Three centuries of German-language philosophy journals (1765–1953): a bibliometric analysis

Maxim Demin () and Alexei Kouprianov ()
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Maxim Demin: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alexei Kouprianov: National Research University Higher School of Economics

Scientometrics, 2021, vol. 126, issue 7, No 12, 5664 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper analyses three centuries of developing German-language philosophy journals, from the first journals published in 1665 to those from the first decade of post-WWII recovery. Relying upon two bibliographies of philosophical journals collected in the 1970s, one by Joachim Kirchner and one by Wolfram Hogrebe, Rudolf Kamp, and Gert König, we attained a dataset of 607 journals.To analyse the population of periodicals, we identified three key components: the longevity of each journal and the growth rate and the continuity of the body of the journal population. The most puzzling finding is that there was a rapid growth in the number of journals at the end of the eighteenth century followed by a long decline in numbers that lasted almost a century. This paper analyses the structure of the boom in philosophical periodicals after 1888, followed by the effects of both World Wars, and identifies the communication crisis that occurred at the height of the Weimar Republic.

Keywords: Historical bibliometrics; Academic communication; German idealism; Philosophical periodicals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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