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The American Historical Review
Psychology and social sciences
Among the 50 psychology and social sciences journals in this index it has the 14th highest h-index and the 49th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 2 376 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 65% |
| United Kingdom | 10% |
| Canada | 4% |
| Germany | 2% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 99% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Race, History, and American Society | 6% |
| Colonialism, slavery, and trade | 5% |
| Indigenous Cultures and History | 4% |
| Soviet and Russian History | 2% |
| Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies | 2% |
| African history and culture studies | 2% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- From Absence to Abundance: (2024, 25 citations)
- Agnotology in Palestine/Israel (2023, 18 citations)
- The Agency Dilemma (2023, 16 citations)
- Prolegomena to Any Future Indigenous History of the Ancient World (2023, 14 citations)
- Seeing Black America in Iran (2023, 12 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0002-8762):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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