Isis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press for the History of Science Society.

The publication of the journal was interrupted in 1914 by the German invasion of Belgium during World War I, and resumed in 1919.

[6][7] In 1924, the History of Science Society[8] was founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson to secure the future of Isis.

[9] In a paper, Why Isis, Sarton explains that the choice of the name for his journal was made rather unconsciously, after having been introduced to Egyptology during a visit to the Egyptian section of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in The Netherlands.

It is sometimes incorrectly written ISIS, but using all upper-case letters suggests that the title is an acronym, which it is not; this is a particularly unfortunate mistake, since it could create an association with the militant Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.