Cold War History publishes the very best research and emerging scholarship on all aspects of the global Cold War and its legacies. The journal’s editorial board is open to manuscripts written from any historical approach based on empirical historical research. Articles must draw on primary sources such as those from official archives, non-state archives, private collections, cultural outputs, or oral histories. The journal encourages all histories of the Cold War including cultural, diplomatic, political, social and transnational histories. It is particularly interested in research that attempts to de-centre the era and pays special attention to the role of Europe and the Global South.
Submissions which use sources and secondary literature in multiple languages are especially welcome, as are those written by scholars whose first language is not English. To that end, Cold War History is seeking to increase the representation of scholars for whom English is not their first language and offers enhanced editing services for promising submissions from such scholars.
In addition to research articles, Cold War History also publishes book reviews and other short form pieces: archival guides and reflections on documents and methods, under ‘ Research Notes’; and roundtables and essays on the state of the field, under ‘ Conversations on Cold War History’.
Cold War History is based in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. For further information, please contact the Managing Editors at [email protected]. Please note however that all submissions should be made online at the Cold War History Scholar One Manuscripts site. All research articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
90K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
0.8 (2023) 5 year IF
1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.143 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
177 days avg. from submission to first
decision
92 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
44% acceptance rate
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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.
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.
Roham AlvandiLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK James Ellison -Queen Mary, University of London, UK Jussi M. HanhimäkiGraduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland Tanya Harmer -London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Elizabeth InglesonLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK Matthew Jones -London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Sara Lorenzini- University of Trento, Italy N. Piers LudlowLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK Lori Maguire -University of Reims, France Olav NjølstadThe Norwegian Nobel Institute, Norway Leopoldo Nuti -Roma Tre University, Italy Sue Onslow -School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK Christian F. OstermannCold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, USA Svetozar RajakLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK Candace Clare SobersCarleton University, Canada Odd Arne WestadElihu Professor of History, Yale University, USA Qingfei YinLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK Vladislav Zubok -London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Book Reviews Editors:
Lindsay Aqui - University of Westminster, UK James Nealy - Harvard University, USA Molly Pucci -Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Managing Editors:
Jan Kozdra - London School of Economics, UK Harriet Solomon - London School of Economics, UK
Advisory Board:
Csaba Békés - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Alexander Chubarian - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Richard Crockatt - University of East Anglia, UK Anne Deighton - University of Oxford, UK Jonathan Fenby - Trusted Sources, UK Lawrence Freedman - King’s College, London (co-chair), UK Jonathan Haslam - University of Cambridge, UK Evanthis Hatzivassiliou-University of Athens, Greece James G. Hershberg - George Washington University, USA Wilfried Loth - University of Essen, Germany Vojtech Mastny - Woodrow Wilson Institute, Washington DC, USA Timothy Naftali - University of Virginia, USA Niu Jun - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, PRC China Andrzej Paczkowski - Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Georges-Henri Soutou - Sorbonne, France Maurice Vaïsse - Centre for Studies of Defense History, Paris, France Antonio Varsori - University of Florence, Italy Natalia Yegorova - Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Former Members:
John Lewis Gaddis Seppo Hentilä David Holloway John Kent Mikhail Narinsky Ronald Pruessen David Reynolds Eirini Karamouzi Jayita Sarkar
Updated 21-03-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Cold War History is abstracted in
America: History and Life; C S A Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts); Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; Lancaster Index to Defence & International Security Literature; OCLC; Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index.®.
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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
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