Film History: An International Journal

Aims & Scope

Film History publishes original research on the international history of cinema, broadly and inclusively understood.

Our areas of interest are the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of films designed for commercial theaters as well as the full range of nontheatrical, noncommercial uses of motion pictures; the role of cinema as a contested cultural phenomenon; the technological, economic, political, and legal aspects of film history; the circulation of film within and across national borders; and the relations between film and other visual media and forms of commercial entertainment.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29351

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	7

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.103

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	17

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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.

• Wildlife documentaries: from classical forms to reality TV

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Jan-Christopher

• Myth and fact: The reception of<i>The Birth of a Nation</i>

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Arthur

• 3D in Depth: &lt;em&gt;Coraline, Hugo&lt;/em&gt;, and a Sustainable Aesthetic

  Citation: 24

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• Cinema's ?sanctuary?: From pre-documentary to documentary film in Albert Kahn's<i>Archives de la Plan�te</i>(1908-1931)

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Paula

• What a long, strange trip it's been - William Greaves?<i>Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One</i>

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Maria San

• The Amateur Cinema League and its films

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Alan D.

• The photoplay or the pickaxe: extras, gender, and labour in early Hollywood

  Citation: 20

  Authors:

• Making the ?Studio Girl?: The Hollywood Studio Club and industry regulation of female labour

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Heidi

• Grierson, the British Documentary Movement, and Colonial Cinema in British Colonial Africa

  Citation: 18

  Authors:

• Breaking the Fourth Wall: ?Belascoism?, Modernism, and a 3-D<i>Kiss Me Kate</i>

  Citation: 18

  Authors: William

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