Editorial Editorial Publishing physical geography papers in Geographica Helvetica

Since October 2012, a new editor team has been respon-sible for the journal Geographica Helvetica. Geographica Helvetica has a very long publishing tradition of Swiss ge-ographical research starting in the year 1899 with the an-nual reports of the Geographic and Ethnological Society and developing over the following years slowly to the 1946 re-named journal Geographica Helvetica. The journal covers a very broad range of topics in geography. For many years the journal has been receiving quite a large amount of ar-ticles in human geography and only some papers in phys-ical geography. Therefore, the journal is very well known and appreciated in human geography (see also article by Korf et al., 2013). In the case of physical geography, even if it seems to be less attractive for researchers than more specialized journals, Geographica Helvetica is filling a gap between highly ranked and specialized disciplinary journals and more public non-reviewed publications. The journal al-lows the publication of peer-reviewed articles in all official languages of Switzerland and in English. It covers topics that are within or related to geographical research in Switzer-land. We strongly encourage supervisors of master and PhD studies or researchers especially within physical geography to publish research studies carried out in Switzerland. The journal also welcomes thematic issues in physical geogra-phy, as it is the case for example for geomorphological her-itage (Reynard and Coratza, 2007), physical geography an