Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal specialized in the History of Science and allied fields.
Published by Centre Simão Mathias of Studies in History of Science, PUC-SP (CESIMA), issues are published twice a year, in March and September.
Contributions are published in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish or in two or more of these languages (provided one is English).
Indexing/abstracting: Isis Current Bibliography; Latindex

 

Section Policies

Editorial

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Letters to the Editors

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Original Articles

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Dossiers

Dossiers are sets of articles around a same subject. Each dossier is edited by Guest Editors, who are charged of the dossier contents and contributors.

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Debates

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Allen Debus Conferences

The Allen Debus Conferences are held every two years. Internationally reputed historians of chemistry are the Guest Lecturers. Articles prepared by the Guest Lecturers based on their lectures are published in Circumscribere

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Dissertation Abstracts

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Brief reports

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Book Reviews

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Supplement

Editors
  • Fumikazu Saito
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Dossiê: Fontes para a História da Ciência

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Peer Review Process

Submissions will be reviewed by one or more reviewers, to be chosen by the journal editors, according to the specific subject of each submission. Reviewers will judge submissions according to: 1) the relevance of the subject for the History of Science; 2) theoretical consistency; 3) methodological consistency; 4) internal coherence; 5) relevance and updating of bibliographical references. Reviews take, usually, 3 to 6 months, reviewers are chosen among the journal consultants or ad hoc, according to the subject of the contribution.

 

Publication Frequency

The journal is published twice a year, in March and September.

Translations into other languages of published articles may be added later during the editorial year.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal offers immediate open access to its contents following the principles that free availability of scientific knowledge favors universal democratization of knowledge.

 


ISSN: 1980-7651