Reshaping Scientific Journals. Applied Science and its audience under Franco (1939–1966)

ABSTRACT This article aims to examine the material aspects within the social status of the scientific journals under Franco. Working with a broad landscape of Official scientific journals from different Institutes on Applied Science of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), I intend to examine those publications, their forms, sections, illustrations, and usages and connect them with the places and institutions involved in their production, transmission, and reception. With a selective exposition of arguments, I intend to provide a clear and consistent explanation of how Official scientific publications played an active role in supporting and shaping the figure of the legitimated scientist but also the places, actors, and products that belonged to the Spanish scientific field under Franco.