Managing Editor (due to absence of Editor-in-chief) | Maartje de Gruyter |
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Categories | Popular science magazine |
Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Hearst Netherlands |
First issue | 1 February 2004 |
Company | Hearst Corporation |
Country | Netherlands |
Based in | Diemen |
Language | Dutch |
Website | Quest |
ISSN | 1573-4617 |
OCLC | 73596567 |
Quest is a monthly popular science magazine published in Diemen, Netherlands.
Quest was launched in February 2004. [1] [2] The magazine was part of Gruner + Jahr [3] and is published by G+J Uitgevers on a monthly basis. [2]
The headquarters of the magazine is in Diemen. [4] The magazine features articles on science and technology with a special reference to nature, health, psychology and history. [4] Target audience of the magazine is people between 20 and 49 years of age. [2] [4] The monthly has several special supplements, Quest Psychologie, Quest Historie, Quest Image and Quest 101. [5]
Karlijn van Overbeek served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine [2] until her death in 2010. Then Thomas Hendriks was appointed to the post.
The magazine is also distributed in Belgium. [5] In 2011 the English version of Quest was launched by Gruner + Jahr in South Africa with the same name. [3] The magazine is published on a bimonthly basis there. [3]
Quest has won the Mercur Magazine Award several times since its start in 2004. [2] The magazine received the award in 2004, in 2007 and in 2009. It was named as the Launch of the Year 2004 [1] and the Magazine of the Year for 2010. [2]
In 2010 Quest had a circulation of 198,270 copies. [6] Its circulation was 183,348 copies in 2011 and 178,274 copies in 2012. [6] During the second quarter of 2014 the circulation of the magazine was 155,653 copies. [5]