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Best History journals

1,935 Scopus-active journals are ranked in History. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Oeconomia Copernicana 18.9 99th Q1 SSCI – Yes
2 Political Geography 9.1 99th Q1 SSCI – No
3 Journal of Heritage Tourism 8.1 99th Q1 ESCI B No
4 Social Studies of Science 6.9 99th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
5 Contemporary Social Science 6.5 99th Q1 ESCI – No
6 Economy and Society 6.3 99th Q1 SSCI A No
7 Population Studies 6.3 99th Q1 SSCI A No
8 Social Forces 6.2 99th Q1 SSCI A No
9 Journal of Genocide Research 5.6 99th Q1 ESCI – No
10 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5.1 99th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
11 Men and Masculinities 4.9 99th Q1 SSCI – No
12 International Journal of Heritage Studies 4.7 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
13 Central Asian Survey 4.6 99th Q1 SSCI – No
14 Memory, Mind and Media 4.5 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
15 Nazhruna: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam 4.5 99th Q1 – – Yes
16 Journal of Economic History 4.3 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI A* No
17 Public Opinion Quarterly 4.2 99th Q1 SSCI A No
18 Global Constitutionalism 4.1 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 4.1 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
20 Archaeological Prospection 4 98th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
21 World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures 4 98th Q1 – – No
22 Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 3.9 98th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
23 Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies 3.9 98th Q1 – – No
24 Ethnopolitics 3.8 98th Q1 ESCI – No
25 Journal of Global History 3.8 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
26 Nationalities Papers 3.8 98th Q1 SSCI – No
27 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 3.8 98th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
28 American Antiquity 3.7 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
29 Historic Environment: Policy and Practice 3.7 98th Q1 AHCI – No
30 Past and Present 3.7 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
31 Economic History Review 3.6 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI A* No
32 Archival Science 3.6 98th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3.6 98th Q1 AHCI – No
34 Journal of Management History 3.5 98th Q1 ESCI B No
35 Ulumuna 3.4 98th Q1 – – Yes
36 Historical Methods 3.3 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
37 Internet Histories 3.3 98th Q1 ESCI – No
38 Theory and Society 3.3 98th Q1 SSCI – No
39 Journal of Human Rights Practice 3.2 98th Q1 ESCI – No
40 Archaeometry 3.2 97th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
41 British Politics 3.2 97th Q1 SSCI – No
42 Insight on Africa 3.2 97th Q1 ESCI – No
43 Cliometrica 3.1 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI C No
44 Asian Studies Review 3.1 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
45 FWU Journal of Social Sciences 3.1 97th Q1 ESCI – No
46 Tel Aviv 3.1 97th Q1 AHCI – No
47 Business History 3 97th Q1 SSCI A* No
48 Built Heritage 3 97th Q1 – – Yes
49 Critical Military Studies 3 97th Q1 ESCI – No
50 Contemporary Southeast Asia 2.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
51 Defence Studies 2.9 97th Q1 – – No
52 Historical Life Course Studies 2.9 97th Q1 – – Yes
53 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 2.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
54 Turkish Studies 2.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
55 Civil Wars 2.8 97th Q1 ESCI – No
56 Historical Social Research 2.8 97th Q1 SSCI – No
57 Journal of Eurasian Studies 2.8 97th Q1 – – Yes
58 Middle East Critique 2.8 97th Q1 SSCI – No
59 Capital and Class 2.8 96th Q1 ESCI B No
60 Canadian Slavonic Papers 2.8 96th Q1 ESCI – No
61 Russian Journal of Economics 2.7 96th Q1 – C Yes
62 Canadian Journal of African Studies 2.7 96th Q1 ESCI – No
63 Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis 2.7 96th Q1 – – Yes
64 Political Theory 2.7 96th Q1 SSCI – No
65 Europe-Asia Studies 2.6 96th Q1 SSCI B No
66 Explorations in Economic History 2.6 96th Q1 SSCI A No
67 International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2.6 96th Q1 AHCI – No
68 Knowledge Cultures 2.6 96th Q1 – – No
69 New Perspectives on Turkey 2.6 96th Q1 SSCI – No
70 Philosophy of Science 2.6 96th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
71 European Review of Economic History 2.5 96th Q1 SSCI A No
72 Management and Organizational History 2.5 96th Q1 SSCI C No
73 International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences 2.5 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
74 Journal of Applied History 2.5 96th Q1 – – No
75 Religion 2.5 96th Q1 AHCI – No
76 Journal of Intercultural Studies 2.4 96th Q1 ESCI – No
77 New Research of Tuva 2.4 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
78 Journal of South Asian Development 2.4 95th Q1 SSCI C No
79 American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research 2.4 95th Q1 SSCI – No
80 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2.4 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
81 Postcolonial Studies 2.4 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
82 AlterNative 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – No
83 American Museum Novitates 2.3 95th Q1 SCIE – No
84 Aries 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – No
85 Baltic Region 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
86 Historical Encounters 2.3 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
87 Journal of Education Culture and Society 2.3 95th Q1 – – Yes
88 Levant 2.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
89 Palestine Exploration Quarterly 2.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
90 Narrative Inquiry 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
91 Acta Borealia 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI – No
92 Bulletin of ASOR 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI – No
93 East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2.2 95th Q1 – – Yes
94 eTropic 2.2 95th Q1 – – Yes
95 History and Theory 2.2 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
96 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 2.2 95th Q1 SSCI – No
97 Modern China 2.2 95th Q1 SSCI – No
98 History of the Family 2.2 94th Q1 SSCI – No
99 Business History Review 2.1 94th Q1 SSCI A No
100 Scandinavian Economic History Review 2.1 94th Q1 ESCI C No

Rank and percentile are within the History Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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