Best open-access journals for History

1. 1
   Anuario de estudios atlánticos

   0.1 cites/paper · Q1

   Open AccessScopusPubMed
2. 2
   Journal of Jesuit Studies

   0.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Brill

   Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
3. 3
   Belleten

   0.3 cites/paper · Q2

   Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMedTR-Dizin
4. 4
   História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos

   0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

   Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
5. 5
   Historia Contemporánea

   0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · University of the Basque Country

   Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
6. 6
   Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez

   0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Casa de Velázquez

   Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
7. 7
   Anuario de Estudios Medievales

   0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Spanish National Research Council

   Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
8. 8
   TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History

   0.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)

   Open AccessDOAJScopus
9. 9
   Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia

   0.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Universidad de Navarra

   Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
10. 10
    Arbor

    0.2 cites/paper · Q3 · Spanish National Research Council

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
11. 11
    Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej

    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
12. 12
    Hispania Sacra

    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · Spanish National Research Council

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
13. 13
    Manuscrito

    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · University of Campinas

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
14. 14
    Asclepio

    0.0 cites/paper · Q3 · Spanish National Research Council

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
15. 15
    Memoria y Civilización

    0.0 cites/paper · Q3 · University of Navarre

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
16. 16
    Archiwa Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne

    0.0 cites/paper · Q3 · John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
17. 17
    Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce

    0.1 cites/paper · Q4 · Q9379231

    Open AccessDOAJScopus
18. 18
    Revista Portuguesa de História

    0.1 cites/paper · Q4 · University of Coimbra

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
19. 19
    Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea

    0.0 cites/paper · Q4 · Servicio de Publicaciones

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
20. 20
    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
21. 21
    Nasza Przeszłość

    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile

    Open AccessDOAJPubMed
22. 22
    Índice Histórico Español

    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · University of Barcelona

    Open AccessDOAJ
23. 23
    Masuro-⁠Warmian Bulletin

    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile

    Open AccessDOAJ
24. 24
    Cahiers d’histoire Revue d’histoire critique

    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Association Paul Langevin

    Open AccessDOAJPubMed
25. 25
    Historia y Comunicación Social

    0.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Servicio de Publicaciones

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
26. 26
    Vox Patrum

    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
27. 27
    Anuario de Estudios Americanos

    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Spanish National Research Council

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
28. 28
    Hipogrifo Revista de literatura y cultural del Siglo de Oro

    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA)

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
29. 29
    BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review

    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
30. 30
    Acta Poloniae Historica

    0.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Polska Akademia Nauk

    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
31. 31
    Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

    Open AccessDOAJScopus
32. 32
    Archeologia Polski

    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

    Open AccessDOAJScopus
33. 33
    Isidorianum

    0.2 cites/paper · Q2

    Open AccessDOAJScopus
34. 34
    Revista de Indias

    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Spanish National Research Council

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
35. 35
    Muzealnictwo

    0.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Index Copernicus International S.A.

    Open AccessScopus
36. 36
    Archivo Español de Arte

    0.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Spanish National Research Council

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
37. 37
    Investigación Bibliotecológica Archivonomía Bibliotecología e Información

    0.5 cites/paper · Q3 · National Autonomous University of Mexico

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
38. 38
    History Studies

    0.3 cites/paper · Q3

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of ScienceTR-Dizin
39. 39
    Historisk tidsskrift

    0.1 cites/paper · Q3 · Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
40. 40
    Historische Zeitschrift

    0.0 cites/paper · Q3 · R. Oldenbourg Verlag

    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

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