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Indian Economic and Social History Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), formerly ABDC C, WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0019-4646Verify ISSN ↗0973-0893Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 640 / 1936 | 66th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 213 / 286 | 25th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 687 / 755 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Indian Economic and Social History Review is Q2 in History (rank 640 of 1936), Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 213 of 286) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 687 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Economic and Social History Review is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 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 Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Indian Economic and Social History Review is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0019-4646 and its online ISSN is 0973-0893.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated C in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Economic and Social History Review has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #603 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Indian Economic and Social History Review published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 40. 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 82 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (49.4%), United States (17.1%) and United Kingdom (6.7%).
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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