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Best open-access journals for History

The top 40 of 71 History journals, open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by whether OpenAlex and Scimago agree on the subject and how central History is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), leaving out journals both place in another discipline, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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  1. 1
    Revista de Arqueologia
    0.3 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  2. 2
    Anuario de estudios atlánticos
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessScopusPubMed
  3. 3
    Journal of Jesuit Studies
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Brill
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  4. 4
    Meander : miesięcznik poświęcony kulturze świata starożytnego
    0.0 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  5. 5
    Hispania-revista Espanola De Historia
    0.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Belleten
    0.5 cites/paper · Q2
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMedTR-Dizin
  7. 7
    Historia Contemporánea
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · University of the Basque Country
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Anuario de Estudios Medievales
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Spanish National Research Council
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Casa de Velázquez
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
    0.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  11. 11
    Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia
    0.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Universidad de Navarra
    Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
  12. 12
    História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Arbor
    0.2 cites/paper · Q3 · Spanish National Research Council
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  15. 15
    Memoria y Civilización
    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · University of Navarre
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  16. 16
    Hispania Sacra
    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · Spanish National Research Council
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Archiwa Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne
    0.0 cites/paper · Q3 · John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  18. 18
    Asclepio
    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · Spanish National Research Council
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Manuscrito
    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · University of Campinas
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  20. 20
    Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce
    0.2 cites/paper · Q4 · Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  21. 21
    Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea
    0.1 cites/paper · Q4 · Servicio de Publicaciones
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    Revista Portuguesa de História
    0.0 cites/paper · Q4 · University of Coimbra
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  23. 23
    e-Spania
    0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Civilisations et Littératures d’Espagne et d’Amérique du Moyen Âge aux Lumières (CLEA) - Paris Sorbonne
    Open AccessDOAJWeb of Science
  24. 24
    Zwingliana
    0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Theological Publishing House in Zurich
    Open AccessPubMed
  25. 25
    Cahiers de civilisation espagnole contemporaine
    0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines
    Open AccessDOAJWeb of Science
  26. 26
    Príncipe de Viana
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Institución Príncipe de Viana
    Open AccessPubMed
  27. 27
    Índice Histórico Español
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · University of Barcelona
    Open AccessDOAJ
  28. 28
    Nasza Przeszłość
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open AccessDOAJPubMed
  29. 29
    Helmántica
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open AccessPubMed
  30. 30
    Masuro-⁠Warmian Bulletin
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open AccessDOAJ
  31. 31
    Cahiers d’histoire Revue d’histoire critique
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Association Paul Langevin
    Open AccessDOAJPubMed
  32. 32
    Studia Źródłoznawcze/Commentationes
    0.3 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open AccessDOAJ
  33. 33
    Historia y Comunicación Social
    0.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Servicio de Publicaciones
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  34. 34
    Hipogrifo Revista de literatura y cultural del Siglo de Oro
    0.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA)
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  35. 35
    Vox Patrum
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  36. 36
    Anuario de Estudios Americanos
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Spanish National Research Council
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Ius Canonicum
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Universidad de Navarra, Servicio de Publicaciones
    Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
  39. 39
    Estudios Eclesiásticos Revista de investigación e información teológica y canónica
    0.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Comillas Pontifical University
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  40. 40
    Acta Poloniae Historica
    0.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Polska Akademia Nauk
    Open AccessScopusWeb 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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Frequently asked

Revista de Arqueologia, Anuario de estudios atlánticos, Journal of Jesuit Studies, Meander : miesięcznik poświęcony kulturze świata starożytnego, Hispania-revista Espanola De Historia lead this list, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. The top 40 of 71 ranked venues are listed on this page; 12 are Scimago Q1, 8 Q2, 7 Q3, 3 Q4 and 10 have no Scimago quartile. Journals are placed by two independent classifications, OpenAlex's and Scimago's, plus any documented corrections. A journal both place under History ranks ahead, within its Scimago quartile, of one only OpenAlex places there — because Scimago does not cover it, files it as Multidisciplinary, or files it under a neighbouring subject or only under a broad “(miscellaneous)” category (which counts as agreement when History is the journal's main OpenAlex subfield). By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, journals both sources place under History come first, then venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is History come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to History — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under History — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (3 of the 71 journals ranked here are below that floor; 1 of them is among the 40 shown). Only open-access venues are included. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded. For a match to your specific paper use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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