Science & Technology Studies (S&TS)

About the journal

In response to the steady growth of our field, EASST is proud to support a flagship open access journal for the whole STS community, which is independent of commercial publishing houses, without article processing charges, meaning that the journal is free to publish at every stage. The journal publishes four issues per year: in February, May, September and December. The journal impact factor is 2.9 (2020).

Science & Technology Studies is the official journal of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Finnish Association for Science and Technology Studies. The journal is a development of Science Studies, which has a history of internationally peer-reviewed publications since 1988. Find the history of the journal on the S&TS website and follow the journal on twitter.

EASST members will be emailed when a new issue is available with its contents and access details. If you do not receive this email please contact office(at)easst.nomadit.net.

We invite prospective authors to submit their work to S&TS. Notes for authors can be found journal’s dedicated website.

Current Journal Content

• Schmidt Jan Cornelius (2022) Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity: Studies in Science, Society and Sustainability
  December 14, 2024 by Stefan Gammel
• Rouse Joseph (2023) Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction
  December 14, 2024 by Helen Ruth Verran
• When Numbers Run Out
  December 14, 2024 by Baki Cakici
  In the early 2000s, authorities in Sweden and Denmark recognised that their personal identification numbers were about to run out but followed different interventions to resolve the same issue. In this paper, I start from these cases to analyse personal identification numbers as methods for knowing and governing populations. I draw on two assertions from […]
• Developing AI for Weather Prediction
  December 14, 2024 by Przemyslaw Matt Lukacz
  The question of how professional and lay communities develop trust in new technologies, and automation in particular, has been a matter of lively debate. As a charismatic technology, artificial intelligence (A.I.) has been a common topic of these debates. This paper presents a case study of how the discourses and principles of ethics of technology […]
• Who Knows What a Microbe is?
  December 14, 2024 by Marie Turner, Erika Szymanski
  Microbial products are becoming common alternatives for pesticides and fertilizers in light of the unsustainability of chemical products. What the microbes in these products are, though—that is, how they are enacted—varies across regulatory, research and development, and growing spaces, and that variation matters to how they are regulated. From document analyses, interviews, and ethnographic work […]