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Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0042-5702Verify ISSN ↗2196-7121Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 900 / 1936 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1998–1999, 1986, 1984, 1981, 1976–1977, 1972, 1967), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte is Q2 in History (rank 900 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025.
Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0042-5702 and its online ISSN is 2196-7121.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #835 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 66. 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 51 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (81.4%), Austria (5.9%) and Italy (2%). 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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