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

• Pepper as Imposter
  September 14, 2024 by Ericka Johnson
• Dutreuil Sébastien (2024) Gaïa, Terre vivante
  September 14, 2024 by Jeremy Rollin
• Oreskes Naomi (2022) Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean.
  September 14, 2024 by Adam Tamas Tuboly
• Gender Segregation in the Borderlands of E-Science
  September 14, 2024 by Öznur Karakaş, Gabriele Griffin
  This article draws on an ethnographic study of an e-science platform in Sweden to analyse how horizontal gender segregation across sciences plays out in e-science, a borderland in which sciences converge around state-of-the art computational technologies for scientific research. While the convergence of sciences in e-science has the potential to open a non-traditional trajectory to […]
• Ethical Plateaus in Danish Child Protection Services
  September 14, 2024 by Helene Friis Ratner, Ida Schrøder
  This paper analyses how controversies shape an emerging field of AI in Danish child protection services. In a context of high controversiality, we examine how algorithmic systems evolve in conjunction with changing ethical stakes. Empirically, we report a study comprising all Danish attempts (n=4) to develop algorithmic models for child protection services. These attempts were […]