Journal of American History

Journal of American History is published by Oxford 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 American History and Culture, American Constitutional Law and Politics and Race, History, and American Society, together about 54.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of American History is the leading scholarly publication and journal of record in the field of American history and is the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our country's heritage. Each volume of the quarterly journal contains interpretive essays on all aspects of American history, plus reviews of books, films, movies, television programs, museum exhibits and resource guides. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 0.7 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 1.6 History (Rank by Impact Factor) 70/553 2025 Cited Half-Life 22.3 years 2025 Immediacy Index 0.2 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.0009 2025 Article Influence Score 0.987 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 1.2 History (Rank by CiteScore) 239/1936 History And Philosophy Of Science (Rank by CiteScore) 79/254 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 1.408 Readership 2025 Full Text Usage 187,447 About metrics Abstracting & Indexing Services Journal of American History is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services: EBSCOhost Elsevier BV Family Index Gale H.W. Wilson Journal Citation Reports /Social Sciences Edition OCLC ProQuest Academic Search Bibliography of Native North Americans Current Abstracts Education Research Complete Gender Studies Database Historical Abstracts History Reference Center Humanities International Complete Humanities International Index MasterFILE Elite MasterFILE Premier Professional Development Collection Race Relations Abstracts RILM Abstracts of Music Literature SocINDEX TOC Premier World History Collection Scopus Academic ASAP Academic OneFile Book Review Index Online Plus Educator's Reference Complete Expanded Academic ASAP General OneFile General Reference Center InfoTrac Custom Religion and Philosophy Collection Student Resource Center College Book Review Digest Plus Humanities Abstracts/Index/Full Text Wilson OmniFile Humanities Abstracts/Index Periodical Abstracts Humanities Module ProQuest Central ProQuest Education Journals ProQuest Research Library ProQuest Research Library Core Resource/One Disclaimer Statements of fact and opinion in the articles in Journal of American History are those of the respective authors and contributors and not of the Journal, Organization of American Historians (OAH), or Oxford University Press, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Neither Oxford University Press, Organization of American Historians (OAH), nor the Journal make any representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 21, Australia 1 (22 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.74LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.41LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

247OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

9,922OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

19LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

187,447Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISSN

0021-8723

Electronic ISSN

1945-2314

Latest issue on the website

Volume 113, Issue 1 (June 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub