Family & Community History

Family & Community History is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Historical Economic and Social Studies, Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes and Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices, together about 48.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Family & Community History brings together historical and geographical approaches to communities and families in the past, setting them in an awareness of the importance of place. Places provide the raw material for testing wider generalizations about the past and the journal explores the ways in which studies of local places can extend academic and theoretical contexts. In pursuit of this aim we believe a range of methodological approaches can be applied to the study of past communities, including micro-studies, oral history and qualitative research as well as quantitative studies. We define family and community history in a broad sense. Family can include studies of family and household structures, personal and family life cycles, family roles, kin relationships and migration. Community history can encompass social networks and structures, paid and unpaid work and religious, occupational, political or other voluntary-based communities. The focus is on the history of the UK and Ireland from the 18th to 20th centuries, although the journal will publish articles on other areas and places where they make a clear comparative or methodological contribution. The journal is peer-reviewed and combines scholarly methods and presentation with an emphasis on accessibility and an openness to independent as well as institutionally-based researchers. Family & Community History is the journal of the Family and Community Historical Research Society which aims to promote and communicate research in family and community history within a scholarly framework and to encourage links between institutionally-based and independent researchers.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): HISTORY

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 14, Ireland 1 (15 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERIH PLUSPublisher website

Other: Academic Search Alumni, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Premier, Advanced Placement Source, America: History and Life, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, British Humanities Index, CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Current Abstracts, Genamics JournalSeek, Historical Abstracts, History Reference Center, Humanities International Complete, International Bibliography of the Social Science, Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, Royal Historical Society Bibliography, Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, SocINDEX, Sociological Abstracts, TOC Premier

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.12Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.11Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

19OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

65OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.07OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

30%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

10LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

28,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1463-1180

Electronic ISSN

1751-3812

Society / sponsor

Family and Community Historical Research Society

Latest issue on the website

Volume 29, Issue 1-2 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website