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History of Political Thought is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. Published by Imprint Academic.
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ISSN 0143-781XVerify ISSN ↗2051-2988Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 648 / 1936 | 66th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 381 / 891 | 57th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1166 / 1530 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1987, 1984), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
History of Political Thought is Q2 in History (rank 648 of 1936), Q2 in Philosophy (rank 381 of 891) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1166 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
History of Political Thought is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
History of Political Thought is published by Imprint Academic. Its print ISSN is 0143-781X and its online ISSN is 2051-2988.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
History of Political Thought has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #619 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
History of Political Thought published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 52. 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 75 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.7%), United Kingdom (11.3%) and Italy (10.7%).
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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