Gnomon (journal)
Review journal and bibliography in the classics
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Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft (Gnomon: Critical Journal of the Entire Field of Scholarship on Classical Antiquity) is a German review journal covering the classics.[1] It was established in 1925, first published by Verlag Weidmann and since 1949 by Verlag C. H. Beck. The journal appears in 8 issues each year and contains reviews, obituaries, and notices. Since 1950, odd-numbered volumes contain a "Bibliographic Supplement" of new books, dissertations and submitted journal articles, in addition to the regular contents. The editors-in-chief are Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Martin Hose, Henner von Hesberg, Ernst Vogt, and Paul Zanker.
| Discipline | Classics, Archaeology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1925–present |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Gnomon |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0017-1417 |
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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities.[2] In both 2007 and 2011 the journal received an "INT1" ranking (internationally recognised with high visibility) from the European Reference Index for the Humanities.[3]
Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank
In 1994 the Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank (Gnomon bibliographic database) was established, containing data on Gnomon articles, monographs, book chapters, journal articles from over 200 classics journals.[4] Entries were in German or English. Since the beginning of 1996 there has been a sister project, Gnomon Online, which provides access to the database through the internet and is updated weekly.[5]
List of editors
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
- 1925–1933: Ludwig Curtius
- 1925–1933: Ludwig Deubner
- 1925–1933: Eduard Fraenkel
- 1925–1962: Matthias Gelzer
- 1925–1933: Ernst Hoffmann
- 1925–1933: Werner Jaeger
- 1925–1933: Walther Kranz
- 1925–1933: Karl Meister
- 1925–1933: Peter von der Mühll
- 1925–1933: Karl Reinhardt
- 1925–1943: Gerhart Rodenwaldt
- 1925–1933: Wilhelm Schubart
- 1925–1933: Wilhelm Schulze
- 1925–1933: Eduard Schwartz
- 1925–1933: Johannes Stroux
- 1925–1933: Wilhelm Weber
- 1930–1943: Richard Harder
- 1940–1994: Erich Burck
- 1949–1965: Friedrich Matz
- 1954–1977: Walter Marg
- 1963–1978: Hermann Strasburger
- 1966–1977: Nikolaus Himmelmann
- 1975–2017: Ernst Vogt
- since 1978: Paul Zanker
- 1979–1995: Walter Schmitthenner
- 1988–2007: Carl Joachim Classen
- 1996–2025: Hans-Joachim Gehrke
- since 2000: Henner von Hesberg
- since 2000: Martin Hose
- since 2010: Christoph Horn
- since 2010: Katharina Volk
- since 2017: Martin Bentz
- since 2017: Ruth Bielfeldt
- since 2017: Peter Eich
- since 2026: Johannes Wienand
