Minerva (Springer journal)

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 CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom's Committee on Science and Freedom beginning in 1954.^[1] 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.^[2]

Minerva

Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Peter Weingart
Publication details
History	1962–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.784 (2017)
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ISO 4	Minerva
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ISSN	0026-4695 (print) 1573-1871 (web)
LCCN	67005277
OCLC no.	1039264639
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

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.