This acclaimed journal allows historians in a broad range of specialities to experiment with new ways of presenting and interpreting history. Rethinking History challenges the accepted ways of doing history and rethinks the traditional paradigms, providing a unique forum in which practitioners and theorists can debate and expand the boundaries of the discipline.
Rethinking History provides a balance of features not usually found in academic history journals. The mix often includes:
Articles of 5,000 or 7,000 words
Concepts - papers exploring key concepts or categories of historical analysis
Controversies - debates between historians
Essays of 8,000 to 10,000 words
Experimental pieces
Invitations to Historians - historians explain how and why they write history
Miniatures - pieces of 1,500 words or less, aimed to show brevity can be the soul of history
Re-reviews - reassessments of classic history texts
Reconsiderations - essays that "reconsider" the body of work produced by a single historian, an entire school or field
Reviews and review articles
Themed Issues
"I hope that this journal will become that missing venue where historians, young and old, can try out something new, can indulge in experiments... that bring us into new relationships with the traces of the past... We believe that the writing of History can be an art, and that innovation in any art calls for boldness, audacity, and the courage to try out things that can seem strange, even to the author..." Robert A. Rosenstone, Founding Editor, Rethinking History
"By Re-thinking History I mean expanding the study of the nature of history in all its forms and conceptualizations. Rethinking it must mean questioning the boundaries of how we study the past" Alun Munslow, UK Editor, Rethinking History
"My passion has been to re-think the writing of history, to demonstrate the inextricable links between content and form, between what we have to say and how we say it, between our arguments and interpretations and stories and our choice of structure, language, voice(s), imagery, point(s) of view, and more. I am eager to work with and publish writers at any stage in their careers who are thinking hard about the form of their writing. Perhaps they are learning from poets, novelists, and writers of general non-fiction as well as from fellow historians; or reviving and re-imagining some old and unappreciated form; or striking out in new directions in search of literary narrative, interpretation, or theory" James Goodman, US Editor, Rethinking History
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
105K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.5 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
0.9 (2023) 5 year IF
1.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.300 (2023) SNIP
0.289 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
30 days avg. from submission to first
decision
16 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
31% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
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.
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.
It is with profound regret that we must announce that the journal's Founding Editor, Alun Munslow, passed away suddenly on 1 October 2019.
This is tragic and terribly sad news. In due course, the Editors will bring forward proposals to mark Alun's passing in the pages of Rethinking History. The whole journal of course also stands as a lasting memorial to him.
Alun is survived by his wife, Jane.
Editors:
Kalle Pihlainen - University ofTurku, Finland
Patrick Finney - AberystwythUniversity, UK
Founding Editors:
Alun Munslow
Robert A. Rosenstone - California Institute of Technology, USA
Social Media Editor
Laura Guillaume
Editorial Board:
Frank Ankersmit -Groningen University, Netherlands Jaume Aurell - University of Navarra, Spain Marjorie Becker-University of Southern California, USA Douglas Booth -University of Otago, New Zealand Linda J. Borish -Western Michigan University, USA Robert Burgoyne -University of St. Andrews, UK Peter Burke -University of Cambridge, UK Jack R. Censer -George Mason University, USA Anna Clark- Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Sande Cohen -California Institute of the Arts, USA Dennis Dworkin -University of Nevada at Reno, USA Elizabeth D. Ermarth -Trent University, Canada James Goodman - Rutgers University, Newark, USA Jonathan Gorman -The Queens University, Belfast, N. Ireland Jerome de Groot -University of Manchester, UK David Harlan -California State University, San Luis Obispo (CalPoly), USA Montserrat Herrero -University of Navarra, Spain Martha Hodes -New York University, USA Jessica Hower -Southwestern University, USA Keith Jenkins -University of Chichester, UK Alison Landsberg –George Mason University, USA Allan Megill -University of Virginia, USA Sue Morgan -University of Chichester, UK Rila Mukherjee -Hyderabad University, India Claire Norton - St. Mary’s University, UK David D. Roberts -University of Georgia, USA Beverley Southgate -University of Hertfordshire, UK Gabrielle Spiegel -Johns Hopkins University, USA Barbara L. Tischler -Columbia University, USA Jonathan Walker -University of Kent, UK Guy Westwell- University of London, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Rethinking History is abstracted/indexed in:
America: History and Life; British Humanities Index; Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; Humanities Index; Humanities International Index; OCLC; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index.
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