Science in Context
Overview
Science in Context is a scientific journal, published by Cambridge University Press since 1987 in English. The journal's country of origin is United Kingdom and its primary focus area is science.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Sci Context
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Start
1987
End
Continuing
Frequency
Four no. a year
p-ISSN
0269-8897
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Specialty
Science
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 10094
32
SJR / Ranks: 12541
257
CiteScore / Ranks: 13403
0.80
JIF / Ranks: 7549
0.3
Recent Articles
1.
Ash M
Sci Context
. 2024 Sep;
:1-15.
PMID: 39308307
Herbert Mehrtens' work and the implications of the historical ideas he advanced went beyond the history of any single discipline. The article therefore addresses three broad issues: (1) Mehrtens' reconceptualization...
2.
Rowe D
Sci Context
. 2024 Sep;
:1-19.
PMID: 39295177
Epistemological issues associated with Cantorian set theory were at the center of the foundational debates from 1900 onward. Hermann Weyl, as a central actor, saw this as a smoldering crisis...
3.
Barell A, Kirsh N
Sci Context
. 2024 Jun;
35(3):272-293.
PMID: 38832487
In this article we examine how a leading Israeli hospital gradually became a large biomedical research facility, resembling a huge laboratory. For Chaim Sheba (1908-1971), the founder and first director...
4.
Michel N, Smadja I
Sci Context
. 2024 Jun;
35(3):199-251.
PMID: 38832486
Of Euclid's lost manuscripts, few have elicited as much scholarly attention as the , of which a couple of brief summaries by late-Antiquity commentators are extant. Despite the lack of...
5.
Schleper S
Sci Context
. 2024 Jun;
35(3):294-313.
PMID: 38832485
This article discusses two approaches to save the European white stork populations from extinction that emerged after 1980. Despite the shared objective to devise transnational, science-based conservation measures, the two...
6.
Kuitert W
Sci Context
. 2024 Feb;
35(3):252-271.
PMID: 38372156
When Japan faced the world after the collapse of its feudal system, it had to invent its own modern identity in which the Tokyo Cherry became the National Flower. Despite...
7.
Hennessey J
Sci Context
. 2023 Dec;
35(2):133-151.
PMID: 38108155
In 1909, Italian zoologist Daniele Rosa (1857-1944) proposed a radical new evolutionary theory: hologenesis, or simultaneous, pan-terrestrial creation and evolution driven primarily by internal factors. Hologenesis was widely ignored or...
8.
Kiel Steensen A, Johansen M, Misfeldt M
Sci Context
. 2023 Dec;
35(1):81-101.
PMID: 38099487
In this paper, we wish to explore the role that textual representations play in the creation of new mathematical objects. We do so by analyzing texts by Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813)...
9.
Roelcke V
Sci Context
. 2023 Dec;
35(2):173-197.
PMID: 38084861
This article uses four historical case studies to address epistemological issues related to the animal model of human diseases and its use in medical research on human diseases. The knowledge...
10.
De Risi V
Sci Context
. 2023 Dec;
35(1):49-80.
PMID: 38058179
The Fourth Postulate of Euclid's states that all right angles are equal. This principle has always been considered problematic in the deductive economy of the treatise, and even the ancient...