Journal profile · HISTORY
Journal of Pacific History
ISSN 0022-3344 · eISSN 1469-9605 · Taylor & Francis
Journal of Pacific History: CAS Zone 3 · History (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.6 (journal website); JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 101 days (first decision after review, publisher); acceptance rate 61% (journal website); 64 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Pacific History is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of History in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Island Studies and Pacific Affairs, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies and Asian American and Pacific Histories, together about 55.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Pacific History is a leading refereed journal dedicated to historical research concerning the Pacific Islands, their peoples, and their pasts. Its core geographical focus includes all of New Guinea and adjacent islands. Its chronological remit is broad: from prehistory to the present. It publishes articles in social, cultural, religious, political, economic, geographical, and environmental history and the history of science; analysis of contemporary developments; critical surveys; and comments. It also publishes primary documents, notes on source materials, reviews and review essays on books, exhibitions, and other media. Contributions are welcome that address wider Oceania or significant comparative or theoretical inquiry grounded empirically in Oceania. Primarily technical reports are discouraged. Please feel free to get in touch with our editorial team at editorial@jphinc.com.au . The Journal of Pacific History accepts the following types of submission:
· Research Articles including articles submitted for Pacific Currents
· Narratives and Documents
· Special Issues
· Reviews Pacific Currents publishes papers that deal with contemporary developments, but from a historical perspective. It suits submissions that, among other things, identify and explore new Pacific regional trends, or investigate important elections, significant constitutional developments or political crises in specific Island countries or territories. We encourage comparative papers, and/or papers that deal with the interactions of Island countries with countries outside the region. We prefer papers that place specific events in wider, enduring frameworks, i.e. those that will offer readers in 10 or 20 years’ time a solid historical account of contemporary developments. We do not normally accept papers with a largely speculative orientation or advocacy pieces. By ‘contemporary’, we mean the period since independence. Our view of the Pacific region is broad. Narratives and Documents is concerned with the primary sources of Pacific History: Pacific archives and manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual records, and material culture. The ‘From the archives’ series describes a body of archival material or other archival endeavour or achievement. The ‘Manuscript’ series introduces and reproduces a primary source, particularly a vernacular source with translation. The section also features articles that usually share information about a particular event, episode, or body of primary
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HISTORY
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Australia 2, United States 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Island Studies and Pacific AffairsSocial Sciences27.3%
- Pacific and Southeast Asian StudiesSocial Sciences19.2%
- Asian American and Pacific HistoriesSocial Sciences8.8%
- Australian History and SocietySocial Sciences6.9%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.9%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science2.8%
- Climate Change, Adaptation, MigrationSocial Sciences2.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)History Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 3 |
| Minor | History | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)History Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 2 |
| Minor | History | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)History Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 4 |
| Minor | History | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ProQuest, OCLC, Abstracts in Anthropology, America: History and Life, Anthropological Index Online, Current Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, Humanities Index, Humanities International Index, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ProQuest Central, Religion Index One: Periodicals, Sociological AbstractsPublisher 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) 2025
- 0.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.24LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.24Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.42LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.42Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 43OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 389OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 16.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 11.11%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 39LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 76,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,156 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33 | 13 | 0 |
| 2025 | 64 | 23 | 23 |
| 2024 | 40 | 16 | 35 |
| 2023 | 38 | 15 | 43 |
| 2022 | 60 | 6 | 126 |
| 2021 | 47 | 6 | 112 |
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 Crossref · 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".
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 61%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 99 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 101 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 136 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
Article types accepted4
- narratives and documentsNarratives and DocumentsLength not stated
- research articlesResearch Articles including articles submitted for Pacific CurrentsLength not stated
- reviewsReviewsLength not stated
- special issuesSpecial IssuesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
The Journal of Pacific History is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Model summary
The Journal of Pacific History is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabil…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous double-anonymized peer review. Model summary
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous double-anonymized peer review.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0022-3344
- Electronic ISSN
- 1469-9605
- Society / sponsor
- Journal of Pacific History Inc
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 61, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Pacific History
What CAS zone is Journal of Pacific History in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Pacific History is in Zone 3 of History, and in Zone 4 of the minor category History. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of History. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Pacific History?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.6 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.7, h-index 43.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Pacific History?
The publisher reports about 101 days (first decision after review); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 61%. 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 JCR quartile is Journal of Pacific History in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of History.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Pacific History based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Australia (2) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Pacific History?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Pacific History is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Pacific History open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Pacific History is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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: .