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Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0308-6534Verify ISSN ↗1743-9329Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 325 / 1936 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 447 / 745 | 40th | Q3 |
| Development | 239 / 314 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is Q1 in History (rank 325 of 1936), Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 447 of 745) and Q4 in Development (rank 239 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.436, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0308-6534 and its online ISSN is 1743-9329.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #324 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History published 138 papers in 2025. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (25.5%), United States (21.7%) and Australia (13.6%).
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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