Journal profile · Multiple
Culture & History Digital Journal
ISSN 2253-797X · Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · Spain
Culture & History Digital Journal: CAS Zone 3 · History (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.36; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 48 weeks (community reports); 31 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Culture & History Digital Journal is published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 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 Spanish History and Politics, Colonialism, slavery, and trade and Historical Influence and Diplomacy, together about 20.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are History. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Culture & History Digital Journal welcomes original, unpublished manuscripts aimed to contribute to the methodological debate among historians and other scholars specialized in the fields of Human and Social Sciences, at an international level. With an interdisciplinary and transversal approach, this Journal poses a renovation of the studies on the past, relating them and dialoguing with the present, breaking the traditional forms of thinking based on chronology, diachronic analysis, and the classical facts and forms of thinking based exclusively on textual and documental analysis. By doing so, this Journal aims to promote not only new subjects of History, but also new forms of addressing its knowledge.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Consuelo Naranjo OrovioPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Spanish History and PoliticsArts and Humanities7.2%
- Colonialism, slavery, and tradeSocial Sciences6.9%
- Historical Influence and DiplomacySocial Sciences6.3%
- Media, Journalism, and Communication HistoryArts and Humanities6.3%
- Historical Studies on SpainArts and Humanities6%
- History of Education in SpainArts and Humanities6%
- Hispanic-African Historical RelationsArts and Humanities5.2%
- Spanish Culture and IdentityArts and Humanities4.6%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 3 |
| Minor | History | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)History Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 4 |
| Minor | History | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIAHCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 0.36LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.15LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- h-index
- 16OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 25OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.29OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 95.59%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 355 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2025 | 31 | 31 | 14 |
| 2024 | 23 | 23 | 5 |
| 2023 | 27 | 27 | 22 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 36 |
| 2021 | 23 | 23 | 28 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 48 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 48 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Keywords
- 6–8
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 13,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
© CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International basic information legal text
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISSN
- 2253-797X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 15, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Culture & History Digital Journal
What CAS zone is Culture & History Digital Journal in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Culture & History Digital Journal is in Zone 3 of History, and in Zone 3 of the minor category History. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of History. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Culture & History Digital Journal?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.36; CiteScore 0.5, h-index 16.
How long does peer review take at Culture & History Digital Journal?
Authors report an average review time of about 48 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Culture & History Digital Journal?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Keywords: 6–8; Manuscript length: ≤ 13,000 words; Reference style: Harvard; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Culture & History Digital Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Culture & History Digital Journal is indexed in SSCI, AHCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Culture & History Digital Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Culture & History Digital Journal is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .