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Contributions to the History of Concepts is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Berghahn Journals.
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ISSN 1807-9326Verify ISSN ↗1874-656XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 596 / 1936 | 69th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1131 / 1530 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–2025 (also 2005–2009), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Contributions to the History of Concepts is Q2 in History (rank 596 of 1936) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1131 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Contributions to the History of Concepts 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
Contributions to the History of Concepts is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 1807-9326 and its online ISSN is 1874-656X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contributions to the History of Concepts has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #581 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Contributions to the History of Concepts published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 21. 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 36 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from Denmark (19.4%), Finland (13.9%) and Germany (12%).
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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