Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-History
International Public History
ISSN 2567-1111 · Walter de Gruyter
International Public History: CAS Zone 4 · History (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.4 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; 28 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Public History is published by Walter de Gruyter 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 Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy, Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis and Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration, together about 35.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
About this journal The current volume of International Public History is open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’s Subscribe to Open program.International Public History is a major international stimulus to the field of public history, which ha s been growing all over the world, both as an academic discipline and as a self-identity for its practitioners. The peer-reviewed online publication IPH is a timely development, providing a much-needed publishing venue for anyone engaged in public history. Submissions to International Public History are assessed in double-blind peer review with at least two independent reviewers. Manuscripts may be checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity CheckAbout the societyThe Internati onal Federation for Public History was founded in 2010 to create a network of public history programs, scholars, and practitioners for facilitating the international exchange of information on teaching and research in and the practice of public history. The Federation’s aim is to share recommended professional and academic best practices, including standards for evaluating public history scholarship. Fostering participation of public historians and their organiza tions in international congresses and other meetings of scholars in the field is one of its core issues.IFPH’s main purpose is to build an international public history community to encourage, promote, and coordinate contacts, teaching, and research in public history.Learn more about the International Federation for Public History here: http://ifph.hypotheses.org/ Your Benefits Official organ of the International Federation for Public History First international journal dedicated to the topic of public history Multimodal e-only journal, enabling content enhancement with photo, video and audio material Free Online Access: All articles published in Issue 1-1 (2018) of International Public History are freely available to all readers.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History
Editor-in-chief Andreas EtgesPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Educator Training and Historical PedagogySocial Sciences13.5%
- Oral History, Memory, Narrative AnalysisArts and Humanities11.1%
- Memory, Trauma, and CommemorationPsychology10.6%
- Vietnamese History and Culture StudiesSocial Sciences7.3%
- Museums and Cultural HeritageArts and Humanities5.3%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities4.4%
- Politics and Society in Latin AmericaSocial Sciences3.4%
- Comics and Graphic NarrativesArts and Humanities3.4%
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 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ProQuest, Baidu, OCLCPublisher 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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 0.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.18LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.01LetPub ·
- h-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.37OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 60%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 20LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 1Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 166 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 3 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6 | 16 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6 | 32 |
| 2022 | 22 | 8 | 36 |
| 2021 | 18 | 7 | 36 |
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
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 40 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | EUR 0 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- ISSN
- 2567-1111
- Society / sponsor
- International Federation for Public History
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Public History
What CAS zone is International Public History in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Public 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.
What is the impact factor of International Public History?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.4; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.6, h-index 9.
Which databases index International Public History?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Public History is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is International Public History open access, and what is the APC?
International Public History is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .