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Business History

Taylor and Francis Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 1958

ISSN1743-7938

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.519

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.515

Total Worksi

5,444

Total Citationsi

35,402

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business; History Of Social Sciences; History; Business and International Management; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1958

Annual Volume~ 89 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications5,444

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1743-7938

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

108

816

2019

122

741

2020

494

2021

401

2022

247

2023

104

245

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

HistoryQ1

Business and International ManagementQ2

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

BusinessHistory Of Social Sciences

Scopus Categories

HistoryBusiness and International ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Historical Economic and Social StudiesCorporate Finance and GovernanceAustralian History and SocietyManagement and Organizational StudiesHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural AnalysisAmerican History and CultureItaly: Economic History and Contemporary IssuesFamily Business Performance and SuccessionWine Industry and TourismColonialism, slavery, and trade

Frequently asked questions about Business History

Is Business History a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Business History: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Business History?

Business History is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.07.

Is Business History indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Business History is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Business History?