Global Intellectual History

Global Intellectual 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 American Constitutional Law and Politics, Chinese history and philosophy and Islamic Studies and History, together about 21.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

How can we define intellectual history? At present scholars who call themselves intellectual historians, or who express an interest in intellectual history, can be found working on a variety of topics, such as the history of identities, time and space, empire and race, sex and gender, natural and popular sciences, the body and its functions, the movements of peoples and the transmission of ideas, the history of publishing and the history of objects, art history and the history of the book, planetary, maritime, and oceanic histories, in addition to the subjects traditionally associated with intellectual history, such as political theory, political economy, and international relations. Intellectual history defies definition, and intellectual historians are at the forefront of the ongoing global, transnational, comparative, spatial, visual, and international turns in the historical profession. Its fluid identity and prominence have led to rich discussion on the practice of intellectual history in a global age and more particularly to the relationship between intellectual history and global history. David Armitage, for example, has argued that intellectual history is very well placed to deal with the most wide-ranging ideas over long spans of time and across cultures, rejecting the assumption that intellectual historians deal only with specific ideological episodes in narrow and precise contexts. At the same time, and as the edited volume Global Intellectual History (2013) by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori showed, intellectual historians can help in tracking the movement of ideas and their dissemination, and the transformation of ideas across borders and cultures. The Moyn-Sartori collection catalysed debate, with critics such as Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Ann Thomson, and J. G. A. Pocock, among others, underscoring the limits and possibilities of global approaches to the history of ideas. Reflecting on these historiographical disputes, Or Rosenboim has urged for the transformative potential of the global category, creatively conceived, in the critique it offers against not only the hierarchies of power that shaped – and continue to shape – our world, but the conceptual categories used to analyse it. One such critical heuristic is to rethink the notion of canonicity to engage with those traditionally excluded by such power hierarchies, as demonstrated, for instance, by the collective intervention offered by Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon (2022),

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History

Editor-in-chief Rosario LópezPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United Kingdom 11, Italy 4, France 3, Spain 3, Japan 2 (42 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 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

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.17Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

0.84LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.84Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

26OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

71OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.2OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

28.66%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

64LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

116,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

52%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

45 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

132 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

29 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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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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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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

2380-1883

Electronic ISSN

2380-1891

Latest issue on the website

Volume 11, Issue 6 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
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