Journal profile
Human Remains and Violence
ISSN 2054-2240 · Manchester University Press · United Kingdom
Human Remains and Violence: fully open access; APC about USD 613; review about 28 weeks (community reports); 11 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Human Remains and Violence is published by Manchester University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning, Memory, violence, and history and Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration, together about 46.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed publication which draws together the different strands of academic research on the dead body and the production of human remains en masse, whether in the context of mass violence, genocidal occurrences or environmental disasters. Inherently interdisciplinary, the journal publishes papers from a range of academic disciplines within the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Human Remains and Violence invites contributions from scholars working in a variety of fields and interdisciplinary research is especially welcome.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Death, Funerary Practices, and MourningSocial Sciences16.6%
- Memory, violence, and historyPsychology16.3%
- Memory, Trauma, and CommemorationPsychology13.2%
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology StudiesArts and Humanities8.4%
- War, Law, and JusticeSocial Sciences5.1%
- Spanish Culture and IdentityArts and Humanities3.9%
- Spanish History and PoliticsArts and Humanities3.9%
- Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory StudiesArts and Humanities3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
Indexed in: no record yet.
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSDOAJPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- h-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 8OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.53OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 160 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 14 | 38 |
| 2025 | 11 | 11 | 46 |
| 2024 | 9 | 9 | 59 |
| 2023 | 12 | 12 | 61 |
| 2022 | 13 | 13 | 75 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 | 38 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 28 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | GBP 500 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 500 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 500 | — | — |
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 accepted1
- original research articlesThe journal welcomes original research articles on studies of any geographical region and historical periodLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- License & copyright
authors retain copyright Model summary
Authors retain the copyright of their article.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
From 2017, Human Remains and Violence has been a fully Open Access journal, funded by the University of Manchester and the research programme ‘Transfunéraire’, supported by a grant from the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
double-blind peer review Model summary
All articles will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
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
- Manchester University Press
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2054-2240
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Human Remains and Violence
How long does peer review take at Human Remains and Violence?
Authors report an average review time of about 28 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.
Which databases index Human Remains and Violence?
The journal's website lists ERIH PLUS and DOAJ; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Human Remains and Violence open access, and what is the APC?
Human Remains and Violence is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 613.
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: .