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History of Political Economy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Duke University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0018-2702Verify ISSN ↗1527-1919Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 158 / 1936 | 91st | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 519 / 755 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1986), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
History of Political Economy is Q1 in History (rank 158 of 1936) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 519 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
History of Political Economy 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.513, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
History of Political Economy is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 0018-2702 and its online ISSN is 1527-1919.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Economic history.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
History of Political Economy has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #232 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
History of Political Economy published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 91. 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 90 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (33%), France (21.5%) and United Kingdom (10%).
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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