Publications

The Centre issues an electronic preprint series RePoSS that publishes preprints, manuscripts of talks, student works (e.g. Masters theses) etc. within science studies.

The preprint series Hosta published preprints, manuscripts etc within history of science.

A list of dissertations and theses written by students at the department can be found through the menu to the left.

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Martin-Nielsen, J. (2015). Review of James Turner’s ‘Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities’. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 51(3), 340-341. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21737

Heymann, M. (2022). Review of Arne Kaijser / Markku Lehtonen / Jan-Henrik Meyer et al. (eds.): Engaging The Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present, Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press 2021. Sehepunkte, 22(10). http://www.sehepunkte.de/2022/10/36446.html

Kragh, H. (2002). (Review of:) A. Pais, The Genius of Science: A Portrait of 20th Century Physicists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 33, 357-359.

Wray, K. B. (2018). Review of A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism, by Paul Dicken. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(1), 205-206. Article 10.1080/00048402.2016.1274770. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1274770

Wray, K. B. & Andersen, L. E. (2018). Retractions in Science. Scientometrics, 117(3), 2009-2019. Article https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2922-4.

Andersen, L. E. & Wray, K. B. (2023). Rethinking the Value of Author Contribution Statements in Light of How Research Teams Respond to Retractions. Episteme, 20(2), 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2021.25

Wray, K. B. (2018). Resisting Scientific Realism. Cambridge University Press.

Wray, K. B. & Andersen, L. E. (2020). Reporting the discovery of new chemical elements: Working in different worlds, only 25 years apart. Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry, 22(2), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-019-09348-1

Kragh, H. (2000). Relativity and quantum theory from Sommerfeld to Dirac. Annalen der Physik, 9, 961-975.

Schindler, S. (2007). Rehabilitating theory: The Refusal of the bottom-up construction of Scientific Phenomena. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 38(1), 160-184.

Martin-Nielsen, J. (2010). Redefining What Matters: Syntactic Explanation in American Linguistics, 1955–1970. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 55(3), 331-358.

Wray, K. B. (2021). Reassessing Kuhn’s Theoretical Monism: Addressing the Pluralists’ Challenge. In Interpreting Kuhn: Critical Essays (pp. 222-237). Cambridge University Press.

Andersen, L. E. (2022). Reading Mathematical Proofs as Narratives. In M. S. Morgan, K. M. Hajek & D. J. Berry (Eds.), Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 (pp. 391-404). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004329

Nielsen, B. L., Pontoppidan, B., Sillasen, M. K., Mogensen, A. & Nielsen, K. (2013). QUEST - et storskalaprojekt til udvikling af naturfagsundervisning. MONA - Matematik- og Naturfagsdidaktik, 2013(2), 49.

Kragh, H. (2014). Quantum theory. In H. Slotten (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology vol. 2 (pp. 317-319). Oxford University Press.

Kristensen, M. S., Paludan, K., Larsen, C. G., Zachariae, C. O., Deleuran, B. W., Jensen, P. K., Jørgensen, P. & Thestrup-Pedersen, K. (1991). Quantitative determination of IL-1 alpha-induced IL-8 mRNA levels in cultured human keratinocytes, dermal fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and monocytes. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 97(3), 506-10.

Nielsen, K., Nielsen, B. L., Pontoppidan, B. & Sillasen, M. (2013). Qualifying in-service education of Science Teachers (QUEST): a Danish large-scale, long-term, collaborative TPD-project. Poster session presented at ESERA , Nicosia, Cyprus.

Knudsen, H. & Nielsen, H. (2012). Pursuing common cultural ideals: Niels Bohr, neutrality, and international scientific collaboration during the inter-war period. In R. Lettervall, G. Somsen & S. Widmalm (Eds.), Neutrality in Twentieth century Europe: Intersections of Science, Culture and Politics after the First World War (pp. 115-139). Routledge.

Ledderer, L. K., Nielsen, K. H., Skodborg, L. & Fage-Butler, A. (2026). Public trust and mistrust of COVID-19 vaccines: A systematic meta-narrative review. Vaccine, 69, Article 127947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127947

Fage-Butler, A., Ledderer, L. K. & Nielsen, K. H. (2022). Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review. Public Understanding of Science, 31(7), 832 –846. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221110028

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