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Literature / Source Database:
Heritage Science
Description
Heritage Science is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research covering scientific, mathematical and computational methods and analysis of objects, materials, artefacts and artworks of cultural and historical significance.
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Herit. Sci. |
| Languages |
English |
| First year |
2013 |
| Impact factor |
1.902 |
| Editor |
Richard Brereton |
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Status
active
Indexing
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE); AATA Online; Scopus; CAS; DOAJ; Academic OneFile; Health Reference Center Academic; OCLC; Summon by ProQuest
Subject
Source type
Journal
Publisher
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2050-7445
First volume
1
Last volume
8+
Publish city
London
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free access |
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for subscriber |
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not available |
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Description
Heritage Science is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research covering: - Understanding of the manufacturing processes, provenances, and environmental contexts of material types, objects, and buildings, of cultural significance including their historical significance.
- Understanding and prediction of physico-chemical and biological degradation processes of cultural artefacts, including climate change, and predictive heritage studies.
- Development and application of analytical and imaging methods or equipments for non-invasive, non-destructive or portable analysis of artwork and objects of cultural significance to identify component materials, degradation products and deterioration markers.
- Development and application of invasive and destructive methods for understanding the provenance of objects of cultural significance.
- Development and critical assessment of treatment materials and methods for artwork and objects of cultural significance.
- Development and application of statistical methods and algorithms for data analysis to further understanding of culturally significant objects.
- Publication of reference and corpus datasets as supplementary information to the statistical and analytical studies above.
- Description of novel technologies that can assist in the understanding of cultural heritage.
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