History of Humanities

Aims & Scope

History of Humanities, along with the newly formed Society for the History of the Humanities, takes as its subject the history of a wide variety of disciplines including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, philology, and media studies, tracing these fields from their earliest developments, through their formalization into university disciplines, and to the modern day.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.102

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	8

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29646

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	11

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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 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.

• A New Field:<i>History of Humanities</i>

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Rens, Julia, Jaap, Thijs

• The Comparative Method and the History of the Modern Humanities

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Devin

• The Vernacular Revolution: Reclaiming Early Modern Grammatical Traditions in the Ottoman Empire

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Michiel

• The Virtues and Vices of Albert Naudé: Toward a History of Scholarly Personae

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Herman

• Shifting Demarcations: An Introduction

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Fabian

• Monuments and Documents: Panofsky on the Object of Study in the Humanities

  Citation: 14

  Authors: John

• Whose Larynx Is It? Fields of Scholarly Competence around 1900

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Viktoria

• How to Deal with Scholarly Forgetting in the History of the Humanities: Starting Points for Discussion

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Han, Toon, Sebastiaan G.

• How Speech Lost Its Voice: The Informational Turn in US Free Speech Law

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Jennifer

• Epistemic Values in the Humanities and in the Sciences

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Rik

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