Visions and Expectations for Publishing Landscape Scholarship

Abstract

This perspective essay explores the trajectory of publishing landscape scholarship from the perspectives of the authors and readers, with added consideration for scholarly societies, publishers, and funders. The essay notes some recent trends in expectations for publication and draws implications for what this means to the authors who share their research through peer-reviewed publication, specifically with Landscape Journal. The essay provides suggestions for how to situate and shape the author-venue-reader relationship to address current and future discourse in landscape research, particularly from landscape architecture. Suggestions include making landscape research more freely accessible, shortening times to publication, increasing engagement with scholars from outside of landscape architecture, and valorizing the relationship between Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture members and Landscape Journal.