About the Journal
STS Encounters is published by the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS). The aim of the journal is to publish high quality STS research, support collaboration in the Danish STS community and contribute to the recognition of Danish STS nationally and internationally. In this context STS is understood as a broad and interdisciplinary field. STS Encounters encourages submissions from all relevant fields and subfields of social and cultural inquiry dealing with scientific and technological matters. The editorial board emphasizes that the journal is to offer a broad and nuanced view of the Danish STS environment. This applies to theoretical and analytical frameworks, choice of method and substantive empirical areas.
More about DASTS at www.dasts.dk.
Submissions should be mailed to Editor-in-Chief Peter Danholt at pdanholt@cc.au.dk
Formats
STS Encounters publishes original research articles, survey articles, discussion papers and book reviews. Original and survey articles should be between 6000-8000 words excl. references. Reviews and discussion papers between 2000-3000 words.
Articles must include an abstract (200-300 words) and keywords (3-6).
Alternative formats and guest editors
Alternative formats (conference proceedings, artistic features, essays or the like) are also accepted. Authors are welcome to suggest other formats and guest editors to the editors. The Editorial Team will, in conjunction with the Editor-in-Chief, scrutinise and assess alternative formats and potential Guest Editors to ensure quality, content relevance and appropriateness for the journal.
Review
All articles are peer-reviewed. Full research articles are refereed by two anonymous researchers. Anonymity may be suspended to facilitate dialogue about the article, if the author and referee are both interested. Aside from peer-reviewers at least one editor reads and comments on each article. Articles may be rejected based on editor review only. Reviews are not posted with articles.
Language
STS Encounters is published in either English (UK/US) or in Danish, Swedish or Norwegian. All articles must include an English abstract.
Open access statement
STS Encounters is committed to providing open access to all published articles. We believe it is important that our authors contribute to open knowledge sharing, allowing their work to be accessible to everyone without restrictions. Furthermore, open access allows for wider reach, encouraging collaboration, discussion, and interaction among researchers, policymakers, and the general public.
STS Encounters is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. This means that all content is freely and immediately available without charge to the users and their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, link, print, search, or distribute the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the Publisher (STS Encounters) or the Author.
Authors are not charged for submission, review or publication of articles.
Authors contributing to STS Encounters retain copyright to their articles.
Authors agree to publish articles under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License. The terms of this license permit users to freely copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to adapt, transform, and build upon the material, as long as appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated. Users are not allowed to share or adapt the material for commercial purposes without consent from the licensor. The use of the licence must not in any way suggest that the licensor endorses the third party or their use. The license cannot be revoked
Open access compliance
STS Encounters is an open access journal providing immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
For Volume 1 (2008), number 1 to volume 12, number 1. STS Encounters was, in accordance with DOAJ’s definition, ‘Gratis Open Access’.
For Volume 15 (2023) and onwards STS Encounters is, in accordance with DOAJ’s definition, ‘Libre Open Access’.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish their work through this journal accept the following terms:
1. Authors retain their copyright and give the journal the right of first publication. The author's work is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-license, giving others the right to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's author and first publication in this journal.
2. Authors may enter into several separate contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., send it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), acknowledging the work's first publication in this journal.
3. Authors have the right and are encouraged to publish their works online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website - see The Effect of Open Access).
Endogeny and Conflicts of Interest
In accordance with COPE guidelines, the Journal applies strict conflict-of-interest procedures to safeguard editorial independence and prevent endogeny bias. Submissions from members of the editorial board are subject to independent external peer review, and the authors are excluded from all editorial decision-making processes. All manuscripts are evaluated according to the same standards of rigor, transparency, and impartiality.
Measured from first issue in 2008 and until today 2026 the proportion of published research papers where at least one of the authors is an editor, editorial board member, or reviewer is less than 6%.
