Journal of Historical Political Economy

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) publishes cutting edge work in political economy (or how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system interact and influence each other) from an historical perspective.

The journal serves a latent community that exists mostly in the Political Science and Economics communities.

In recent years, a larger and larger group of political scientists have been doing quantitative-historical work that involves political economy.

Over the same timespan, in Economics, economic historians have increasingly focused on political-economy topics and taken seriously the “politics” in that research.

Given the boundaries that typically exist across academic disciplines, these two groups of scholars rarely talk to one another or read each other’s work.

The Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) will actively work to get the two groups in dialogue.

The journal therefore is interdisciplinary, and focuses mostly on reaching out to Political Scientists and Economists whose work focuses on historical political economy.

But scholars in related fields, like Sociology, Law, Business, History, and Public Policy, also work on political-economy topics and would naturally be interested in the journal as well.

The Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) serves as the focal point for the best research in these areas, work that is now being published in disparate journals in different disciplines.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.544

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	6

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10691

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	65

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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, Economics, Econometrics and Finance 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.

• History Never Really Says Goodbye: A Critical Review of the Persistence Literature

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Leticia Arroyo, Noel

• Theory, History, and Political Economy

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Sean

• Sustaining Democracy with Force: Black Representation During Reconstruction

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Mario L., Jeffrey L., Sidak

• Turning History into Data: Data Collection, Measurement, and Inference in HPE

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Alexandra, Arthur

• Not-so-Natural Experiments in History

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Christian, Bryan

• Why Do Colonial Investments Persist Less in Anglophone than in Francophone Africa?

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Joan

• The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Bastian

• Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery

  Citation: 5

  Authors: David A., Eric

• Slavery, Elections and Political Affiliations in Colombia

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Ali T., Marcus, Mateo

• Fiscal Policy and the Long Shadows of History

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Jarosław

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