期刊名称：SCIENCE AS CULTURE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society.
Science mediates our cultural experience. It increasingly defines what it is to be a person, through genetics, medicine and information technology. Its values get embodied and naturalized in concepts, techniques, research priorities, gadgets and advertising. Many films, artworks and novels express popular concerns about these developments.
In a society where icons of progress are drawn from science, technology and medicine, they are either celebrated or demonised. Often their progress is feared as 'unnatural', while their critics are labelled 'irrational'. Public concerns are rebuffed by ostensibly value-neutral experts and positivist polemics.
Yet the culture of science is open to study like any other culture. Cultural studies analyses the role of expertise throughout society. Many journals address the history, philosophy and social studies of science, its popularisation, and the public understanding of society.
Amidst these journals, Science as Culture is 'the only source of critique of the way science is going', as one of our readers put it. Not simply criticism, critique analyses the underlying frameworks, assumptions and terms of reference. It emphasizes the fundamental role of values, interests, ideology and purposes -- which would otherwise remain hidden in the guise of neutrality and objectivity. Science as Culture places science within the wider debate on the values which constitute culture; it is not the journal for a particular academic discipline.
Science as Culture encompasses people's experiences -- at the workplace, the cinema, the computer, the hospital, the home and the academy. The articles are readable, attractive, lively, often humorous, and always jargon-free. Science as Culture aims to be read at leisure, and to be a pleasure.
Science as Culture is currently abstracted and indexed in: British Library Inside; European Index for the Humanities; IBSS, IBZ, Alernative Press Index; Medline/PubMed; OCLC ArticleFirst Database, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, EBSCO (Sociological Collection, TOC Premier); Scopus™; and Zetoc.
Instructions to Authors
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Science as Culture Editorial Guidelines
Queries regarding submissions should be sent to the Editor, Les Levidow, at L.Levidow@open.ac.uk.
Submitted articles should follow the editorial and stylistic guidance, available here to download. Authors are expected to correct proofs of accepted articles.
Publicity statement
Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society. The journal encompasses people's experiences at various sites – the workplace, the cinema, the computer, the hospital, the home and the academy. The articles are readable, attractive, lively, often humorous, and always jargon-free. SaC aims to be read at leisure, and to be a pleasure.
Structure and content of articles
In the light of the journal's publicity statement, submissions must have the following structural and substantive features. Articles that significantly diverge will be returned to the author.
Structure: SaC articles should follow the structure below.
Abstract & Keywords
Introduction
Analytical Perspectives
Empirical Analysis
Conclusion
Abstract (200-250 words): should straightforwardly summarise the argument – rather than say what you or the article does. Avoid phrases such as ‘The article is about…', ‘The article (or author or we) examines/discusses….', ‘It is demonstrated/argued that…', etc.
Main points here should correspond to text in the Conclusion.
Keywords: 3-6 keywords should be listed after the Abstract.
Introduction: This should be written to draw in readers who are non-specialists but interested in critical perspectives. It should start with a publicly important issue – not an academic one – such as a news story, event, piece of legislation etc. It should relate to people's experience of science, technology, expertise, etc.
Regarding that issue, the Introduction should also pose general questions (not dependent upon analytical concepts) which will be answered in the conclusion and so give it coherence.
Such questions should be analytical, not only normative-prescriptive.
These questions can be followed by a brief summary of answers, corresponding to the Abstract.
Analytical perspectives: The questions in the Introduction provide a rationale for bringing in analytical perspectives relevant to a cultural analysis of technoscience. At least one concept should clearly relate to SaC themes, e.g. perspectives from STS literature and/or cultural studies.
The concepts should be adequately explained, with some direct quotations from the original authors, so that readers can judge how appropriately the article uses them. The author should explain just a few analytical concepts that will be used, rather than give a long literature survey.
Empirical Analysis: Should analyse empirical material by drawing upon analytical perspectives that were introduced earlier. This section should not introduce theories or concepts that have not been explained previously.
Conclusion: This should summarise the preceding argument by bringing together key points which already appeared in the article – rather than assume that the reader remembers them.
It should clearly answer the questions posed in the Introduction, while elaborating on key words in the title. The Conclusion also should summarise how analytical perspectives have illuminated the case. These tasks may sound obvious, but many first-draft articles neglect them.
Total length: 12k words maximum.
Submission procedure
All submissions should be made online at the Science as Culture Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this site.
Manuscripts may be submitted in any standard format, including Word, PostScript and PDF. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
Referees' criteria:
Ideally, a referee's report should explain the following:
Overall recommendation: acceptance with minor/major revisions, resubmission, reject.
How the article addresses a general issue through a specific case
How it relates to the thematic focus of SaC
What overall argument the article makes (or perhaps how/why this is unclear)
How (well) it does so, in terms of citing empirical material and relating this to analytical frameworks.
