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Historical Encounters

HERMES History Education Research Network · Australia · Est. 2014

ISSN2203-7543eISSN2203-7543

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS ESCI+10

✓ Scopus Q1+25

✓ DOAJ Verified+15

Total50

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

0.314

H-Index

CiteScore

View ↗

Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

1.102

Total Works

116

Total Citations

364

2yr Mean Citedness

1.23

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Aims & Scope

Historical Encounters is a double-blind peer-reviewed, diamond open access, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of historical consciousness, historical cultures, and history education. Submissions from across the fields of public history, history didactics, history education, curriculum & pedagogy studies, cultural studies, intangible cultural heritage, narrative theory, and historical theory fields are all welcome. The journal editors are particularly interested in presenting a variety of voices from scholars at various career stages, and therefore encourages early career researchers to submit their work for review.

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

weeks to review

Slow · median is 15 wks

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionAustralia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2014

Annual Volume~ 18 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications116

Publisher OrgUniversity of Newcastle

OA Since2013

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Submission Info

APC Cost💎 Diamond OA — Free

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

Review Time~24 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/12 · 75%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

HERMES History Education Research Network

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2203-7543 / 2203-7543

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

No APC (Free)

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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?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

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Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

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

HistoryQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

History

Scopus Categories