forum in Geography and is aimed at researchers, university professors, undergraduate and graduate students, and any reader who wants to be informed about recent research and current discussions in the disciplines covered by the journal.
Perspectiva Geográfica publishes its articles in immediate open access, in PDF format and in XML JATS, but under the diamond model, that is, it does not charge its authors for publishing in any of the phases of the publication process (no Article Processing Charges - No APC) because it is fully funded by the University Press of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) and by the Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) within the framework of the Agreement with the Postgraduate Program in Geography (EPG).
The Creative Commons license used by the journal in its published articles is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (attribution, non-commercial and no derivative works).