Continuity and Change

Aims & Scope

Continuity and Change aims to define a field of historical sociology concerned with long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of past societies.

Emphasis is upon studies whose agenda or methodology combines elements from traditional fields such as history, sociology, law, demography, economics or anthropology, or ranges freely between them.

There is a strong commitment to comparative studies over a broad range of cultures and time spans.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1
2024	0.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.392

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	31

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13973

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	22

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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.

• Family, kinship and collectivity as systems of support in pre-industrial Europe: a consideration of the ‘nuclear-hardship’ hypothesis

  Citation: 140

  Authors: Peter

• What's so special about the Mediterranean? Thirty years of research on household and family in Italy

  Citation: 73

  Authors: PIER PAOLO

• Dangers to going it alone: social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines

  Citation: 60

  Authors: GREG

• The Justinianic plague: origins and effects

  Citation: 58

  Authors: PETER

• Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America

  Citation: 53

  Authors: STEVEN

• Married women's occupations in eighteenth-century London

  Citation: 45

  Authors: AMY LOUISE

• Back to the basics: mortality and fertility interactions during the demographic transition

  Citation: 39

  Authors: DAVID

• Nordic family patterns and the north-west European household system

  Citation: 39

  Authors: BEATRICE

• Leaving home and the process of household formation in pre-industrial England

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Richard

• Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and ‘coverture’ in England, 1660–1800

  Citation: 36

  Authors: JOANNE

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