期刊缩写       SCIENCE

期刊全称       SCIENCE 科学

期刊ISSN      0036-8075

2013-2014最新影响因子     31.477

期刊官方网站       http://www.sciencemag.org/

期刊投稿网址       http://www.submit2science.org/ws/menu.asp

通讯方式       AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, 1200 NEW YORK AVE, NW, WASHINGTON, USA, DC, 20005

涉及的研究方向    综合性期刊-综合性期刊

出版国家       UNITED STATES

出版周期       Weekly

出版年份       1880

年文章数       841

 

 

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Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to a body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist.

 

Since classical antiquity, science as a type of knowledge has been closely linked to philosophy. In medieval times foundation for scientific method was laid which emphasized on experimental data and reproducibility of its results. In the early modern period the words "science" and "philosophy of nature" were sometimes used interchangeably.By the 17th century, natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was considered a separate branch of philosophy.

 

In modern usage, "science" most often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, not only the knowledge itself. It is also often restricted to those branches of study that seek to explain the phenomena of the material universe. In the 17th and 18th centuries scientists increasingly sought to formulate knowledge in terms of laws of nature such as Newton's laws of motion. And over the course of the 19th century, the word "science" became increasingly associated with the scientific method itself, as a disciplined way to study the natural world, including physics, chemistry, geology and biology. It is in the 19th century also that the term scientist was created by the naturalist-theologian William Whewell to distinguish those who sought knowledge on nature from those who sought other types of knowledge.

 

However, "science" has also continued to be used in a broad sense to denote reliable and teachable knowledge about a topic, as reflected in modern terms like library science or computer science. This is also reflected in the names of some areas of academic study such as "social science" or "political science".