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Contemporary British History is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 176 / 1936 | 90th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 288 / 1434 | 79th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 371 / 745 | 50th | Q2 |
| Development | 212 / 314 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Safety Research | 78 / 108 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
Contemporary British History is Q1 in History (rank 176 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 288 of 1434) and Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 371 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Contemporary British History 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.317, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
Contemporary British History is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1361-9462 and its online ISSN is 1743-7997.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary British History has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #324 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Contemporary British History published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 54. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (72.7%), France (7.3%) and United States (5.2%). 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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