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Geschichte und Gesellschaft is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. Published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG.
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ISSN 0340-613XVerify ISSN ↗2196-9000Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 675 / 1936 | 65th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 675 / 1221 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025 (also 1999–2012, 1988, 1985, 1982), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Geschichte und Gesellschaft is Q2 in History (rank 675 of 1936) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 675 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Geschichte und Gesellschaft 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.121, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
Geschichte und Gesellschaft is published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG. Its print ISSN is 0340-613X and its online ISSN is 2196-9000.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Geschichte und Gesellschaft has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Geschichte und Gesellschaft published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 51. 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 25 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Germany (74%), United Kingdom (12%) and Switzerland (4%). 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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