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Best History journals

1,933 Scopus-active journals are ranked in History. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 484 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Oeconomia Copernicana 18.9 99th Q1 SSCI – Yes
2 Political Geography 9.1 99th Q1 SSCI – No
3 Journal of Heritage Tourism 8.1 99th Q1 ESCI B No
4 Social Studies of Science 6.9 99th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
5 Contemporary Social Science 6.5 99th Q1 ESCI – No
6 Economy and Society 6.3 99th Q1 SSCI A No
7 Population Studies 6.3 99th Q1 SSCI A No
8 Social Forces 6.2 99th Q1 SSCI A No
9 Journal of Genocide Research 5.6 99th Q1 ESCI – No
10 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5.1 99th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
11 Men and Masculinities 4.9 99th Q1 SSCI – No
12 International Journal of Heritage Studies 4.7 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
13 Central Asian Survey 4.6 99th Q1 SSCI – No
14 Memory, Mind and Media 4.5 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
15 Nazhruna: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam 4.5 99th Q1 – – Yes
16 Journal of Economic History 4.3 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI A* No
17 Public Opinion Quarterly 4.2 99th Q1 SSCI A No
18 Global Constitutionalism 4.1 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 4.1 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
20 Archaeological Prospection 4 98th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
21 World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures 4 98th Q1 – – No
22 Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 3.9 98th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
23 Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies 3.9 98th Q1 – – No
24 Ethnopolitics 3.8 98th Q1 ESCI – No
25 Journal of Global History 3.8 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
26 Nationalities Papers 3.8 98th Q1 SSCI – No
27 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 3.8 98th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
28 American Antiquity 3.7 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
29 Historic Environment: Policy and Practice 3.7 98th Q1 AHCI – No
30 Past and Present 3.7 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
31 Economic History Review 3.6 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI A* No
32 Archival Science 3.6 98th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3.6 98th Q1 AHCI – No
34 Journal of Management History 3.5 98th Q1 ESCI B No
35 Ulumuna 3.4 98th Q1 – – Yes
36 Historical Methods 3.3 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
37 Internet Histories 3.3 98th Q1 ESCI – No
38 Theory and Society 3.3 98th Q1 SSCI – No
39 Journal of Human Rights Practice 3.2 98th Q1 ESCI – No
40 Archaeometry 3.2 97th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
41 British Politics 3.2 97th Q1 SSCI – No
42 Insight on Africa 3.2 97th Q1 ESCI – No
43 Cliometrica 3.1 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI C No
44 Asian Studies Review 3.1 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
45 FWU Journal of Social Sciences 3.1 97th Q1 ESCI – No
46 Tel Aviv 3.1 97th Q1 AHCI – No
47 Business History 3 97th Q1 SSCI A* No
48 Built Heritage 3 97th Q1 – – Yes
49 Critical Military Studies 3 97th Q1 ESCI – No
50 Contemporary Southeast Asia 2.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
51 Defence Studies 2.9 97th Q1 – – No
52 Historical Life Course Studies 2.9 97th Q1 – – Yes
53 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 2.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
54 Turkish Studies 2.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
55 Civil Wars 2.8 97th Q1 ESCI – No
56 Historical Social Research 2.8 97th Q1 SSCI – No
57 Journal of Eurasian Studies 2.8 97th Q1 – – Yes
58 Middle East Critique 2.8 97th Q1 SSCI – No
59 Capital and Class 2.8 96th Q1 ESCI B No
60 Canadian Slavonic Papers 2.8 96th Q1 ESCI – No
61 Russian Journal of Economics 2.7 96th Q1 – C Yes
62 Canadian Journal of African Studies 2.7 96th Q1 ESCI – No
63 Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis 2.7 96th Q1 – – Yes
64 Political Theory 2.7 96th Q1 SSCI – No
65 Europe-Asia Studies 2.6 96th Q1 SSCI B No
66 Explorations in Economic History 2.6 96th Q1 SSCI A No
67 International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2.6 96th Q1 AHCI – No
68 Knowledge Cultures 2.6 96th Q1 – – No
69 New Perspectives on Turkey 2.6 96th Q1 SSCI – No
70 Philosophy of Science 2.6 96th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
71 European Review of Economic History 2.5 96th Q1 SSCI A No
72 Management and Organizational History 2.5 96th Q1 SSCI C No
73 International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences 2.5 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
74 Journal of Applied History 2.5 96th Q1 – – No
75 Religion 2.5 96th Q1 AHCI – No
76 Journal of Intercultural Studies 2.4 96th Q1 ESCI – No
77 New Research of Tuva 2.4 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
78 Journal of South Asian Development 2.4 95th Q1 SSCI C No
79 American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research 2.4 95th Q1 SSCI – No
