''The Science of Nature'', formerly ''Naturwissenschaften'', is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research.
Content
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published by
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
Originally founded in 1842 in ...
covering all aspects of the
natural science
Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...
s relating to questions of biological significance. It was founded in 1913 and intended as a German-language equivalent of the English-language journal ''
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. ...
'', at a time when German was still a dominant language of the natural sciences. The journal is now published in English.
History
''Die Naturwissenschaften'' was founded in 1913 by
Arnold Berliner
Arnold Berliner (Gut Mittelneuland bei Neisse, 26 December 1862 – Berlin, 22 March 1942) was a German physicist.
Biography
Berliner graduated in physics from the University of Breslau in 1886. He worked in the research and development labor ...
and published by Julius Springer Verlag. Berliner intended to create a German equivalent to the English-language journal
''Nature''. The original subtitle ''Wochenschrift für die Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik'' (''Weekly Publication of the Advances in the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology'') was later changed to its current ''The Science of Nature''. The journal is published monthly and the articles are exclusively in English, after a gradual transition from German to English during the 1990s. In January 2015, the journal changed its name to ''The Science of Nature''.
Editors
The following persons have been
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of the journal:
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Publications established in 1913
English-language journals
Monthly journals
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1913 establishments in Germany