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Historia y Comunicacion Social is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad Complutense Madrid.
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ISSN 1137-0734Verify ISSN ↗1988-3056Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad Complutense Madrid
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 614 / 1936 | 68th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1142 / 1530 | 25th | Q3 |
| Communication | 417 / 541 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Historia y Comunicacion Social is Q2 in History (rank 614 of 1936), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1142 of 1530) and Q4 in Communication (rank 417 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Historia y Comunicacion Social 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 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.240, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
Historia y Comunicacion Social is published by Universidad Complutense Madrid. Its print ISSN is 1137-0734 and its online ISSN is 1988-3056.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Historia y Comunicacion Social has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Historia y Comunicacion Social published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 79. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Spain (86.1%), Mexico (3.7%) and Argentina (1.5%). 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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