Gesnerus

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title: "Gesnerus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["history-of-science-journals", "history-of-medicine-journals", "academic-journals-established-in-1943", "academic-journals-associated-with-learned-and-professional-societies-of-switzerland", "multilingual-journals", "biannual-journals", "creative-commons-attribution-licensed-journals"] description: "Academic journal" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesnerus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Academic journal ::

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Field	Value
title	Gesnerus
image	Gesnerus.png
former_name	Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences
abbreviation	Gesnerus
discipline	History of medicine, History of science
language	English, French, German, Italian
editor	Vincent Barras, Hubert Steinke
publisher	Schwabe Verlag
country	Switzerland
history	1864–2020
frequency	Biannual
openaccess	Yes
license	CC BY-SA 4.0
ISSN	0016-9161
eISSN	2297-7953
LCCN	2022204026
OCLC	956549028
website	http://www.gesnerus.ch/
link1	https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/volumes?UID=ges-001
link1-name	Online Archive 1943-2002
link2	https://www.schwabeonline.ch/schwabe-xaveropp/elibrary/start.xav#elibrary%2F%2F*%5B%40attr_id%3D%27Ges_productpage%27%5D__1604410137771
link2-name	Online Archive 2003-2020
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| title = Gesnerus | image = Gesnerus.png | former_name = Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences | abbreviation = Gesnerus | discipline = History of medicine, History of science | language = English, French, German, Italian | editor = Vincent Barras, Hubert Steinke | publisher = Schwabe Verlag | country = Switzerland | history = 1864–2020 | frequency = Biannual | openaccess = Yes | license = CC BY-SA 4.0 | impact = | impact-year = | ISSN = 0016-9161 | eISSN = 2297-7953 | CODEN = | JSTOR = | LCCN = 2022204026 | OCLC = 956549028 | website = http://www.gesnerus.ch/ | link1 = https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/volumes?UID=ges-001 | link1-name = Online Archive 1943-2002 | link2 = https://www.schwabeonline.ch/schwabe-xaveropp/elibrary/start.xav#elibrary%2F%2F*%5B%40attr_id%3D%27Ges_productpage%27%5D__1604410137771 | link2-name = Online Archive 2003-2020 Gesnerus was a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of medicine and science that was published by the Schwabe Verlag on behalf of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences, of which it was the official journal. It published original articles, book reviews, reports on current developments, and announcements in English, German, French, and Italian. The journal was established in 1864 and published until 2020, when it merged into the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal was abstracted and indexed in:

• EBSCO databases
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
• Mir@bel
• Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
• Scopus

References

References

1. "Journal".
2. "Gesnerus".
3. "European journal for the history of medicine and health".

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