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Highest-impact journals for History

The top History journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an17,538-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the free Journal Finder.

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  1. 1
    The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
    1.0 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
    ScopusPubMed
  2. 2
    Past & Present
    0.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Medical History
    0.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Cambridge University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Rethinking History
    0.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    The Historical Journal
    0.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Cambridge University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Medieval Archaeology
    0.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    History and Theory
    0.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    History Compass
    0.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Modern & Contemporary France
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    English Literary Renaissance
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Chicago Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Social History of Medicine
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Journal of British Studies
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Cambridge University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Urban History
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Cambridge University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Anuario de estudios atlánticos
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessScopusPubMed
  15. 15
    Journal of Jesuit Studies
    0.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Brill
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  16. 16
    Renaissance Quarterly
    0.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Cambridge University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Vernacular Architecture
    0.5 cites/paper · Q2 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of Science
  18. 18
    Folk Life
    0.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of Science
  19. 19
    Belleten
    0.3 cites/paper · Q2
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMedTR-Dizin
  20. 20
    Journal of Medical Biography
    0.3 cites/paper · Q2 · SAGE Publishing
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Contemporary French Civilization
    0.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Liverpool University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    Cultural and Social History
    0.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Routledge
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
    0.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Oxford University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    French Cultural Studies
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · SAGE Publishing
    ScopusWeb of Science
  25. 25
    Visual Anthropology Review
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    Journal of Early Modern History
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Brill
    ScopusWeb of Science
  28. 28
    History
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    The Seventeenth Century
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Historia Contemporánea
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · University of the Basque Country
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Journal of Family History
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · SAGE Publishing
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Historical Research
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Oxford University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Scandinavian Studies
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · University of Illinois Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    Bulletin of the history of medicine
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Johns Hopkins University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    The Art Bulletin
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · College Art Association
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Casa de Velázquez
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    The English Historical Review
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Oxford University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Anuario de Estudios Medievales
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Spanish National Research Council
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Parliaments Estates and Representation
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusPubMed
  40. 40
    Northern History
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

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