''Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft'' (Gnomon: Critical Journal of the Entire Field of Scholarship on Classical Antiquity) is a German review journal covering the

classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classi ...

. It was established in 1925, first published by Verlag Weidmann and since 1949 by Verlag C. H. Beck. The journal appears in 8 issues each year and contains reviews, obituaries, and notices. Since 1950, odd-numbered volumes contain a "Bibliographic Supplement" of new books, dissertations and submitted journal articles, in addition to the regular contents. The

editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

are Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Martin Hose, Henner von Hesberg, Ernst Vogt, and

Paul Zanker Paul Zanker (born 7 February 1937) is the Professor of ''Storia dell’Arte Antica'' at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Previously he was ''Professor of Classical Archaeology'' at the University of Munich (1976–2002) and the University of ...

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

Arts & Humanities Citation Index The ''Arts & Humanities Citation Index'' (A&HCI), also known as ''Arts & Humanities Search'', is a citation index, with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,700 arts and humanities journals, and coverage of disciplines that includes social an ...

and

Current Contents ''Current Contents'' is a rapid alerting service database from Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Institute for Scientific Information and Thomson Reuters. It is published online and in several different printed subject sections. History ''Curr ...

/Arts & Humanities. In both 2007 and 2011 the journal received an "INT1" ranking (internationally recognised with high visibility) from the European Reference Index for the Humanities.

Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank

In 1994 the ''Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank'' (Gnomon bibliographic database) was established, containing data on ''Gnomon'' articles, monographs, book chapters, journal articles from over 200 classics journals. Entries were in German or English. Since the beginning of 1996 there has been a sister project, ''Gnomon Online'', which provides access to the database through the internet and is updated weekly."Gnomon Online" ''Gnomon'' 68. Bd., H. 2 (1996), p. 191; John Tamm ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'' 97.4.

Isabelle Torrance, ''Aeschylus: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide'' (2010) 5

List of editors

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

References

External links

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Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank
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