Journal profile · HISTORY
International Journal of Maritime History
ISSN 0843-8714 · eISSN 2052-7756 · SAGE
International Journal of Maritime History: CAS Zone 4 · History (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,650; review about 9 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 70.3% (journal website); 118 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Maritime History is published by SAGE 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 Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories and Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis, together about 37.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are History and Philosophy of Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The International Journal of Maritime History (IJMH) is the journal of the International Maritime History Association. The IJMH is a fully-refereed, quarterly publication which addresses the maritime dimensions of economic, social, cultural, and environmental history. Truly international in scope, the IJMH publishes studies of a multidisciplinary nature on a broad range of maritime … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HISTORY
Editor-in-chief Catia AntunesPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named United Kingdom 6, Netherlands 6, United States 4, Canada 3, Greece 3 (36 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Colonialism, slavery, and tradeSocial Sciences15%
- Global Maritime and Colonial HistoriesSocial Sciences11.8%
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural AnalysisArts and Humanities10.9%
- Maritime and Coastal ArchaeologyArts and Humanities10%
- History of Science and MedicineArts and Humanities9.5%
- Historical Economic and Social StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9%
- Maritime Security and HistorySocial Sciences4.6%
- Diverse Historical and Scientific StudiesArts and Humanities4.1%
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 | History | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)History Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 4 |
| Minor | History | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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 (publisher) 2023
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2023
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.14LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- h-index
- 29OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 100OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.08OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 33.33%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 31LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,144 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 105 | 32 | 2 |
| 2025 | 118 | 25 | 9 |
| 2024 | 110 | 35 | 14 |
| 2023 | 95 | 32 | 44 |
| 2022 | 72 | 21 | 31 |
| 2021 | 60 | 14 | 51 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
9 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 70.3%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 9 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 27 daysPublisher website ·
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| 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)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
Article types accepted11, with length limits
- book reviewInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …Length not stated
- book reviewsBook Reviews.Length not stated
- editorialInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …main text ≤ 40,000 words
- forumsForums. A themed group of papers (usually three or four) with an editorial introduction, not normally exceeding 40,000 words in totalLength not stated
- full articleInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …main text ≤ 8,000 words
- original researchInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …Length not stated
- perspectiveInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …Length not stated
- research paperInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …Length not stated
- reviewInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …Length not stated
- review articleInternational Journal of Maritime History publishes original research and review articles on a broad range of maritime historical themes. The Journal considers …Length not stated
- roundtablesRoundtables. Invited panels of reviews of works of particular significance, with a response by the author.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
No submission or publication fees Model summary
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being 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
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 0843-8714
- Electronic ISSN
- 2052-7756
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Maritime History
What CAS zone is International Journal of Maritime History in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Maritime History is in Zone 4 of History, and in Zone 4 of the minor category History. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of History. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at International Journal of Maritime History?
The publisher reports about 9 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 70.3%. 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of International Journal of Maritime History?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Harvard. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of International Journal of Maritime History based?
Of the 36 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 3%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (6), Netherlands (6) and United States (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Journal of Maritime History?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Maritime History is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is International Journal of Maritime History open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Maritime History is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .