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Cultural History is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
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ISSN 2045-290XVerify ISSN ↗2045-2918Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 838 / 1936 | 56th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 803 / 1434 | 44th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 614 / 745 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Cultural History is Q2 in History (rank 838 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 803 of 1434) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 614 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Cultural History 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.142, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Cultural History is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 2045-290X and its online ISSN is 2045-2918.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cultural History has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #380 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Cultural History published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 31. 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 74 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (14.2%), United States (12.8%) and Germany (10.8%).
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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