Journal profile · HISTORY
History and Technology
ISSN 0734-1512 · eISSN 1477-2620 · Taylor & Francis
History and Technology: CAS Zone 2 · History (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 494 days to acceptance (29 articles, last 24 months); 16 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
History and Technology is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of History in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis, Twentieth Century Scientific Developments and Human auditory perception and evaluation, together about 29.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are History and Philosophy of Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aims and scopeJournal metrics Editorial board History and Technology is a world-leading international forum for research on technology in history. Technology – as knowledge, practice, and material resource – has been a key site for constituting the human experience. It has been central to the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local and transnational scale, in the pre-modern and modern eras. The journal publishes historical contributions on any aspect of technology in any period in history but encourages research that critically analyses the concept of technology while emphasizing its importance for a better understanding of history. The journal is also engaged in a reflexive encounter with the ways in which history of technology is written, regarding choices of theory, scale, register, and whose voices may count as authoritative. History and Technology seeks to stimulate dialogue between history of technology and allied fields in history and the humanities, with the aim of exploring common issues in explanation, interpretation, and methodology. Truly international in scope, the journal places a high value on high-quality contributions from scholars who would not normally publish in the English language. In addition to individual research articles, History and Technology features four types of analytic reflections. These are: • Special Issue: the journal intermittently publishes issues with three or more articles by different authors organized by a guest editor. Special issues expose groundbreaking opportunities in historiography. Special Issues should be discussed with the Editors for approval. • Forum: these contributions bring together several scholars, from different disciplinary vantage points, to assess an individual work of scholarship. The goal of a forum is to have a critical exchange, bringing together the author and diverse respondents to constructively examine common concerns in explanation or intellectual framing within history of technology and other scholarly fields. • Historiographic, Field, or Thematic Essay: Reviews or intellectual histories of literatures, disciplines, fields, themes, or guiding constructs in scholarship. These offer critical reflection on a broad sweep of intellectual activity and engage common concerns in explanation within history of technology and other scholarly fields. Contributions are encouraged from scholars in all disciplines. • Images, Technology, and History: Focuses on images as histor
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HISTORY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural AnalysisArts and Humanities11.5%
- Twentieth Century Scientific DevelopmentsArts and Humanities11.1%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering7.1%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science6.2%
- History of Computing TechnologiesComputer Science5.9%
- History of Science and MedicineArts and Humanities5.7%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.1%
- History of Science and Natural HistoryArts and Humanities4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)History Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 2 |
| Minor | History | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)History Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 1 |
| Minor | History | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)History Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 1 |
| Minor | History | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.31LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.13LetPub ·
- h-index
- 39OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 235OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.63OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 24.07%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 20LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 946 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 16 | 7 | 2 |
| 2024 | 24 | 12 | 31 |
| 2023 | 19 | 8 | 72 |
| 2022 | 17 | 6 | 57 |
| 2021 | 25 | 11 | 163 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
494 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 358 days – 547 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 36 days (29 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 529 days
- Sample
- 29 articles with submission and acceptance dates (36 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted4
- editorialEditorial | Published online: 31 May 2026Length not stated
- essayEssay | Published online: 26 Jul 2026Length not stated
- obituaryObituary | Published online: 31 May 2026Length not stated
- research articleResearch Article | Published online: 28 Aug 2026Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Open access, Peer review
- Publication ethics
Adheres to publishing ethics; Taylor & Francis is a member of COPE and uses CrossCheck. Model summary
The Journal adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics, with rigorous processes in place to ensure this is achieved. Taylor & Francis is a member of Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE) and utilises CrossCheck for all Journals.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Overview Open journals Open Select Dove Medical Press F1000Research
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymized peer review; initial appraisal by Editor-in-Chief followed by review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Model summary
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous and rapid peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0734-1512
- Electronic ISSN
- 1477-2620
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 42, Issue 1-2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about History and Technology
What CAS zone is History and Technology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, History and Technology is in Zone 2 of History, and in Zone 2 of the minor category History. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of History. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at History and Technology?
Based on the dates recorded on 29 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 494 days (interquartile range 358–547 days). 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.
Which databases index History and Technology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, History and Technology is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is History and Technology open access, and what is the APC?
History and Technology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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: .