Foundations of Science is a peer-reviewed

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 interdisciplinary

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 academic journal

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 focussing on methodological

Methodology

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 and philosophical

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 topics concerning the structure and the growth of science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

. It is the official journal of the Association for Foundations of Science, Language and Cognition and is published quarterly by Springer Science+Business Media

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- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

. The journal was established in 1995. The editor in chief

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 is Diederik Aerts.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index

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, Cengage

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, EBSCO Databases

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, FRANCIS

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, Google Scholar

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, Mathematical Reviews

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, PASCAL, Science Citation Index Expanded

Science Citation Index

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, Scopus

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, and Zentralblatt MATH

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External links

• Journal page at the Free University of Brussels
  Free University of Brussels
  The Free University of Brussels was a university in Brussels, Belgium. In 1969, it split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel....