The American Historical Review: impact and ranking
The American Historical Review has a 2-year mean citedness of 0.06 in OpenAlex, which ranks #16,757 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 384. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.06 #16,757 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 384 #242 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #198 of 18,122
- Works
- 133k 11.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The American Historical Review?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for The American Historical Review: 0.06, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The American Historical Review #16,757 of 18,122 journals, in the top 92%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The American Historical Review?
OpenAlex gives The American Historical Review an h-index of 384: 384 of its papers have each been cited at least 384 times. That ranks #242 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The American Historical Review publish?
OpenAlex records 132,942 works in The American Historical Review from 1895 to 2025, cited 1,539,780 times in all, 11.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #198 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The American Historical Review
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-8762
- In OpenAlex
- 1895 to 2025
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The American Historical Review as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,620.
- OpenAlex record
- S197437610
Journals ranked near The American Historical Review
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The American Historical Review on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12,318 | Journal of Physics Conference Series | 0.51 | 134 |
| 12,931 | The Journal of Urology | 0.41 | 373 |
| 13,031 | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | 0.39 | 361 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.