Intellectual History Review

Aims & Scope

Intellectual History Review , the journal of the International Society for Intellectual History, is a forum for the intellectual history community, promoting the work and aims of the ISIH as well as the study of intellectual history more generally.

As well as articles, IHR regularly publishes literature surveys, and essay reviews of current work in intellectual history and related historical areas.

The journal will construe ‘intellectual’ in the most inclusive and comprehensive sense, focusing primarily on intellectual history from the sixteenth century to the present.

It publishes papers addressing the history of philosophy, religion, science, anthropology, psychology and the social sciences and other relevant intellectual formations.

The Editors particularly encourage articles which emphasise the grounding of intellectual work in social, cultural and historical context, as well as historical reflection on the formation and development of intellectual history as a discipline.

IHR publishes studies which review the work and achievements of individual intellectual historians along with articles discussing methodological issues, historiographical reflections on the relationship between intellectual history and cognate or competing historical perspectives (e.g. cultural history, the history of ideas and the history of philosophy).

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.290

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16946

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	59

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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.

• The Rise of Note‐Taking in Early Modern Europe

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Ann

• Carl Linnaeus's botanical paper slips (1767–1773)

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Isabelle, Staffan

• A Portable World: The Notebooks of European Travellers (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Marie‐Noëlle

• The Origins of ‘Natural Kinds’: Keeping ‘Essentialism’ at Bay in the Age of Reform

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Gordon

• A Kind of Sagacity: Francis Bacon, the<i>Ars Memoriae</i>and the Pursuit of Natural Knowledge

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Rhodri

• Science and secularization

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Peter

• The critique of religion as political critique: MÄ«rzā Fatḥ Ê¿AlÄ« Ä€khÅ«ndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Rebecca

• The Work of Verbal Picturing for John Ray and Some of his Contemporaries

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Alexander

• Loose Notes and Capacious Memory: Robert Boyle’s Note‐Taking and its Rationale

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Richard

• Revisiting Enlightenment racial classification: time and the question of human diversity

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Devin

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