About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal metrics
Usage
- 105K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 0.7 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.168 (2023) SNIP
- 0.143 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 35 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 158 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 9 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 18% 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
Editors:
Vandana Joshi, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India
Brodie Waddell, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Grace Huxford, University of Bristol, UK
Assistant Editor:
Adrian Ager, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Book Reviews Editor:
Kelly Boyd, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
Editorial Board:
Jennifer Altehenger, Merton College, University of Oxford, UK
Padma Anagol, Cardiff University, UK
John Arnold, King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
Kate Bradley, University of Kent, UK
David Hopkin, Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK
Max Jones, University of Manchester, UK
Karen Hunt, Keele University, UK
Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Anthony McElligott, University of Limerick, Ireland
Simon Middleton, William and Mary College, USA
Donald Spaeth, University of Glasgow, UK
Penny Summerfield, University of Manchester, UK
Pat Thane, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Chris Waters, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA
Mark Williams, Cardiff University, UK
Phil Withington, University of Sheffield, UK
Advisory Board:
Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK
Guy Beiner, Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel
Judith Bennett, University of Southern California, USA
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology, USA
Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Franz-Josef Brüeggemeier, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK
Craig Clunas, University of Oxford, UK
Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, USA
James W. Cook, University of Michigan, USA
Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, USA
Laura Lee Downs, European University Institute, Italy
Margot Finn, University College London, UK
Irene Guenther, University of Houston, USA
Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern California, USA
Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Shigemi Inaga, Kyoto Seika University, Japan
Eugene Irschick, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sarah Knott, University of Indiana, USA
Orvar Löfgren, Lund University, Sweden
Iain McCalman, University of Sydney, Australia
Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University, USA
Frank Mort, University of Manchester, UK
Herman Roodenburg, Meertens Instituut, Netherlands
Judith Rowbotham, University of Plymouth, UK
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Stephen Smith, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK
Megan Vaughan, University College London, UK
Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Andy Wood, Durham University, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Indexed/abstracted in:
De Gruyter Saur: IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes; Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes; EBSCOhost; America: History and Life; Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; Left Index; Political Science Complete; SocINDEX; TOC Premier; Scopus; Gale; Academic OneFile; Book Review Index; InfoTrac Custom; InfoTrac Student Edition; Psychology Collection; OCLC; ArticleFirst; CSA Sociological Abstracts; Electronic Collections Online; ProQuest:British Humanities Index; CSA Social Services Abstracts; CSA Sociological Abstracts; Professional ProQuest Central; ProQuest 5000 International; ProQuest Central; ProQuest Research Library; Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Web of Science.Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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