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Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Editors' Note
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Editors' Note
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     Three years after the release of its first issue, Tecnoscienza looks at it-
self in the mirror, and starts a new three-year cycle with some notable
accomplishments and a few novelties.
     In recent years the journal has gained great visibility at both national
and international level (it currently has about 1,500 registered users and
an average of 750 downloads upon the release of each new issue), estab-
lishing itself as the only Italian academic journal specifically devoted to
social studies of science and technology, as well as one of the only one
coming from a southern European country. At a national level, this
achievement has also been symbolically acknowledged by the awarding of
Premio Filosofico Castiglioncello, a prize awarded last year to Tecnoscienza
as the “best online academic journal in 2012”.
     The Journal has also strengthened and consolidated its position in the
international debate, thanks to the publication of original materials in
English and its ability to carve out for itself an increasingly central role in
the international academic community (see for example the special issue
dedicated to the 2010 EASST conference: http://www.tecnoscienza.net/
index.php/tsj/issue/view/18). The reputation of Tecnoscienza has also
been enhanced by the contributions included in the Cartography section,
which have so far focused on the STS debate in several European coun-
tries (i.e. Spain, Germany, Norway and Croatia) and the review section,
which includes in-depth analyses (in English) of STS books written in
other languages.
     In the perspective of a more incisive positioning of the Journal both
nationally and internationally, we have implemented various actions in
preparation for the next three years, aimed at enhancing Tecnoscienza’s
institutional recognition and reputation. We have recently participated in
the processes of accreditation and evaluation promoted by Italian aca-
demic and scientific institutions, having been included by the National
Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research (ANVUR) in the
list of scientific journals. Moreover, Tecnoscienza has also been selected
by the Italian Association of Sociology as a candidate journal to be listed
among the A-class publications recognized by ANVUR. Finally, we sub-
	
  
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mitted the Journal to the attention of leading international databases for
assessment and indexing purposes.
    To further position itself as a benchmark in the national and interna-
tional debate, in the next three years Tecnoscienza will annually dedicate a
special monographic issue to an emerging topic in contemporary STS.
This is the first of these special issues and on the Journal’s website it is
already possible to find the call for papers for the one scheduled for 2014
(“From Bench to Bed and Back: Laboratories and Biomedical Research”,
edited by Federico Neresini and Assunta Viteritti). We look forward to
receiving your contributions, whether you wish to propose specific
themes for an upcoming special issue or you would like to send your
contribution as an open submission.
    Another novelty of this issue is that it also inaugurates a new Board
Coordination and, above all, sees the expansion of the Editorial Board
itself. This expansion has not only to do with the number of members,
but also with the Journal’s geographical grounding. Some of the new
members of the Editorial Board actually carry out their research activities
outside of Italy and will therefore contribute to maintaining Tecnoscienza
as even more anchored to a variety of international debates and networks.
    One last innovation, albeit perhaps the most evident to our readers,
concerns the change of format and graphics. Abandoning the traditional
magazine layout, Tecnoscienza is now characterised by a new format, in
some ways more attuned with academic publishing and also (hopefully)
easier to handle. As widely known in STS, changing infrastructures may
pose unexpected problems, which require a surplus of work. So it was in
our case, but the result pleases us. We hope it is the same for you.

    Enjoy the reading.

    Attila Bruni, Paolo Magaudda and Assunta Viteritti
