Internet Histories

Aims & Scope

Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society is an international, inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal concerned with research on the cultural, social, political and technological histories of the internet and associated digital cultures.

The journal embraces empirical as well as theoretical and methodological studies within the field of the history of the internet broadly conceived — from early computer networks, Usenet and Bulletin Board Systems, to everyday Internet with the web through the emergence of new forms of internet with mobile phones and tablet computers, social media, and the internet of things.

The journal will also provide the premier outlet for cutting-edge research in the closely related area of histories of digital cultures.

A hallmark of the journal is its desire to publish and catalyse research and scholarly debate on the development, forms, and histories of the internet internationally, across the full global range of countries, regions, cultures, and communities.

The title of the journal, Internet Histories , suggests there is not one single and fixed Internet history going straight from Arpanet to the Internet as we know it today, from United States to a world-wide network.

Rather, there are multiple local, regional and national paths and a variety of ways that the internet has been imagined, designed, used, shaped, and regulated around the world.

Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society aims to publish a range of scholarship that examines the global and internetworked nature of the digital world as well as situated histories that account for diverse local contexts.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.00

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10941

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	108

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.531

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	14

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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 Computer Science, 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.

• Facebook’s evolution: development of a platform-as-infrastructure

  Citation: 136

  Authors: Anne, David B., Fernando N.

• The Internet Archive and the socio-technical construction of historical facts

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Anat, Adam

• Tracing Weibo (2009–2019): The commercial dissolution of public communication and changing politics

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Lianrui, Xiaofei

• From usernames to profiles: the development of pseudonymity in Internet communication

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Emily

• A history of crypto-discourse: encryption as a site of struggles to define internet freedom

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Z. Isadora

• Doing Web history with the Internet Archive: screencast documentaries

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Richard

• Searching for missing “net histories”

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Kevin, Camille

• What and where is the Internet? (Re)defining Internet histories

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Janet

• “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Jessica

• Innovation on the web: the end of the S-curve?

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Maria, T. J., Thanassis

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