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Metascience (journal)

Metascience is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature. It publishes reviews of books in the history and philosophy of science and science and technology studies.

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Metascience
DisciplineMultidisciplinary humanities
LanguageEnglish
Edited byK. Brad Wray; Jonathan Simon
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History1992–present
Publisher
FrequencyTriannually
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ISO 4Metascience
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ISSN0815-0796 (print)
1467-9981 (web)
LCCN93650333
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Metascience is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature. It publishes reviews of books in the history and philosophy of science and science and technology studies.12

It was established in 1984 by the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science,2 and re-established in 1991 as a new series of the journal, with the new subtitle An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, by Michael Shortland.1 Operations for the journal moved in 2017 from the philosophy department of the State University of New York at Oswego to the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus University.3

As of 2021, the editors-in-chief are K. Brad Wray of Aarhus University and Jonathan Simon of the University of Lorraine.4 The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus.5

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  1. Knight, David (September 1992), "Review of Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and of Public Understanding of Science: An International Journal of Research in the Public Dimensions of Science and Technology", The British Journal for the History of Science, 25 (3): 392, doi:10.1017/s0007087400029538
  2. Stenhouse, John (June 1991), "Review of Historical Records of Australian Science and of Metascience: Biannual Review of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science", Isis, 82 (2): 289–290, doi:10.1086/355734
  3. Wray, K. Brad; Boschiero, Luciano (June 2017), "Metascience is on the move", Metascience, 26 (2): 173–174, doi:10.1007/s11016-017-0208-8, S2CID 172093784
  4. "Editors", Metascience, Springer, retrieved 2021-02-27
  5. "Source details: Metascience". Scopus preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
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