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Journal of Scottish Historical Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
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ISSN 1748-538XVerify ISSN ↗1755-1749Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 994 / 1936 | 48th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 898 / 1434 | 37th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 405 / 536 | 24th | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 258 / 283 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies is Q3 in History (rank 994 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 898 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 405 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 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 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1748-538X and its online ISSN is 1755-1749.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,280 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 32. 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 16 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (100%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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