Indogermanische Forschungen (German: Indo-European Research) is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 of linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

. It focuses primarily on Indo-European studies

Indo-European studies

Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European , and its speakers, the...

, but also publishes contributions on other languages and linguistic fields. It was established in 1892 by Karl Brugmann

Karl Brugmann

Karl Brugmann was a German linguist. He is a towering figure in Indo-European linguistics.-Biography:He was educated at Halle and Leipzig. He was instructor in the gymnasium at Wiesbaden and at Leipzig, and in 1872-77 was assistant at the Russian Institute of Classical Philology at the latter place...

 and Wilhelm Streitberg

Wilhelm Streitberg

Wilhelm August Streitberg was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages...

, and is presently published on an annual basis by Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter

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. The current editors in chief

Editor in chief

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 are Wolfgang P. Schmid and Eckhard Eggers, both from the University of Göttingen.