80 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2.4 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
81 Postcolonial Studies 2.4 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
82 AlterNative 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – No
83 American Museum Novitates 2.3 95th Q1 SCIE – No
84 Aries 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – No
85 Baltic Region 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
86 Historical Encounters 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
87 Journal of Education Culture and Society 2.3 95th Q1 – – Yes
88 Levant 2.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
89 Palestine Exploration Quarterly 2.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
90 Narrative Inquiry 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
91 Acta Borealia 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI – No
92 Bulletin of ASOR 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI – No
93 East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2.2 95th Q1 – – Yes
94 eTropic 2.2 95th Q1 – – Yes
95 History and Theory 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
96 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 2.2 95th Q1 SSCI – No
97 Modern China 2.2 95th Q1 SSCI – No
98 History of the Family 2.2 94th Q1 SSCI – No
99 Business History Review 2.1 94th Q1 SSCI A No
100 Scandinavian Economic History Review 2.1 94th Q1 ESCI C No
101 Hamdard Islamicus 2.1 94th Q1 – – Yes
102 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2.1 94th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
103 Latin American Antiquity 2.1 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
104 Modern Intellectual History 2.1 94th Q1 AHCI – No
105 TalTech Journal of European Studies 2.1 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
106 Accounting History 2 94th Q1 ESCI A No
107 Domes : Digest of Middle East Studies 2 94th Q1 ESCI – No
108 European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2 94th Q1 – – Yes
109 Global Food History 2 94th Q1 – – No
110 History of the Human Sciences 2 94th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
111 National Identities 2 94th Q1 ESCI – No
112 TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 2 94th Q1 ESCI – No
113 Comparative Southeast European Studies 1.9 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
114 History of Science 1.9 94th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
115 Medieval Archaeology 1.9 94th Q1 AHCI – No
116 Modern Asian Studies 1.9 94th Q1 SSCI – No
117 Records of the Australian Museum 1.9 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
118 Economic History of Developing Regions 1.9 93rd Q1 ESCI C No
119 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 1.9 93rd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
120 Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 1.9 93rd Q1 – – No
121 History and Anthropology 1.9 93rd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
122 International Journal of Cultural Property 1.9 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
123 Journal of Indonesian Islam 1.9 93rd Q1 – – Yes
124 Journal of Roman Studies 1.9 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
125 Enterprise and Society 1.8 93rd Q1 SSCI A No
126 HSE Social and Education History 1.8 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
127 Immigrants and Minorities 1.8 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
128 Intelligence and National Security 1.8 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
129 Journal of Al-Tamaddun 1.8 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
130 Journal of Cultural Analytics 1.8 93rd Q1 – – No
131 Journal of Eastern African Studies 1.8 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
132 Journal of Modern History 1.8 93rd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
133 Journal of Philosophy of Education 1.8 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
134 Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 1.8 93rd Q1 – – No
135 Review of Central and East European Law 1.8 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
136 Voprosy Ekonomiki 1.8 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
137 Journal of Labor and Society 1.7 92nd Q1 ESCI C No
138 Africa Review 1.7 92nd Q1 ESCI – No
139 British Journal for the History of Science 1.7 92nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
140 Current History 1.7 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
141 Fascism 1.7 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
142 Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization 1.7 92nd Q1 – – Yes
143 Journal of Modern Italian Studies 1.7 92nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
144 Journal of Urban History 1.7 92nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
145 Latin American Research Review 1.7 92nd Q1 SSCI – Yes
146 Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 1.7 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
147 Studies in American Political Development 1.7 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
148 Contemporary Japan 1.6 92nd Q1 – – No
