About this journal
Aims and scope
Included in Thomson Reuters Arts and Humanities Citation Index®
Founded in 1977, History of Photography is an international quarterly journal devoted to the history, practice and theory of photography in all its definitions - artistic, scientific, commercial, and domestic; in archives, art galleries, and museums; on the page, on the wall, or on the screen. The journal is inclusive and interdisciplinary, welcoming all scholarly approaches, whether historical, art historical, anthropological, sociological, archival or theoretical. It embraces global photographic history, ranging across all geographical and cultural contexts around the world.
The journal aims to provide a significant resource to diverse communities, including academics, curators, photographers, collectors, independent scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students - indeed, anyone with an interest in the history and practice of photography. The journal encourages submissions from emerging scholars, while also seeking to publish work by established writers. We are proud of our reputation for rigorous and constructive reviewing. Over the past decades History of Photography has become an indispensable source of documentary texts, new and original scholarly articles, novel interpretations, and original thinking in this field.
History of Photography is a peer reviewed journal overseen by the Editor and supported by a board of scholars in international standing.
Readership:
Photographers, curators, collectors, art historians, social historians, historians of science, sociologists, anthropologists and librarians.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 64K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.000 (2023) SNIP
- 0.101 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 196 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 10% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Patrizia Di Bello
Department of History of Art
School of Arts
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square,
London WC1H 0PDAssistant Editor
Laurie Taylor
Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Former Editors
Heinz K. Henisch (1977–1990)
Mike Weaver & Anne Hammond (1991–2000)
Graham Smith (2001-2013)
Luke Gartlan (2013-2018)
Reviews Editor
Sean Willcock
Lecturer in History of Art
Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford,
Ewert House
Oxford, OX2 7SG
Email: [email protected]
Contributing Editors
Natalie Adamson, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, Belgium
Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Jordan Bear, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan, USA
Laurie Dahlberg, Bard College, New York, USA
Elizabeth Edwards, Professor Emerita, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Ahmet Ersoy, Bogaziçi University, Turkey
Luke Gartlan, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robin Kelsey, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Nina Lager Vestberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Martha Langford, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia
Melissa Miles, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Jeremy Taylor, University of Nottingham, UK
Ian Walker, writer and photographer, London, UK
Matthew S. Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Roberta Wue, University of California, Irvine, USA
Andrés Mario Zervigon, Rutgers University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
History of Photography is currently abstracted and indexed in:
America: History and Life; Art Index; ARTbibliographies Current Titles; ARTbibliographies Modern; Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals; BHA Bibliography of the History of Art; British Humanities Index; Communication and Mass Media Complete; Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; Humanities International Index; OCLC; Periodicals Index Online; SCOPUS; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Open access
History of Photography is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
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- Special subscription rate of US$171/£107/€136 for members of AAH and CAA. Contact +44 (0)20 7017 5543 or [email protected] to subscribe.
Society information
Members of the Association of Art Historians can receive an individual print subscription to History of Photography at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details. Contact +44 (0)20 8052 0501 or [email protected] to subscribe.
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