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

• Coal Exists, Therefore it Must be dug up
  May 14, 2024 by Vanessa Bowden
  As the world’s second largest exporter of coal, Australia has been notoriously reticent to facilitate the technological transitions required to alleviate climate change. The influence of the mining lobby has been well documented, as have the machinations of successive governments, who have had little success in overcoming this influence, or determination to do so. Yet […]
• Technologies of Ecological Mediation
  May 14, 2024 by Birgit Bräuchler
  Different world views and ontologies require different technologies to deal with environmental issues. Land reclamation plans in Bali’s south, meant to open up new space for tourist development, triggered strong but varied responses in the Balinese population, from rejection to enthusiasm. All actors claim to aim towards a prosperous Bali, and at the protection of […]
• Lost Futures
  May 14, 2024 by Hedda Askland
  Embedded within large-scale resource extraction projects is a tension between the immobility of the resource and the mobility of the people who inhabit the surface over which the resource is found. The limited ability to negotiate the place of extraction, and the destruction of prior ecologies, can generate significant hardship to local populations and pose […]
• Caton James Lee (ed) (2022) The Economics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: A Transaction Costs Revolution
  May 14, 2024 by Jongheon Kim
• Ermoshina Ksenia and Musiani Francesca (2022) Concealing for Freedom: The making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties
  May 14, 2024 by Samuele Fratini