What weaknesses should be remedied, e.g. in order for the article to warrant publication, or optionally in order to improve it.
Stylistic guidelines
A Word template is available for this journal and is compatible on multiple operating systems for MS Word, Word for Mac and Open Office. Please follow the instructions for use. If you have any queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk
Before an article is accepted in final form, it must follow the stylistic guidelines below.
Easy reading: Please minimize the length of each sentence and paragraph, in order to make the reading easier. Aim for a maximum of 6-7 sentences per paragraph.
Headings: Please insert several subheadings (upper & lower-case letters in boldface), within which you can also use sub-subheadings (upper & lower-case letters in italics). As a rough guide, try to use approx. 3-5 headings for every thousand words. Each one should start on a new line.
Endnotes: Numbered notes should be used only for making substantive points and should be minimized, by integrating essential points into the main text. The published article will put all the notes at the end, just before the Bibliography/References section, so your manuscript should do likewise.
Inverted commas: These should be used only for direct quotations from public debates or from specific sources cited. Otherwise inverted commas (scare quotes) should not be used, e.g. for irony or a distancing effect; such usage substitutes for the analysis that must be done.
Quotations: Quotations should be enclosed with single quote marks, or with double marks for quotes within quotes. Long quotations should be indented, not enclosed in quote marks.
Citations/references: All references should use the Harvard style (author, year, page); each one should refer to an item in the alphabetical Bibliography. Please try to put citations at the end of a sentence, not in the middle, for easier reading.
Bibliography/references:
Standard format is similar for articles in books or journals, as follows:
Surname, Initial. (year) Title of article, Journal/Book Title, vol.(no.) pp.ii-xx (City: Publisher [if a book]).
Other information needed:
Biographical note of a couple sentences for the Contributors section, placed at the end of the article.
Optional items
Illustrations:
Please suggest some illustrations, e.g. diagrams, publicity items, photos, etc. See previous SaC issues for examples. Ideally, you would send us a good, reproducible copy of each illustration, with a permissions letter/message − or at least some guidance about how we can obtain a good original and permission. If you request permission on our behalf, then please explain that we are a relatively small-circulation journal, in order to minimize any reproduction fee. If the proposed fee is more than nominal, then we will judge whether the picture warrants the payment.
For each illustration, please suggest a caption, which may be informative and/or satirical.
Audiovisual material
Beyond the article itself, the online version can include extra material, e.g., animations, movie files, sound files and text files. Such files should be submitted after acceptance of the final manuscript, to a special email address provided for that purpose.
Please note that it is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please do not hesitate to contact our Production Department if you have any queries.
Free article access
Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk
Copyright
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. As an author, you are required to secure permission if you want to reproduce any figure, table, or extract from the text of another source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source). For further information and FAQs, please see http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/permission.asp.
Editorial Board
Editor:
Les Levidow - Open University, UK
Associate Editor:
Kean Birch - York University, Canada
Book Reviews Editor:
David Tyfield - Lancaster University, UK
Offers of book reviews are welcome, and several books are available for sending to reviewers. See the list, editorial guidance and contact email address here.
Advisory Panel:
Tom Athanasiou - Albany, California, USA
Roger Cooter - Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL, UK
Ruth Schwartz Cowan - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Giovanna Di Chiro - Mount Holyoke College, USA
Norman Diamond - Portland, USA
David Dickson - SciDev.Net, UK
Joseph Dumit - University of California, Davis, USA
Sarah Franklin - London School of Economics, UK
Ingrid Geesink - Rathenau Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
Chris Hables Gray - University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Donna Haraway - University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Cori Hayden - University of California at Berkeley, USA
Stefan Helmreich - MIT, Cambridge, USA
Andrew Jamison - Aalborg University, Denmark
Matthew Kearnes - Durham University, UK
Anne Karpf - London Metropolitan University, UK
Douglas Kellner - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Sonia Liff - Warwick Business School, UK
Maureen McNeil - Lancaster University, UK
Emily Martin - New York University, USA
Mike Michael - Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Vincent Mosco - Queen's University, Canada
Greg Myers - Lancaster University, UK
David Pingitore - Wright Institute, Berkeley, USA
Barbara Prainsack - King's College London, UK
Jenny Reardon - University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Eveleen Richards - University of NSW, Australia
Roger Smith - Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Kaushik Sunder Rajan - University of Chicago, USA
Kimberly TallBear - University of California at Berkeley, USA
Peter Taylor – U-Mass, Boston, USA
Charles Thorpe - University of California at San Diego, USA
Judy Wajcman - London School of Economics, UK
Judith Williamson - Middlesex University, UK
Langdon Winner - RPI, Troy, New York, USA
Robert M. Young - University of Sheffield, UK; Editor Emeritus
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