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British Journal for the History of Mathematics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 118 / 254 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Mathematics (miscellaneous) | 91 / 119 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Education | 1334 / 1698 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
British Journal for the History of Mathematics is Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 118 of 254), Q4 in Mathematics (miscellaneous) (rank 91 of 119) and Q4 in Education (rank 1334 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
British Journal for the History of Mathematics is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.109, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
British Journal for the History of Mathematics is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2637-5451 and its online ISSN is 2637-5494.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
British Journal for the History of Mathematics has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #167 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
British Journal for the History of Mathematics published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 28. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 75 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31.8%), United States (14.5%) and Spain (5.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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