Academic Journal
Q2Centaurus
About Centaurus
Centaurus is a scholarly journal published by Brepols Publishers. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q2, with an SJR of 0.239 and H-index of 18.
Coverage: 1950-1961, 1963-1969, 1971-1982, 1984-1994, 1998, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2025. Research categories: History and Philosophy of Science (Q2).
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Topics in published research
Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research; Australian Indigenous Culture and History; History of Science and Medicine; History of Science and Natural History; Botanical Research and Chemistry; Plant Diversity and Evolution.
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2,500.00 USD; 2,083.00 EUR; 1,667.00 GBP
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2025-10-01 · DOI: 10.1484/j.cnt.5.153608Book review: Patrick Charbonneau, Michelle Frank, Margriet van der Heijden, & Daniela Monaldi, Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025, 456 pp., ISBN: 9781009535830.
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2025-09-01 · DOI: 10.1484/j.cnt.5.155487Book review: Steffen Ducheyne, Physics in Minerva's Academy: Early to Mid‑Eighteenth‑ Century Appropriations of Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy at the University of Leiden and in the Dutch Republic at Large, 1687–c. 1750, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025, xvi + 460 pp., ISBN: 9789004716155.
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2025-09-01 · DOI: 10.1484/j.cnt.5.154104Reviews
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