Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-History
International Review of Environmental History
ISSN 2205-3204 · eISSN 2205-3212 · ANU Press · Australia
International Review of Environmental History: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 26 weeks (community reports); 8 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Review of Environmental History is published by ANU Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are American Environmental and Regional History, Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies and History of Science and Natural History, together about 45.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental history, but especially encourages articles with perspectives focused on or developed from the southern hemisphere and the ‘Global South’. This includes but is not limited to Australasia, East and South East Asia, Africa and South America. International Review of Environmental History’s editorial board includes historians, scientists and geographers, as well as scholars from other backgrounds, who work on environmental history and related disciplines, such as ecology, garden history and landscape studies. The methodological breadth of International Review of Environmental History distinguishes it from other environmental history journals, as does its attempt to draw together cognate research areas in garden history and landscape studies. The journal’s goal is to be read across disciplines, not just within history. We encourage scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations and timescales. We embrace interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational methods, while still recognising the importance of locality in understanding these global processes. International Review of Environmental History is happy to consider future special issues focusing on themes drawn from conferences or collaborations.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History
Editor-in-chief James BeattiePublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- American Environmental and Regional HistoryEnvironmental Science22.2%
- Diverse Historical and Scientific StudiesArts and Humanities12.2%
- History of Science and Natural HistoryArts and Humanities11.1%
- Historical and Environmental StudiesSocial Sciences10%
- Australian History and SocietySocial Sciences6.8%
- Ecocriticism and Environmental LiteratureArts and Humanities4.7%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences2.9%
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementEnvironmental Science2.5%
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.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | Q1 | 341/1936 | 82nd |
| General Environmental Science | Q4 | 203/249 | 18th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ProQuest, InformIT, NLA National edeposit (accessed through Trove), ANU Open Research digital repository, EBSCOPublisher 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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.14LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.36LetPub ·
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 11OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.72OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 162 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 6 | 71 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 | 63 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 47 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10 | 47 |
| 2022 | 23 | 23 | 43 |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 | 67 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 26 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 26 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-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Publication ethics Publication ethics
Follows COPE guidelines. Model summary
International Review of Environmental History (IREH) follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and its Best Practice Guidelines. Authors, editors and reviewers should familiarise themselves with these guidelines.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and licensing
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 from Volume 4(1) onwards; authors retain copyright. Model summary
All issues published from Volume 4(1) onwards are published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Issues published previous to this are under a standard copyright licence. Authors retain copyright of articles published in this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review process
Double-blind peer review for all articles. Model summary
All articles submitted to this journal undergo a double-blind peer-review process. The peer-review process is arranged by the Journal Editor, who then decides upon publication, amendment or rejection. Manuscripts that undergo amendment may be subject to further review by the Journal Editor or an external reviewer.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
Plagiarism screening with anti-plagiarism software. Model summary
International Review of Environmental History (IREH) will not accept plagiarised articles. Plagiarism is ‘the process or practice of using another person's ideas or work and pretending that it is your own’ (Cambridge Dictionary). Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to: Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledgement of sources. Directly copying text fr…
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
- ANU Press
- Country or region
- Australia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2205-3204
- Electronic ISSN
- 2205-3212
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Review of Environmental History
How long does peer review take at International Review of Environmental History?
Authors report an average review time of about 26 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 International Review of Environmental History?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Review of Environmental History is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is International Review of Environmental History open access, and what is the APC?
International Review of Environmental 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, DOAJ, 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: .