149 Isis 1.6 92nd Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
150 Journal of Global Slavery 1.6 92nd Q1 ESCI – No
151 Journal of Law and Legal Reform 1.6 92nd Q1 – – Yes
152 Oral History Review 1.6 92nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
153 Scandinavian Journal of History 1.6 92nd Q1 AHCI – No
154 Secularism and Nonreligion 1.6 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
155 Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 1.6 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
156 Capitalism 1.6 91st Q1 – – No
157 Studia Historica Slovenica 1.6 91st Q1 – – No
158 Accounting Historians Journal 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI B No
159 History of Political Economy 1.5 91st Q1 SSCI A No
160 Canadian Studies in Population 1.5 91st Q1 SSCI – No
161 Eastern Journal of European Studies 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
162 Estudios Fronterizos 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
163 Historical Journal 1.5 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
164 History Compass 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI – No
165 History of Science and Technology 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
166 Information and Culture 1.5 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
167 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1.5 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
168 Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
169 Medicina Historica 1.5 91st Q1 – – No
170 Presidential Studies Quarterly 1.5 91st Q1 SSCI – No
171 Revista de Estudios Sociales 1.5 91st Q1 SSCI – Yes
172 Revista Galega de Economia 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
173 Shima 1.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
174 Speculum 1.5 91st Q1 AHCI – No
175 Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture 1.5 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
176 Labor History 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI A No
177 Anatolian Studies 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI – No
178 Asian Perspectives 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI – No
179 Asian Studies 1.4 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
180 Colombia Internacional 1.4 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
181 Contemporary British History 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI – No
182 Contemporary European History 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
183 History Workshop Journal 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
184 Interventions 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
185 Journal of Global Buddhism 1.4 90th Q1 – – Yes
186 Journal of Historical Geography 1.4 90th Q1 SSCI – No
187 Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 1.4 90th Q1 SSCI – No
188 Miqot: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman 1.4 90th Q1 – – No
189 New Testament Studies 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI – No
190 Rethinking History 1.4 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
191 Rural Landscapes 1.4 90th Q1 – – Yes
192 Si Somos Americanos 1.4 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
193 SPAL 1.4 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
194 Archives and Records 1.4 89th Q1 AHCI – No
195 Entangled Religions 1.4 89th Q1 – – Yes
196 Hesperia 1.4 89th Q1 AHCI – No
197 History of Psychology 1.4 89th Q1 SSCI – No
198 International Review of Social History 1.4 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
199 Journal of Late Antiquity 1.4 89th Q1 ESCI – No
200 Medical History 1.4 89th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
201 Historical Materialism 1.3 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI C No
202 Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 1.3 89th Q1 AHCI – No
203 Dynamics in the History of Religions 1.3 89th Q1 – – No
204 Environmental History 1.3 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
205 Global Intellectual History 1.3 89th Q1 ESCI – No
206 Holocaust Studies 1.3 89th Q1 ESCI – No
207 Journal of British Studies 1.3 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
208 Journal of Contemporary History 1.3 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
209 Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics 1.3 89th Q1 – – No
210 Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity 1.3 89th Q1 – – No
211 Muqarnas 1.3 89th Q1 AHCI – No
212 Settler Colonial Studies 1.3 89th Q1 ESCI – No
213 Terra Economicus 1.3 89th Q1 ESCI – No
214 Financial History Review 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI B No
215 African Studies 1.3 88th Q1 SSCI – No
216 Asia Policy 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
217 Asian Journal of Sport History and Culture 1.3 88th Q1 – – No
218 Atlantic Studies : Global Currents 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
219 Canadian Ethnic Studies 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
220 Diplomatica 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
221 History of Education Review 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
