Journal profile
Journal of WorldHistorical Information
ISSN 2169-0812 · University Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States
Journal of WorldHistorical Information: fully open access; no APC; review about 15 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2016 (Volume 3, Issue 1): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of WorldHistorical Information is published by University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Digital Humanities and Scholarship, Historical Economic and Social Studies and Research Data Management Practices, together about 42.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of World-Historical Information (JWHI, http://jwhi.pitt.edu) is a peer-reviewed, semi-annual, electronic journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary project of creating and maintaining a comprehensive world-historical data resource. The journal operates under the guidance of the Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (CHIA, http://chia.pitt.edu), the collaborative network which is creating the data resource. The data resource addresses several centuries in time with data aggregated up to the global level. The journal focuses on the particular problems of historical data—their heterogeneity, the high cost of collecting, digitizing, and documenting such data and, on the other hand, the high value of historical data for temporal analysis of the past and projection into the future. The Journal publishes five principal types of articles: editorial essays, articles on published or immediately forthcoming datasets, methodological essays, analytical articles articles, and reviews of published datasets. While other journal address separately the issues of information science, techniques of geographic and temporal analysis, and methods in historical studies, JWHI is distinct in focusing attention on the interplay of these aspects of creating, curating, and analyzing world-historical data. JWHI gives particular attention not only to the collection and housing of existing data but to the transformation of data to generate comprehensive and comparable data for the world and its subunits over the past several centuries. The articles on datasets may include discussion of the creation of the dataset, the nature of historical documents included, and historical methods and analysis applicable to the dataset, and the implications of the dataset for information science. Articles on methods may include the architecture of historical archives or methods for data collection, cleaning, integration, documentation, analysis, and visualization. Methodological articles are to be general statements rather than focusing on a single dataset. Articles on analysisReviews of datasets provide
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Patrick ManningPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Digital Humanities and ScholarshipArts and Humanities21.4%
- Historical Economic and Social StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance14.3%
- Research Data Management PracticesComputer Science7.1%
- Digital and Traditional Archives ManagementArts and Humanities5.7%
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk ManagementSocial Sciences4.3%
- Colonialism, slavery, and tradeSocial Sciences4.3%
- History of Colonial BrazilSocial Sciences4.3%
- Philosophy, History, and HistoriographyArts and Humanities4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
Indexed in: no record yet.
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 38 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
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 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, abides by the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: “By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or l…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
The journal follows a single-blind review policy. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed; all accepted papers will be made available in external indexing services.
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
- University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2169-0812
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2016)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of WorldHistorical Information
How long does peer review take at Journal of WorldHistorical Information?
Authors report an average review time of about 15 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.
Is Journal of WorldHistorical Information open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of WorldHistorical Information is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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: .