''History of the Human Sciences'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal that covers research on the history of the
human sciences. Its
editors-in-chief are Felicity Callard (
University of Durham), Rhodri Hayward (
Queen Mary University of London), Angus Nicholls (
Queen Mary University of London) and Chris Renwick (
University of York
, mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £8.0 million
, budget = £403.6 million
, chancellor = Heather Melville
, vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery
, students ...
). The book reviews editor is Chris Millard (
Sheffield University) and the web editor is Des Fitzgerald (
Cardiff University
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, image_name = Shield of the University of Cardiff.svg
, image_size = 150px
, caption = Coat of arms of Cardiff University
, motto = cy, Gwirionedd, Undod a Chytgord
, mottoeng = Truth, Unity and Concord
, established = 1 ...
). The journal was established in 1988 and is published by
SAGE Publications
SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in Newbury Park, California.
It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...
. The previous editor was James Good (
University of Durham).
The journal provides comprehensive coverage of a range of themes across the human sciences. Special issues and sections have been devoted to such topics as: psychotherapy in historical perspective, the Frankfurt School, the social and human sciences across the Iron Curtain, Vyotsky, Norbert Elias and process sociology, historians in the archive, the invention of the psychosocial, and Hans Blumenberg.
Abstracting and indexing
''History of the Human Sciences'' is abstracted and indexed in
Academic Search Premier
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, the
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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,
Current Contents, the
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences,
Scopus, and the
Social Sciences Citation Index
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. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2016
impact factor of 0.397.
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