Polar Research is the international, peer-reviewed journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute. It was the first all open-access polar journal. Articles in Polar Research have been picked up in Norway by NRK and VG and, internationally, by CNN News, The Guardian, BBC and Al Jazeera. In 2020, the journal’s website had over 20 000 users and abstracts were viewed over 100 000 times; full articles were viewed almost 7000 times. The top five countries visiting the website in 2020 were (in descending order) the US, Canada, China, Norway and the UK. Reflecting the journal’s broad topical scope and bipolar geographical coverage, the three most frequently viewed/downloaded articles in Polar Research in 2020 concerned a very long air-temperature series in Svalbard, the migration of a female Arctic fox from Svalbard to Canada and a new fossil lobster species found in the Antarctic.

 

• Open access – Polar Research publishes your work free from all access barriers, allowing for global distribution and more citations.
  
  
• Retain copyright – you retain copyright to your article and are free to disseminate it, make copies, deposit it in any repository, and more.
  
  
• Impact Factor – The 2019 Impact Factor as announced by Clarivate Analytics, is 1.127 . 2019 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.877
  
  
• Indexing – once published, your article will be comprehensively indexed in the foremost international databases.
  
  
• Post-publication statistics – metrics shown with each article make it easy to check how often your paper is being downloaded via Polar Research's website and how often it is being mentioned and shared through social media. 
  
  
• Comply with archiving policies – you can deposit any version of your paper in any required repository or archive, and post articles on your personal or institutional website.
  
  
• Add supplementary material – you can make data sets, protocols, very large illustrations, videos, questionnaires etc. available to readers alongside your article. 
  
  
• ZooBank - Polar Research is registered in ZooBank – electronic-only publication of nomenclatural acts is now permited by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Registration should take place before publication.  
  
  
• Personal service – Polar Research is published in partnership with Open Academia, a Publishing Partner dedicated to giving you excellent service all the way from submission to publication.