History of the Present

Aims & Scope

History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor.

Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in making categories of contemporary debate appear inevitable, natural, or culturally necessary; and to publish work that calls into question certainties about the relationship between past and present that are taken for granted by the majority of practicing historians.

At a time when a journal committed to history as a form of critique is more necessary than ever, History of the Present encourages critical examination of both history’s influence on politics and the politics of history as a discipline.

Instead of writing about "history" from the abstract philosophical or historiographical perspectives that predominate today, History of the Present offers a rigorous, theoretically informed alternative based mainly on evidence from archives, texts, and other sources.

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Metrics & Ranking

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23899

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.158

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	5

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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.

• Accounting for “The Most Excruciating Torment”: Gender, Slavery, and Trans-Atlantic Passages

  Citation: 107

  Authors: Jennifer L.

• Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Sara R.

• Innocence and Experience: Melodramatic Narratives of Sex Trafficking and Their Consequences for Law and Policy

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Carole S.

• The Age of Fallout

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Joseph

• Neoliberalized Knowledge

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Wendy

• The Politics of the Archive and History’s Accountability to the Enslaved

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Stephanie E.

• “The Way We Read Now”

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Elizabeth

• Introduction: From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures?

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Brian, Marisa

• Homosexuality, Race, and the Rhetoric of Nationalism

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Stefan P.

• The Dead Book Revisited

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Saidiya

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