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Mental Health in Historical Perspective is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2634-6036Verify ISSN ↗2634-6044Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1411 / 1936 | 27th | Q3 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 215 / 254 | 15th | Q4 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 559 / 580 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Health (social science) | 376 / 387 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2015–2023), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Mental Health in Historical Perspective is Q3 in History (rank 1411 of 1936), Q4 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 215 of 254) and Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 559 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Mental Health in Historical Perspective is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3, 27th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Mental Health in Historical Perspective is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2634-6036 and its online ISSN is 2634-6044.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mental Health in Historical Perspective has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,214 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Mental Health in Historical Perspective published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 68. 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.
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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