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| Discipline | Science and technology studies,history of science,philosophy of science,sociology of science |
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| Language | English |
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Former name | |
| History | 1971–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 4.038 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Soc. Stud. Sci. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0306-3127 (print) 1460-3659 (web) |
| LCCN | 75645506 |
| OCLC no. | 2242476 |
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Social Studies of Science is a bimonthlypeer-reviewedacademic journal that publishes papers relating to thehistory andphilosophy of science. The journal'seditors-in-chief are Nicole Nelson, Associate Professor in the Department of Medical History andBioethics at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison,[1] and Sergio Sismondo, Professor of Philosophy and Arts & Sciences atQueen's University.[2] The journal was established in 1971 under the nameScience Studies and assumed its present title in 1975. It is currently published bySAGE Publications.
In the 1971 inaugural issue, the founding editors,Roy MacLeod and David Edge,[3][4] announced that the journal "will devote itself to original research, whether empirical or theoretical, which brings fresh light to bear on the concepts, processes and consequences of modern science. It will be interdisciplinary in the sense that it will encourage appropriate contributions from political science, sociology, economics, history, philosophy, social anthropology, and the legal and educational disciplines. It will welcome studies of fundamental research, applied research and development; of university science, industrial science and science in government."[5]
Social Studies of Science is abstracted and indexed inScopus and theSocial Sciences Citation Index. According to theJournal Citation Reports, itsimpact factor is 4.038, ranking it 1st out of 111 journals in the category "History of Philosophy and Science".[7]
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