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Forty years of Landscape research
Papers of four decades published in Landscape Research are reviewed in
order to chronicle the journal’s development and to assess the academic
performance of the journal relative to its own aims. Landscape Research
intends to reach a wide audience, to have a broad thematic coverage and to
publish different types of papers with various methodological orientations.
Cutting across these first aims are the interdisciplinary ambition of the journal,
and its overall focus on landscape. These aims are evaluated based upon
categorisation of article content, authorship and methodology, using data
derived through interpretative inquiry and quantitative analyses. The results
tell the story of how Landscape Research has developed from a newsletter
of the Landscape Research Group, mainly aimed at practitioners, into an
interdisciplinary, international journal with academic researchers as its
primary community of interest. The final section discusses the current profile
of the journal and identifies issues for its future direction and development