Global Intellectual History

Aims & Scope

Intellectual history as a subject has thrived because it gives people the skills to understand an alien persona, the product of cultures and beliefs that are likely to have been altogether at odds with their own.

Intellectual historians can learn to appreciate the different values held by societies whose modes of living may clash with our own, and realise that the rationales of such values are explicable.

Above all, intellectual history teaches prudence, a sense of the alternative futures articulated by historical actors, the transmission mechanisms they developed to realise those futures, and the limits upon their capacity to improve and sometimes to protect their worlds.

Given the lack of disciplinary or geographical boundaries to the subject of intellectual history as traditionally practised, it is right to create a journal that encourages exactly these virtues on a global scale.

This journal encourages submissions that cross disciplinary boundaries, that are comparative and transnational, that are concerned with long-term ideological movements and significant turning points in the history of ideas, with the relationship between nations and cultures and continents, and from ancient to modern times.

All research articles published in Global Intellectual History have undergone rigorous peer-review, involving initial editor screening and anonymized review by at least two referees.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.240

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	8

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	19006

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	67

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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.

• On the unglobality of contexts: Cambridge methods and the history of political thought

  Citation: 26

  Authors: J. G. A.

• Networks of knowledge, or spaces of circulation? The birth of British cartography in colonial south Asia in the late eighteenth century

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Kapil

• A Minority of One

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Faisal

• Beyond the usual suspects: on intellectual networks in the early modern world

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Sanjay

• Adam Smith and the conspiracy of the merchants

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Paul

• John Stuart Mill and Fourierism: ‘association’, ‘friendly rivalry’ and distributive justice

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Helen

• Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Dag

• Rethinking histories of atheism, unbelief, and nonreligion: An interdisciplinary perspective

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Nathan

• Marxist<i>Guru</i>, Socialist<i>Neta</i>, Buddhist<i>Acharya</i>, Gandhi’s<i>Shishya</i>: the many Narendra Deva(s) (1889–1956)

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Rakesh

• Global possibilities in intellectual history: a note on practice

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Knud, Richard

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