Royal Society publishing historical data 1665-2015

During the course of that project, we gathered a huge variety of data on the production and editorial aspects of the Royal Society’s publications, some of which may be useful to other scholars - and we look forward to seeing if there are scholars who can do more cunning things with it than we have the technical skills to manage!

Please note that, although we certainly do have a lot of information, the historical record is patchy, and our data reflect this. We generally have better data for the 19th and 20th centuries than we do for earlier periods. For analysis and discussion of selections from this data, we recommend you browse our growing collection of graphs and commentaries on our project website.