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French Colonial History is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Michigan State University.
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ISSN 1539-3402Verify ISSN ↗1543-7787Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Michigan State University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1888 / 1936 | 1st | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1515 / 1530 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2023, 2019–2021, 2016–2017, 2010–2014), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
French Colonial History is Q4 in History (rank 1888 of 1936) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1515 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
French Colonial 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 1st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
French Colonial History is published by Michigan State University. Its print ISSN is 1539-3402 and its online ISSN is 1543-7787.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
French Colonial History has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
French Colonial History published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 14. 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 35 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from France (35.7%), United States (35.2%) and Canada (9.5%).
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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