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Historical Records of Australian Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI/SCIE. Published by CSIRO Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0727-3061Verify ISSN ↗1448-5508Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 377 / 692 | 45th | Q3 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 158 / 254 | 37th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 591 / 744 | 20th | Q4 |
| Demography | 117 / 140 | 16th | Q4 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 46 / 48 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–2025 (also 2000–2002, 1998, 1996, 1989, 1985–1987, 1980–1983), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Historical Records of Australian Science is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 377 of 692), Q3 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 158 of 254) and Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 591 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Historical Records of Australian Science is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.106, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Historical Records of Australian Science is published by CSIRO Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0727-3061 and its online ISSN is 1448-5508.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Historical Records of Australian Science has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #276 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Historical Records of Australian Science published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 39. 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 88 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Australia (87.9%), United Kingdom (3.2%) and United States (2.8%). 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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