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Open Access - Gold Standard Indexed and Abstracted Publication and Distribution Publication Ethics Name and History Special Services to the Scholarly Community |
Aims and Scope |
| HYLE is a double-blind peer-refereed international journal dedicated to all philosophical
aspects of chemistry. Articles deal with epistemological, methodological,
foundational, and ontological problems of chemistry and its subfields;
the peculiarities of chemistry and relations to technology, other scientific
and non-scientific fields; aesthetical, ethical, and environmental matters
in chemistry; as well as philosophically relevant facets of the history,
sociology, linguistics, and education of chemistry. The journal offers
top quality original articles and
essays,
book
reviews, reports, and short
biographies.
Contributions are in English.
The journal combines general issues and special issues, such as on
Distinguished philosophers, chemists, and historians of chemistry from many different countries serve on the Editorial Board of HYLE. Our readership includes philosophers, historians of science, chemists, and chemistry teachers from over 64 countries. |
Open Access - Gold Standard |
| HYLE combines autonomous scientific quality management (double blind peer review) with modern technology of electronic production and open-access distribution of full content without any charges or author fees (gold standard). We are committed to the policy of the Budapest Open Access Initiative from 1992 and, thus, avoid obsolete, costly, time-consuming, and heteronomous procedures of traditional commercial publishers. This enables an up-to-date forum for discussion in the young field of the philosophy of chemistry and brings the international community together, without discriminating scholars from financially less developed countries.
However, we strictly object to the copy-and-paste culture of misleading open-access movements, such as DOAJ, that favor plagiarism by wanting publishers to "allow reuse and remixing of content" without permission. Instead, we protect the rights of authors by allowing them to remain copyright owners of their work. Thus, citations require full referencing of the original publication; reuse of entire works requires permission by the copyright owners. |
Indexed and Abstracted |
| HYLE is indexed/abstracted by Philosopher's Index, Chemical Abstracts, Isis Current Bibliography, ISI Web of Knowledge (Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Current Contents Arts & Humanities; Current Contents Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences), International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ), and International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature (IBR).
One of the first electronic journals in philosophy worldwide, HYLE is well connected with all major internet sites in chemistry, philosophy, history of science, and general e-journal collections and listed in all pertinent site catalogues. All papers are fully indexed by the major search engines, such as Yahoo! and Google Scholar. Free online access to full texts ensures authors of HYLE an extraordinary large readership. With over 100,000 hits and more than 20,000 individual visitors per month, HYLE is one of the most widely read philosophy journals worldwide. |
Publication and Distribution |
| HYLE is published by HYLE Publications, Berlin. Copyright is by the publisher
and the authors.
The journal is issued in electronic form once or twice a year for open access. Printed back issues were available for vols. 3-12. |
| HYLE supports and follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). |
Name and History |
| In response to a frequently asked question: The name of the journal derives from the Greek term for matter,
υλη, which was used in philosophy since Aristotle to grasp the principles of what we now call chemistry. Pronounciation is similar to the English term combination 'who-lay'.
whooo-lay
Click here to listen to the pronounication of HYLE
HYLE emerged from the former print bulletin, published since 1995, of the German working group Philosophie und Chemie, founded in Germany in 1993 by philosopher-chemists and philosophers interested in chemistry. Since 1997 HYLE has been published as an international journal, both in electronic and printed form. HYLE is the first ever journal worldwide devoted to philosophy of chemistry. In 2001 the HYLE website moved from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, to an own domain (www.hyle.org) to secure a permanent location on the internet. In 2022, HYLE ceased publication because of a lack of a sufficient number of quality submissions per year. |
Special Services to the Scholarly Community |
HYLE is more than simply a journal. Because the internet publication differs from printed matter, we are permanently developing new electronic facilities as special services to the scholarly community. At the moment HYLE website provides the following regualarly updated free services:
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