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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI/SCIE/SSCI. Published by University of California Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1939-1811Verify ISSN ↗1939-182XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 133 / 254 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences is Q3 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 133 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.220, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences is published by University of California Press. Its print ISSN is 1939-1811 and its online ISSN is 1939-182X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 41. 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 States (45.5%), Germany (11.8%) and United Kingdom (7.9%).
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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