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Bulgarian Historical Review is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. Published by Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite.
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ISSN 0204-8906Verify ISSN ↗2815-2905Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1532 / 1936 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 2001–2007), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Bulgarian Historical Review is Q4 in History (rank 1532 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulgarian Historical Review is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Bulgarian Historical Review is published by Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite. Its print ISSN is 0204-8906 and its online ISSN is 2815-2905.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulgarian Historical Review has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,214 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Bulgarian Historical Review published 57 papers in 2025. 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 34 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Bulgaria (67.6%), Montenegro (8.8%) and Poland (5.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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