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Given the increasing use of artificial intelligence, authors must declare its application. European Countryside does not accept manuscripts generated by artificial intelligence tools due to their inability to take responsibility for the submitted work. AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. If AI tools have been used as part of the design or methodology of a research study, their use must be stated and described in detail in the Acknowledgement section. The use of AI for language proofreading is completely legal.

European Countryside journal received the Web of Knowledge impact factor. The impact factor for 2024 is 1.0 (two-year) and 1.5 (five-year).

Due to rising costs, we are forced to increase the basic price for publishing to EUR 190 per paper. Discounts remain valid.

Starting with the number 1/2022, the design of the introductory page of individual articles has been changed. Hashtags have been added to graphically highlight the main content of the contributions.

From issue 1/2021, Highlights will be presented at the beginning of each article to serve search engines and to make it easier for readers to find their way around the article. Highlights are a short collection of bullet points that convey the core findings and provide readers with a quick textual overview of the article. These three to five bullet points (maximum 85 symbols each) describe the essence of the research (e.g. results or conclusions) and highlight what is distinctive about it. Authors should place Highlights behind abstracts.

EUROPEN COUNTRYSIDE is indexed in Web of Science Core Collection since the very beginning (2009).

EUROPEAN COUNTRYSIDE is indexed in SCOPUS. Papers published in 2012 and later were included.

The Journal Impact Factor for 2024 is 1.0

The SCOPUS cite score for 2024 is 2.6

• 3,462 times in the Web of Knowledge (7.32 per paper), h-index 25
• 3,536 times in SCOPUS (8.30 per paper; it concerns 426 papers since 2012), h-index 25
• 7,179 times in Google Scholar (15.18 per paper), h-index 37

Number 2 of the 17th volume of European Countryside was just released on: https://sciendo.com/issue/EUCO/17/2.

It contains the following research papers:

Sigrid Kroismayr, Gesine Tuitjer, Ingrid Machold, Marie Mahon
Arts and Culture for a Sustainable Future in Rural Areas
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0013

Sina Rieken
Shaping People and Places: Insights into the Structures and Effects of Voluntary Cultural Work in the Oldenburger Münsterland
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0014

Vicente Pinilla, Andrea López Azcona, Maria Cruz Navarro, Luis Antonio Sáez
The Impact of Cultural Projects in Rural Spain
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0015

Tereza Špinková
(Re)Valuing Local Sheep Wool in the Czech and Slovak Republic: Some Examples of the Border between Arts and Crafts
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0016

Jessica Fittkau, Lisa Birnbaum, Stephan Kröner
Co-Constructive Participation in Arts and Cultural Heritage as a Key for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas? A Scoping Review
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0017

Victoria Huszka, Oliver Müller, Ove Sutter
Curating the Social Fabric: Practice Modes of Art and Cultural Work and their Impact on Social Sustainability in Rural Regions
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0018