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. 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.

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.

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