Reaching Regions is the official outreach journal of the North American Regional Science Council.
Reaching Regions publishes contributions on topics of policy-relevance to North American regions including original descriptive analyses, data visualizations, non-technical summaries of published academic research, case studies with broader implications, presidential addresses, research syntheses, and other items approved by the Editors. All submissions should be written in non-technical language that is accessible to non-academics.
Reaching Regions is peer-reviewed, open-access, and published fully online. NARSC members can submit papers with no submission or publication fees.
The journal is led by founding editors Heather Stephens (West Virginia University) and John Winters (Iowa State University) and published with support from the Regional Research Institute (RRI) at West Virginia University and the Iowa State University Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD).
Potential contributions can be submitted via the journal’s online submission portal: https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/rreg/submissions/