History and Technology is a world-leading international forum for research on technology in history. Technology – as knowledge, practice, and material resource – has been a key site for constituting the human experience. It has been central to the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local and transnational scale, in the pre-modern and modern eras. The journal publishes historical contributions on any aspect of technology in any period in history but encourages research that critically analyses the concept of technology while emphasizing its importance for a better understanding of history.
The journal is also engaged in a reflexive encounter with the ways in which history of technology is written, regarding choices of theory, scale, register, and whose voices may count as authoritative. History and Technology seeks to stimulate dialogue between history of technology and allied fields in history and the humanities, with the aim of exploring common issues in explanation, interpretation, and methodology. Truly international in scope, the journal places a high value on high-quality contributions from scholars who would not normally publish in the English language.
In addition to individual research articles, History and Technology features four types of analytic reflections. These are: • Special Issue: the journal intermittently publishes issues with three or more articles by different authors organized by a guest editor. Special issues expose groundbreaking opportunities in historiography. Special Issues should be discussed with the Editors for approval. • Forum: these contributions bring together several scholars, from different disciplinary vantage points, to assess an individual work of scholarship. The goal of a forum is to have a critical exchange, bringing together the author and diverse respondents to constructively examine common concerns in explanation or intellectual framing within history of technology and other scholarly fields. • Historiographic, Field, or Thematic Essay: Reviews or intellectual histories of literatures, disciplines, fields, themes, or guiding constructs in scholarship. These offer critical reflection on a broad sweep of intellectual activity and engage common concerns in explanation within history of technology and other scholarly fields. Contributions are encouraged from scholars in all disciplines. • Images, Technology, and History: Focuses on images as historical evidence. These papers analyze images relating to technology, with two aims: To integrate more fully our understanding of technology into broader historical accounts and to reflect on historical method.
(Please consult the editors for guidance on length and format for each of these special features).
Peer Review Policy All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous and rapid peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. The journal uses Editorial Manager to manage the peer-review process while submissions can be made online on Submission Portal.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Emeritus Editor Martin Collins - The Smithsonian Institution, USA
Abstracting and indexing
History and Technology is abstracted/indexed in: Baidu Scholar Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) British Library Inside Clarivate Analytics: Arts and Humanities Citation Index® Clarivate Analytics: Current Bibliography of the History of Science Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents® / Arts & Humanities CNKI Scholar CNPIEC CnpLINKer Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) DTU Findit E-lib Breman EBSCO - America: History and Life EBSCO - Historical Abstracts Electronic Journals Library (EZB) Finnish Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi) Genamics JournalSeek Google Scholar IBZ Online IBR Online International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) Iter JournalTOCs Microsoft Academic National Library of China Naver Academic NHN Norwegian Register of Scientific Journals and Publishers Portico ProQuest (British) Humanities Index ProQuest Periodicals Index Online Publons SciBase Scopus™ - click here for current CiteScore Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Web of Science Wellcome Library WorldCat Local (OCLC) Zetoc
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