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Journal of Migration History is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2351-9916Verify ISSN ↗2351-9924Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1011 / 1936 | 47th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 910 / 1434 | 36th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 412 / 536 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1313 / 1530 | 14th | Q4 |
| Demography | 122 / 140 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of Migration History is Q3 in History (rank 1011 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 910 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 412 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Migration History is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.119, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Journal of Migration History is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2351-9916 and its online ISSN is 2351-9924.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Migration History has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #691 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Migration History published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 23. 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 94 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.6%), Netherlands (13.3%) and United Kingdom (9.6%).
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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