Journal profile · Multiple
Current History
ISSN 0011-3530 · eISSN 1944-785X · University of California Press
Current History: CAS Zone 4 · History (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.29; subscription journal; 65 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Current History is published by University of California Press and is in Zone 4 of History in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are American Constitutional Law and Politics, American History and Culture and Vietnamese History and Culture Studies, together about 23.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Current History is a leading journal of global affairs that documents, contextualizes, debates, and bears witness to the tectonic, history-making social, political, and economic shifts that shape our world, Current History provides a space for fresh, courageous, intellectually rigorous, and provocative thinking. ISSN: 0011-3530 eISSN: 1944-785X Published Nine Times Per Year (six times per year beginning January 2027) Impact Factor: 3.5 CiteScore: 1.7 Editor: Lindsay Shingler, University of California, San Diego
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- American Constitutional Law and PoliticsSocial Sciences8.2%
- American History and CultureBusiness, Management and Accounting7.6%
- Vietnamese History and Culture StudiesSocial Sciences7.6%
- European history and politicsSocial Sciences5.3%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5.3%
- Race, History, and American SocietySocial Sciences5.2%
- Historical Geopolitical and Social DynamicsSocial Sciences5%
- European Political History AnalysisArts and Humanities4.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)History Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 4 |
| Minor | International Relations | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)History Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 2 |
| Minor | International Relations | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 4 |
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 | International Relations | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 3.29LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- h-index
- 47OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 425OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.86OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 2.13%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 12LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 18,945 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 72 | 19 | 5 |
| 2025 | 65 | 11 | 80 |
| 2024 | 67 | 16 | 91 |
| 2023 | 66 | 17 | 231 |
| 2022 | 64 | 15 | 265 |
| 2021 | 66 | 20 | 500 |
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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
- University of California Press
- ISSN
- 0011-3530
- Electronic ISSN
- 1944-785X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 125, Issue 874 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Current History
What CAS zone is Current History in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Current History is in Zone 4 of History, and in Zone 4 of the minor category International Relations / Political Science. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of History. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Current History?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.29; CiteScore 1.7, h-index 47.
Which databases index Current History?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Current History is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Current History open access, and what is the APC?
Current History is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
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: .