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Historical Social Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SSCI. Published by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
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ISSN 0172-6404Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 55 / 1936 | 97th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 447 / 1530 | 70th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 92 / 286 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
Historical Social Research is Q1 in History (rank 55 of 1936), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 447 of 1530) and Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 92 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Historical Social Research is indexed in the 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.293, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Historical Social Research is published by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Its ISSN is 0172-6404.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Historical Social Research has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Historical Social Research published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 10. 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.
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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