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Past and Present is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0031-2746Verify ISSN ↗1477-464XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,402 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 28 / 1936 | 98th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 93 / 1434 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1952–2002), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Past and Present is Q1 in History (rank 28 of 1936) and Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 93 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Past and Present is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.788, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,402 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Past and Present is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0031-2746 and its online ISSN is 1477-464X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Past and Present has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #150 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Past and Present published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 74. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (44.8%), United States (27.1%) and Canada (4.3%).
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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