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Continuity and Change is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Liverpool University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0268-4160Verify ISSN ↗1469-218XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool 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 | 373 / 1936 | 80th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 177 / 286 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Continuity and Change is Q1 in History (rank 373 of 1936) and Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 177 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Continuity and Change 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 1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.387, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
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.
Continuity and Change is published by Liverpool University Press. Its print ISSN is 0268-4160 and its online ISSN is 1469-218X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Continuity and Change has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #984 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Continuity and Change published 44 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 79 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (45.5%), United States (15.8%) and Belgium (7.6%).
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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