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Journal of the Philosophy of History is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1872-261XVerify ISSN ↗1872-2636Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 383 / 1936 | 80th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 97 / 254 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Journal of the Philosophy of History is Q1 in History (rank 383 of 1936) and Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 97 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Philosophy of 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.359, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of the Philosophy of History is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1872-261X and its online ISSN is 1872-2636.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Philosophy of History has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #473 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of the Philosophy of History published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.4%), United Kingdom (13.8%) and Finland (9.7%).
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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