''Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science'' is a quarterly

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''. Centaurus'' publishes high quality academic content on the history of science in the broadest sense, including the history of mathematics, medicine, biomedical sciences, earth sciences, social sciences, humanities and technology, studied from different perspectives, including epistemic, social, cultural, material and technical aspects. It is the official journal of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS). The journal was established in 1950. In January 2022, Centaurus was relaunched in

format by the ESHS and

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as ''Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science''. Since 2024 the

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is Daniele Cozolli ( Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) and the deputy editor is Doubravka Olšáková (

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, Czech Republic).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 0.200.

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