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Central European History
ISSN 0008-9389 · eISSN 1569-1616 · Cambridge University Press
Central European History: CAS Zone 3 · History (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.33; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,550; 78 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Central European History is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 3 of History in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are European history and politics, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies and European Political History Analysis, together about 39.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and History. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Published since 1968, Central European History is the primary venue for scholarly exchange and debate of central Europe’s diverse and complex history. The journal publishes on a range of topics, bringing research articles, book and film reviews and review essays, discussion fora, and other forms of scholarly writing to a broad audience of specialists and non-specialists in four issues per year. Spanning the medieval to the modern period, CEH offers a space for creative approaches to understanding the region’s past, while continually reassessing its conceptual and geographic boundaries and their representations. CEH publishes work related to German-speaking and German-identified peoples, as well as work on non-German-speakers in the historic states and regions of central Europe, including the Habsburg lands, Austria, and Switzerland. The journal welcomes submissions that expand and de-territorialize the region’s historic frames of reference, taking identity, language, and space—and the complex links and ruptures among them—seriously. CEH perennially engages anew the old question, “what and where is central Europe?"Central European History is an open access journal in which all research content is published Gold Open Access.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 17, United Kingdom 3, Canada 2, Germany 1, Australia 1 (24 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- European history and politicsSocial Sciences24.6%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.2%
- European Political History AnalysisArts and Humanities6.3%
- German History and SocietyArts and Humanities6.1%
- Italian Fascism and Post-war SocietySocial Sciences6%
- Diverse Specialized Academic ResearchEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.4%
- Reformation and Early Modern ChristianityArts and Humanities4.2%
- Historical Geopolitical and Social DynamicsSocial Sciences3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)History Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 3 |
| Minor | History | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)History Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 4 |
| Minor | History | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
SSCIAHCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0.33LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 89Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.15LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 301OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.11OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 63.93%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,587 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 86 | 18 | 0 |
| 2025 | 78 | 26 | 10 |
| 2024 | 138 | 21 | 24 |
| 2023 | 157 | 34 | 24 |
| 2022 | 148 | 27 | 36 |
| 2021 | 165 | 15 | 44 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,550 / GBP 2,460 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISSN
- 0008-9389
- Electronic ISSN
- 1569-1616
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Central European History
What CAS zone is Central European History in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Central European History is in Zone 3 of History, and in Zone 3 of the minor category History. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of History. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Central European History?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.33; CiteScore 0.9, h-index 42.
Where are the editorial board members of Central European History based?
Of the 24 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (17), United Kingdom (3) and Canada (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Central European History?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Central European History is indexed in SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Is Central European History open access, and what is the APC?
Central European History is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,550.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .