The publications of the journal concern the following:

• general history of science and its relationships with other domains of culture (philosophy, religion, art and technology) and other meta-sciences (philosophy of science, sociology of the scientific knowledge, scientometrics etc.);
• history of specific disciplines (scientific theories, world views, scholars and scientific institutions);
• history of scientific institutions researching the history of science;
• tools and techniques for research in the history of scienceand teaching of the history of science.

Particular importance is placed on:

• the Polish contribution to science;
• mutual interactions of the Polish science and the foreign science;
• international collaboration regarding the history of science;
• open science regarding the history of science (including digital libraries) both on a national and international level;
• critical appraisal of bibliometrics in the light of the history of science (cf. bookmark:  Counteracting erroneous interpretations of bibliometrics ).

Note:

The texts published in the journal are in the form of research articles or, in exceptional cases, research notes, and also interviews, memoirs, and reports.

A research note is a short research article intended to present, in a synthetic way, an important issue. The research note is limited to 2,000 words, including bibliography, and to 6 pages, including illustrations.

The language of the publications

Polish and English are fully eligible languages of the publications (other languages are permissible in exceptional and duly justified cases).

1. “Editorial”;
2. “Workshop of the Historian of Science” (the section dedicated to the analysis of methods and tools for research in the history of science);
3. “Teaching the history of science”;
4. “Focal point” (the section dedicated to discussing the achievements of scholars or the research issues);
5. “Science in Poland”;
6. “Science in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe”;
7. “Science in a European and global context”;
8. “Science without borders” (the section dedicated to the analysis of genesis, content and reception of scientific “products”, e.g. theories or scientific instruments);
9. “History of scientific knowledge” (the section dedicated to the analysis of genesis, content and reception of scientific “products”, e.g. theories or scientific instruments);
10. “Bibliometrics, science policy, scholarly communication” (cf. bookmark: Counteracting erroneous interpretations of bibliometrics);
11. “Varia”;
12. “Presentations and reviews”;
13. “Discussions and polemics”;
14. “Letters to the Editor”;
15. “Scientific chronicle” (news and conference reports, report on the activity of the PAU Commission on the History of Science);
16. “In memoriam”.

The journal has been published annually since 1999 by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

From 1999 to 2007, it had been published under the title Prace Komisji Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności (Proceedings of the Commission on the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences), then from 2009 to 2015 – under the title Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU (Proceedings of the PAU Commission on the History of Science).

Until 2012 it had been published in a printed (paper) form, and since 2013 it has been published in an electronic form and in print (paper).

In 2014, the journal became the first in Poland peer-reviewed open access journal devoted to the history of science. Since that year it has been issued under the Creative Commons license.

Under the court decision of the Sąd Okręgowy w Krakowie Wydział I Cywilny, reference number Sygn. akt Ns Rej. Pr. 115/16 of July 4, 2016, the name of the journal was changed to: Studia Historiae Scientiarum. 

Note:

The historical predecessor of this journal were Prace Komisji Medycyny i Nauk Matematyczno-Przyrodniczych Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności (Proceedings of the Commission of the History of Medicine and Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences), which were irregularly published in 1939 (vol. 1), 1949 (vols. 2, 3.1, 3.2), 1950 (vol. 3.3), 1952 (vols 4.1, 4.2) and 1953 (vol. 4.3) [published after the activity of the Academy had been suspended].