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Slavery and Abolition

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 1980

ISSN1743-9523

SJR Q1✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (AHCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.38

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,943

Total Citationsi

19,722

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.21

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1980

Frequency3x/year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,943

Publisher OrgFrank Cass & Co.

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer-reviewed

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1743-9523

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

peer-reviewed

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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?

Portico, CLOCKSS

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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

402

2019

307

2020

277

2021

142

2022

2023

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

Sociology and Political ScienceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

History

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceHistory

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Colonialism, slavery, and tradeRace, History, and American SocietyCaribbean history, culture, and politicsGlobal Maritime and Colonial HistoriesAfrican history and culture studiesAmerican Constitutional Law and PoliticsCuban History and SocietyHistorical Economic and Social StudiesAmerican History and CultureHistorical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

Frequently asked questions about Slavery and Abolition

Is Slavery and Abolition a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Slavery and Abolition: 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 Slavery and Abolition?

Slavery and Abolition 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 0.21.

Is Slavery and Abolition indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Slavery and Abolition is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.