Print ISSN: 1792-2593
Online ISSN: 2507-0371
Frequency:
2 issues/year
In collaboration with:
Hellenic Society of History, Philosophy, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Method of peer review
double-blind undertaken by a specialist member of the Board or an external specialist
Keywords
History of science, History of ideas, Epistemology, History of philosophy, Science and Religion, Modern science, Contemporary science, Social studies of science, Gender studies, Science and technology studies
Accepted Language(s):
English, French
Accepts Contributions in Open Access
The journal Almagest transitioned from an International Journal for the History of Scientific Ideas into a Journal for the Transnational History of Technoscience. The shift signifies that the journal will place a new emphasis on the rich histories of not just scientific ideas but also of experiments, people, objects, images, devices, instruments, and epistemic ‘things’ as they cross multiple national and/or institutional boundaries. This change is intended to reflect a prolific disciplinary (dis)order, in which science is seen as deeply entangled with technology, diplomacy as strongly related to science, and knowledge as inherently political.
Almagest invites high-quality contributions from scholars around the globe who bring fresh perspectives to the history of technoscience. The journal is not constrained by focus on any particular time or place. In addition to individual articles and book reviews, Almagest comprises three different sections:
1. A ‘Plog’: a neologism that stands for Printed blog, a short text written in an accessible, conversational style like a blog and prepared for a website or a digital medium. This section is meant to communicate histories of science and technology in a way that can connect academics with wider audiences outside our ivory towers.
2. A visual story: this section invites papers of c. 1,000 words that briefly analyze an image related to science and/or technology. The rationale here is that images are not only historical sources of important value as ‘texts’, but that they also open-up further research questions and unearth stories.
3. Alma-g(u)est: oral history has a strong methodological value, and this section reiterates its importance in writing the history of technoscience. For this section, Almagest invites short, edited interviews with key actors in the field, as well as historical case studies.
Editors
Maria Rentetzi
Efthymios Nicolaïdis
Book review editors
Loukas Freris
Kapil Patil
Plog editor
Myrto Dimitrokali
Interviews editor
Spyros Petrounakos
Editorial Board
Duran, Saltuk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Figueirôa, Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brasil
Jami, Cathérine, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France
Kostov, Alexandre, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kramer, Derek, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Kumar, Deepak, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Millán Gasca, Ana Maria, University Roma TRE, Italy
Navaro, Jaume, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain
Santesmases Navarro de Palencia, María Jesús, Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Shalimov, Sergey, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Shi, Yunli, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Soares, Luiz Carlos, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brasil
Tampakis, Kostas, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
Van Tiggelen, Brigitte, Science History Institute, Paris office
Wormbs, Nina Cyrén, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Submissions
Please submit your paper by e-mail to the Managing editor Vangelis Koutalis, vankout@eie.gr and cc to the Coeditor Efthymios Nicolaidis, efnicol@eie.gr Papers must be submitted in both word.doc and in pdf format.
Guidelines for authors, including a detailed stylesheet, can be found on https://hpdst.gr/publications/almagest/guidelines-for-authors
Licencing & Copyright
This journal offers different licence options. A standard licence gives Brepols the exclusive copyright for all published content. Gold Open Access articles will be published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 Licence. For these articles the copyright remains with the authors. Please discuss with your Publishing Manager if you or your funding body require an alternative CC-licence. See our dedicated webpages for further details on our open access options at https://www.brepols.net/open-access/journals, and our self-archiving policies at https://www.brepols.net/open-access/self-archiving-policy
Ethics, Malpractice and Authorship Statement
Déclaration d’éthique pour les revues de Brepols: https://www.brepols.net/ethics
Archiving
All articles are digitally archived in Portico
ERIH PLUS - European Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HSTM) Database
Index Religiosus
International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance
International Medieval Bibliography
IsisCB Sources and Resources for the History of Science and Allied Fields (indexed on article level)
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ANVUR Area 8 – Scientific
ANVUR Area 11 – Scientific
ANVUR Area 11 – Class A: A(2017) 11/C2
CIRC (C Classification in human sciences)
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