Aboriginal History Journal

Aims & Scope

Aboriginal History is an annual journal that contains interdisciplinary historical studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ interactions with non-Indigenous peoples.

It promotes publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.

The journal has been in publication since 1977.

The journal is co-published by Aboriginal History Inc., a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.127

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26588

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The view from Marege’: Australian knowledge of Makassar and the impact of the trepang industry across two centuries

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Campbell

• The space of conflict: Aboriginal/European interactions and frontier violence on the western Central Murray, South Australia, 1830–41

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Heather, Amy, Mick, Vanessa

• Mobilising across colour lines: Intimate encounters between Aboriginal women and African American and other allied servicemen on the World War II Australian home front

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Karen

• Deep nation: Australia’s acquisition of an indigenous past

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Denis

• Aboriginal service in the First World War: Identity, recognition and the problem of mateship

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Philippa

• Imperial literacy and indigenous rights: Tracing transoceanic circuits of a modern discourse

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Tracey

• What we were told: Responses to 65,000 years of Aboriginal history

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Billy, Lynette

• The Convincing Ground Aboriginal massacre at Portland Bay, Victoria: fact or fiction?

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ian D

• Red coat, blue jacket, black skin: Aboriginal men and clothing in early New South Wales

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Grace

• Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Henrietta

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