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Zeitgeschichte is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG.
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ISSN 0256-5250Verify ISSN ↗2569-5304Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 584 / 1936 | 69th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 618 / 1434 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 1999–2001, 1978–1982, 1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Zeitgeschichte is Q2 in History (rank 584 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 618 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Zeitgeschichte 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Zeitgeschichte is published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG. Its print ISSN is 0256-5250 and its online ISSN is 2569-5304.
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.
Zeitgeschichte has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Zeitgeschichte published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 54. 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 22 research articles (2023), authors are most often from Austria (77.3%), Germany (13.6%) and Poland (4.5%). 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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