BJHS Themes

Aims & Scope

BJHS Themes is a collaborative open-access journal that aims to establish a platform for the history of science community. Our mission is to publish scholarly and engaging collections of history of science papers that address provocative themes, making them freely available to readers worldwide.

As a fully open-access journal, we offer no financial barrier to publication for authors, allowing them to share their research with a global audience. Our goal is to provide a unique and innovative publishing experience that fosters collaboration and knowledge-sharing among historians of science.

BJHS Themes is a joint venture between the British Society for the History of Science and Cambridge University Press, building on the success of our sister publication, the British Journal for the History of Science.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

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• Homepage
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APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 3,450.00 USD. Learn more.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma

  Citation: 32

  Authors: JONATHAN

• Bovine and human becomings in histories of dairy technologies: robotic milking systems and remaking animal and human subjectivity

  Citation: 27

  Authors: LEWIS, CHRISTOPHER

• How collections end: objects, meaning and loss in laboratories and museums

  Citation: 15

  Authors: BORIS, EMMA, JENNY

• Spencer's double: the decolonial afterlife of a postcolonial museum prop

  Citation: 15

  Authors: EMMA

• The repatriation of the Palaeoamericans: Kennewick Man/the Ancient One and the end of a non-Indian ancient North America

  Citation: 14

  Authors: ANN M.

• Green-revolution epistemologies in China and India: technocracy and revolution in the production of scientific knowledge and peasant identity

  Citation: 13

  Authors: MADHUMITA, SIGRID

• High-tech utopianism: Chinese and Indian science parks in the neo-liberal turn

  Citation: 13

  Authors: DIGANTA, TONG

• Animal agents? Historiography, theory and the history of science in the Anthropocene

  Citation: 13

  Authors: AMANDA

• Learning by the book: manuals and handbooks in the history of science

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Angela N.H., Mathias, Elaine

• Accepting difference, seeking common ground: Sino-Indian statistical exchanges 1951–1959

  Citation: 9

  Authors: ARUNABH