Focus and Scope

The International Review for Humboldt Studies, HiN – Alexander von Humboldt im Netz (ISSN: 1617-5239), is a biannual, peer-reviewed open access journal. It has been online since 2000 and is available free of charge at www.hin-online.de. The journal is now the standard reference point for the study of Alexander von Humboldt.

Each of HiN’s issues contains 6-10 refereed articles. It is listed at the MLA Directory of Periodicals, the Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory, and the DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals.

The journal’s recorded usage statistics since May 2005 indicates that each issue of HiN reaches anywhere from 5,000 to 45,000 readers. HiN search queries typically come from an international, mostly Spanish- and English-speaking, community with specific interest in social and cultural history, as well as in the history of science and intellectual history more broadly.

HiN offers the scholarly community a nexus for  the different branches, traditions, and languages of Humboldt Research. Its aim is to consolidate and internationalize Humboldt Studies and to provide its findings to a larger community of readers. This commitment is as important to HiN as it was to the author of Kosmos.

There are no author charges (commonly known as APCs) prior to publication, and any reader may download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use at no cost.