Central European History

Aims & Scope

Published since 1968, Central European History is the primary venue for scholarly exchange and debate of central Europe’s diverse and complex history.

The journal publishes on a range of topics, bringing research articles, book and film reviews and review essays, discussion fora, and other forms of scholarly writing to a broad audience of specialists and non-specialists in four issues per year.

Spanning the medieval to the modern period, CEH offers a space for creative approaches to understanding the region’s past, while continually reassessing its conceptual and geographic boundaries and their representations.

CEH publishes work related to German-speaking and German-identified peoples, as well as work on non-German-speakers in the historic states and regions of central Europe, including the Habsburg lands, Austria, and Switzerland.

The journal welcomes submissions that expand and de-territorialize the region’s historic frames of reference, taking identity, language, and space—and the complex links and ruptures among them—seriously.

CEH perennially engages anew the old question, “what and where is central Europe?"

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27836

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	22

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.115

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	25

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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, 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.

• Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About “Modernity”

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Edward Ross

• Nationalist Politics and the Dynamics of State and Civil Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Gary B.

• Hannah Arendt's Ghosts: Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Robert, Stephan

• National Mythologies and Ethnic Cleansing: The Expulsion of Czechoslovak Germans in 1945

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Eagle

• Academic Politics in the History of Science: Experimental Psychology in Germany, 1879–1941

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Mitchell G.

• Either-Or: The Narrative of “Crisis” in Weimar Germany and in Historiography

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Rüdiger

• Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933–1945

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Maiken

• Beyond the Nation: The Relational Basis of a Comparative History of Germany and Europe

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Philipp

• Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice

  Citation: 29

  Authors: John

• The Myths of Reparations

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Sally

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