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Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH.
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ISSN 0340-8728Verify ISSN ↗0341-0846Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1703 / 1936 | 12th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1292 / 1434 | 9th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1481 / 1530 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 276 / 283 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte is Q4 in History (rank 1703 of 1936), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1292 of 1434) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1481 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 12th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte is published by Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0340-8728 and its online ISSN is 0341-0846.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #346 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 17. 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 61 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (71.3%), Austria (9%) and United Kingdom (7.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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