Abstract: This paper analyses three centuries of developing German-language philosophy journals, from the first journals published in 1665 to those from the first decade of post-WWII recovery. Relying upon two bibliographies of philosophical journals collected in the 1970s, one by Joachim Kirchner and one by Wolfram Hogrebe, Rudolf Kamp, and Gert Konig, we attained a dataset of 607 journals.To analyse the population of periodicals, we identified three key components: the longevity of each journal and the growth rate and the continuity of the body of the ...
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