Minerva (Springer journal)

From The invisible Empire
Minerva
DisciplineSociology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byPeter Weingart
Publication details
History1962–present
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media
FrequencyQuarterly
1.784 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Minerva
Indexing
ISSN0026-4695 (print)
1573-1871 (web)
LCCN67005277
OCLC no.1039264639
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Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the sociological study of scientific knowledge and research. It was established in 1962, replacing a series of bulletins that had been published by the Congress for Cultural Freedom's Committee on Science and Freedom beginning in 1954. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Peter Weingart (Bielefeld University). Since 2013, the journal's home institution has been the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I²SOS) at Bielefeld University.

Editors-in-chief

Past editors-in-chief of Minerva are:

  • Roy MacLeod (2000–2008)
  • Michael Shattock (1995–1999)
  • Edward Shils (1962–1994)

Literature

  • Roy MacLeod: Consensus, Civility, and Community: The Origins of Minerva and the Vision of Edward Shils, in: Minerva, September 2016, Volume 54, Issue 3, pp 255–292.

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