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Historical Materialism is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), ABDC C, WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Brill.
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ISSN 1465-4466Verify ISSN ↗1569-206XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 204 / 1936 | 89th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 384 / 745 | 48th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 388 / 744 | 47th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 802 / 1530 | 47th | Q3 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 173 / 289 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Historical Materialism is Q1 in History (rank 204 of 1936), Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 384 of 745) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 388 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Historical Materialism is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.378, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
Historical Materialism is published by Brill. Its print ISSN is 1465-4466 and its online ISSN is 1569-206X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Economic history.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Historical Materialism has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #160 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Historical Materialism published 61 papers in 2025. 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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (20.2%), United States (16.9%) and Canada (12.9%).
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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