222 International History Review 1.3 88th Q1 AHCI – No
223 Israel Studies 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
224 Journal of Conflict Archaeology 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
225 Journal of Early Christian Studies 1.3 88th Q1 AHCI – No
226 Journal of Islamic Studies 1.3 88th Q1 AHCI – No
227 Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional 1.3 88th Q1 SSCI – Yes
228 Social Science History 1.3 88th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
229 Sport in History 1.3 88th Q1 ESCI – No
230 Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 1.3 88th Q1 – – Yes
231 William and Mary Quarterly 1.3 88th Q1 AHCI – No
232 Youth and Globalization 1.3 88th Q1 – – No
233 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 1.3 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
234 Genealogy 1.3 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
235 History Education Research Journal 1.3 87th Q1 – – Yes
236 Library of Economic History 1.3 87th Q1 – – No
237 Rivista di Storia Economica 1.3 87th Q1 ESCI – No
238 Russian Politics 1.3 87th Q1 ESCI – No
239 Asia Maior 1.2 87th Q1 – – Yes
240 Asia-Pacific Economic History Review 1.2 87th Q1 SSCI – No
241 Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 1.2 87th Q1 – – No
242 Environment and History 1.2 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
243 Itinerario 1.2 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
244 Journal of African Archaeology 1.2 87th Q1 AHCI – No
245 Journal of American History 1.2 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
246 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 1.2 87th Q1 AHCI – No
247 Latino Studies 1.2 87th Q1 ESCI – No
248 Social History 1.2 87th Q1 AHCI – No
249 Sociological Bulletin 1.2 87th Q1 – – No
250 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1.2 87th Q1 – – No
251 Ukrainian Numismatic Annual 1.2 87th Q1 – – Yes
252 Women's History Review 1.2 87th Q1 AHCI – No
253 Dialogo Andino 1.2 86th Q1 – – No
254 Historia Agraria 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
255 Historical Archaeology 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI – No
256 International Journal of Middle East Studies 1.2 86th Q1 SSCI – No
257 International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI – No
258 Journal of African History 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
259 Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 1.2 86th Q1 – – No
260 Journal of Sindhi Studies 1.2 86th Q1 – – No
261 Journal of Social History 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
262 Letonica 1.2 86th Q1 – – No
263 Numen 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI – No
264 Parameters 1.2 86th Q1 – – No
265 Revista de Historia Industrial 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
266 Russia in Global Affairs 1.2 86th Q1 – – No
267 Slavery and Abolition 1.2 86th Q1 AHCI – No
268 Substantia 1.2 86th Q1 – – Yes
269 Islamic Africa 1.1 86th Q1 AHCI – No
270 Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 1.1 86th Q1 – – No
271 Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 1.1 86th Q1 ESCI – No
272 American Journal of Islam and Society 1.1 85th Q1 – – Yes
273 Annual of the British School at Athens 1.1 85th Q1 AHCI – No
274 Architecture and Urban Planning 1.1 85th Q1 – – No
275 Asia-Pacific Social Science Review 1.1 85th Q1 – – No
276 Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto 1.1 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
277 Estudios Atacamenos 1.1 85th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
278 Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on its Development 1.1 85th Q1 – – No
279 Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies 1.1 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
280 Journal of Burma Studies 1.1 85th Q1 – – No
281 Journal of Jesuit Studies 1.1 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
282 Journal of Silk 1.1 85th Q1 – – No
283 Modern and Contemporary France 1.1 85th Q1 AHCI – No
284 Persica Antiqua 1.1 85th Q1 – – No
285 Radical Americas 1.1 85th Q1 – – Yes
286 Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory 1.1 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
287 Social Evolution and History 1.1 85th Q1 ESCI – No
288 Social History of Medicine 1.1 85th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
289 Sociology Lens 1.1 85th Q1 SSCI – No
290 Zephyrus 1.1 85th Q1 AHCI – Yes
291 Asia-Pacific Review 1.1 84th Q1 ESCI – No
292 Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 1.1 84th Q1 – – No
293 Cold War History 1.1 84th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
294 English Historical Review 1.1 84th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
295 European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire 1.1 84th Q1 AHCI – No
296 History of Education Quarterly 1.1 84th Q1 ESCI – No
297 Israel Exploration Journal 1.1 84th Q1 AHCI – No
298 Journal of Advanced Military Studies 1.1 84th Q1 – – No
299 Journal of Asian Studies 1.1 84th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
300 Journal of Sistan and Baluchistan Studies 1.1 84th Q1 – – No

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