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Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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ISSN 0031-4587Verify ISSN ↗2169-8546Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1354 / 1936 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2025 (also 1989, 1984, 1979–1982, 1973, 1970, 1968, 1951), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is Q3 in History (rank 1354 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is published by Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Its print ISSN is 0031-4587 and its online ISSN is 2169-8546.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 85. 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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