Global Food History

Aims & Scope

Global Food History is the preeminent peer-reviewed journal for authors who wish to write about food and drink using history as their primary disciplinary perspective—though we also welcome work from scholars in other disciplines or who use interdisciplinary methods to consider the relationship between food history and food studies.

The editors welcome the following submissions: Research Articles: These should be essays of 8,000 to 10,000 words, which use primary source research to make new arguments, engage with scholarship in the field, and which deal with time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), and complexity.

Pedagogical Articles: These essays reflect on teaching practices and strategies related to interdisciplinary food courses, such as assignments, syllabi, and class experiences in kitchen laboratories.

These are generally about 4,000 to 6,000 words.

Review Articles: These essays are typically historiographical in nature or else think pieces on trends within subfields of food history.

The word count may vary from a long book review to a full-length research article, but the length should reflect the scope of the topic.

Archival Articles: These essays should provide context for and analyze specific recipes, primary sources, or archival collections.

For publishing primary sources, the editors prefer that the source should be historically significant, previously unpublished, and ideally of pedagogical value.

The journal has a strong preference for translations into English.

Such documents must include an introduction putting the source into context as well as critical apparatus in the footnotes.

Total word count should not exceed that for other types of submissions.

The translator/editor must obtain all necessary reprint rights prior to consideration.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.207

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	5

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20738

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	36

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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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 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.

• Culinary Infrastructure: How Facilities and Technologies Create Value and Meaning around Food

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Jeffrey M.

• A “Queer-Looking Compound”: Race, Abjection, and the Politics of Hawaiian Poi

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Hiʻilei Julia

• The Political Economy of Food Import and Self-reliance in China: 1949-2019

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Shaohua

• The Delectable and Dangerous: Durian and the Odors of Empire in Southeast Asia

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Daniel

• What Is “Chinese” Food? Historicizing the Concept of Culinary Regionalism

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Michelle T.

• “Classifying” Margarine: The Early Class-Based Marketing of a Butter Substitute in Sweden (1923-1933)

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Lauren Alex

• “Food Comes First”: The Development of Colonial Nutritional Policy in Ghana, 1900–1950

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Jonathan E.

• Nutritional Epidemiology of Chronic Disease and Defining “Healthy Diet”

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Adele H.

• Food Safety as Culinary Infrastructure in Singapore, 1920–1990

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Nicole

• Developing Constipation: Dietary Fiber, Western Disease, and Industrial Carbohydrates

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Sebastián, Sarah E.

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