| Quest | |
| Editor: | Maartje de Gruyter |
| Editor Title: | Managing Editor (due to absence of Editor-in-chief) |
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| Category: | Popular science magazine |
| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Publisher: | Hearst Netherlands |
| Company: | Hearst Corporation |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Based: | 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] The magazine was part of Gruner + Jahr[2] and is published by G+J Uitgevers on a monthly basis.[1]
The headquarters of the magazine is in Diemen. The magazine features articles on science and technology with a special reference to nature, health, psychology and history. Target audience of the magazine is people between 20 and 49 years of age.[1] [3] The monthly has several special supplements, Quest Psychologie, Quest Historie, Quest Image and Quest 101.[4]
Karlijn van Overbeek served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine[1] until her death in 2010. Then Thomas Hendriks was appointed to the post.
The magazine is also distributed in Belgium.[4] In 2011 the English version of Quest was launched by Gruner + Jahr in South Africa with the same name.[2] The magazine is published on a bimonthly basis there.[2]
Quest has won the Mercur Magazine Award several times since its start in 2004.[1] The magazine received the award in 2004, in 2007 and in 2009. It was named as the Launch of the Year 2004[5] and the Magazine of the Year for 2010.[1]
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.[4]