Its interdisciplinary approach is intended to foster a more comprehensive understanding of the sciences and the contexts in which they develop. Each article appearing in Perspectives on Science will provide the reader with at least two of the three perspectives on their subject. The journal fosters historiographical works combining social and institutional analyses of science, as well as analyses of experiments, practices, concepts, and theories. All papers consist of original research drawing upon the most recent scholarship. Essay book reviews appear regularly.
All contributions are peer-reviewed, as well as evaluated by the editor and associate editors.
The Board of Advisory Editors is deliberately drawn from a wide range of subdisciplines within history, philosophy, and sociology of science.