International Review of Social History

International Review of Social History is published by Cambridge University Press 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 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Historical Economic and Social Studies, together about 30.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published for Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis. The International Review of Social History (IRSH) is one of the leading journals in the field of social history, more in particular the history of work, workers, and labour relations, defined in the broadest possible sense, including workers’ struggles, organizations, and associated social, cultural, and political movements, both in the modern and the early modern periods, and across periods. IRSH is an online-only journal that aims to be truly global in scope and stresses the need for a comparative perspective that acknowledges the interrelationship of historical change and the phenomena and factors underlying that change. We welcome submissions from all over the world that deal with the social history of work, workers, and labour relations, explored on a local, regional, national, or transnational level, but always with an eye to how they contribute to a better understanding of what constitutes global labour history.Areas covered include the life and work of slaves, wage labourers, artisans, peasants, and the self-employed; related issues of class, gender, age, and race and ethnicity; social, cultural, and political movements, including the intellectual ideas that played a part in those movements; citizenship; theoretical and methodological issues; and the environment and ecology in relation to the social.Submissions that fall within this range of themes and topics in the field of social history of work and workers are welcomed, particularly those providing a comparative, transnational, or transcontinental perspective.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 14, Netherlands 11, Germany 7, United Kingdom 5, France 5 (58 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

443OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.3OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

86.05%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

27LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISSN

0020-8590

Electronic ISSN

1469-512X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website