Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Journal Name: Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS)

ISSN: 2413-8053

Publisher and Sponsor: All operational costs for ESTS are supported by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). The Society is a nonprofit professional association founded in 1975 to engage and connect those interested in understanding the ways in which science, technology, and medicine function and manifest in relation to their social contexts. 4S has a broad and growing membership and holds a widely attended academic conference annually.

Since 2023, and for the next five years ESTS is supported through OACIP (Lyrasis) for some infrastructural costs. You can contribute to our Lyrasis funding campaign here, alongside the research libraries, university institutions, and individuals. We thank the 21 institutions who have already donated: 

• Cornell University
• Cornell University Department of Science & Technology Studies
• Indiana University
• Iowa State University
• Leiden University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• New York University
• Ohio State University
• Swarthmore College
• University of California, Irvine
• University of Chicago
• University of Kansas
• University of Manchester
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Washington
• VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium
• VU Amsterdam
• Yale University

Publication Frequency: 3 issues annually. Until volume 6, we used to follow a continuous publication model in one annual volume. Starting from volume 7 we moved to an issue-based publication model. Volume 7 features 2 issues. Starting from volume 8 we publish 3 issues annually.

Editor-in-Chief: Email Aalok Khandekar

Managing Editor: Email Amanda Windle

Indexing: Since its inception in 2015, ESTS is indexed in The Directory of Open Access Journals. Beginning with Volume 4 (2018), ESTS is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESTS is also indexed in Crossref and Google Scholar.

Article Processing Charge (APC): ESTS is a fully open access journal. There are no APC or submission fees to publish in the journal. All ESTS content is freely available upon publication.

Copyright: Authors of all content published in ESTS retain the copyright to their work, and agree to license them under
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