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Business History Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0007-6805Verify ISSN ↗2044-768XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 105 / 1936 | 94th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 137 / 235 | 41st | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 301 / 456 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1926–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Business History Review is Q1 in History (rank 105 of 1936), Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 137 of 235) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 301 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Business History Review is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.306, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Business History Review is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0007-6805 and its online ISSN is 2044-768X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Human resources and industrial relations.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Business History and Economic History field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Business History Review has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 0.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #535 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Business History Review published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 134. 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 54 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.2%), United Kingdom (19.4%) and Canada (9.3%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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