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Almagest

Journal for the Transnational History of Technoscience

Editors: Maria Rentetzi Efthymios Nicolaïdis
Publishing Manager: Eva Schalbroeck
Publisher: Brepols
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Print ISSN: 1792-2593
Online ISSN: 2507-0371

Frequency:
2 issues/year

In collaboration with:
Hellenic Society of History, Philosophy

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

Accepted Language(s):
English, French

Accepts Contributions in Open Access

ABOUT

The journal Almagest transitioned from an International Journal for the History of Scientific Ideas into a Transnational Journal for the 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.

  • EDITORIAL BOARD

    Editors
    Maria Rentetzi
    Efthymios Nicolaïdis

    Book review editors
    Loukas Freris
    Kapil Patil
    Dannae Karydaki

    Plog editor
    Roque Manuel Jimenez Sumalave

    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 Tieggelen, Brigitte, Science History Institute, Paris office
    Wormbs, Nina Cyrén, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

  • AUTHOR INFORMATION

    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

  • RANKING & INDEXING

    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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ALMAGEST, Journal for the Transnational History of Technoscience, 2025/1

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Franco-Mexican Texts in the History and Philosophy of Science
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Creationism in Asia, Oceania, and Eastern Europe
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La nature dans les commentaires chrétiens sur la Genèse (hexaéméra) / Nature in the Chistian Commentaries on Genesis
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Science and Imagination
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Science and Orthodox Christianity
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The Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism
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