Journal of American History
Oxford University Press · US · ISSN 00218723
SJR Q1
What the numbers say
Publication volume and citation impact have both dropped noticeably.
Both output and citation impact declined. If you need high citedness for evaluation, look elsewhere or justify it explicitly. Field-weighted citation impact moved from 3.48 to 0.47. Do not assume published pieces will attract substantial field-weighted citations. The share of top-10% cited papers moved from 20.3% to 4.5%. Expect far fewer papers from this journal to appear among the most-cited in the field. Colonialism, slavery, and trade rose from 4.3% to 8.5% of what the journal runs. If your work focuses on colonialism, slavery, or trade it may align better with the journal’s recent content mix.
Citation metrics
SJR quartile
Q1
SJR score
0.23
Citations / doc (2y)
0.40
h-index
240
Based on the Scopus and OpenAlex citation graphs. We do not provide Clarivate’s JCR Impact Factor.
Output and citation impact
Whether citation performance keeps up as output grows.
PapersField-weighted impact
2018
533
3.48
2019
811
4.30
2020
568
4.48
2021
365
1.89
2022
345
3.22
2023
338
2.74
2024
356
2.57
2025
318
0.47
Topic shift
Share in the last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) versus the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
Rising
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade4.3%→8.5%+4.2%pPrevNow
- Race, History, and American Society19.8%→22.9%+3.1%pPrevNow
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies0.0%→2.5%+2.5%pPrevNow
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies0.0%→2.2%+2.2%pPrevNow
Falling
- American History and Culture18.2%→10.7%−7.6%pPrevNow
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis5.0%→2.2%−2.8%pPrevNow
- Canadian Identity and History2.5%→0.0%−2.5%pPrevNow
Terms appearing more often
Wording in recent paper titles that stands out against the journal's own baseline.
remadetranspacificfoughtantebellumslavery
Author countries
Last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) against the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
- US94.8%→94.1%−0.8%pPrevNow
- CA1.5%→2.5%+1.0%pPrevNow
- GB1.7%→2.0%+0.3%pPrevNow
- AU0.8%→0.7%−0.2%pPrevNow
- JP0.0%→0.3%+0.3%pPrevNow
- BR0.0%→0.2%+0.2%pPrevNow
Top 5 institutions
Top 5 institutions publishing in this journal, 2018 – 2026.
Recently published
20The 20 most recent papers — not the full list.
1
Article2026
Corrections2
Article2026
Wanted! A Nation! Black Americans and Haiti, 1804–1893Walter E. Kretchık*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
3
4
Article2026
The Museo del WestsideAntonia Castañeda, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
Visual Arts and Performing ArtsArts and Humanities
5
Article2026
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary AmericaJoseph P Moore*
Literature and Literary TheoryArts and Humanities
6
Article2026
Mississippi's Black CottonNan Elizabeth Woodruff*
Plant ScienceAgricultural and Biological Sciences
7
Article2026
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal AmericaAndrew W. Kahrl*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
8
Article2026
The Spirit of the Game: American Christianity and Big-Time SportsThomas Carty*
HistoryArts and Humanities
9
Article2026
Interchange: The Practice of Community-Engaged Native American HistoryHealthSocial Sciences
10
Article2026
“Just keep in mind, America does have history”: Challenges and Collaborative Methods for Native American HistoryElizabeth Ellis*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
11
Article2026
The Insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State ConspiracyD J Mulloy*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
12
13
Article2026
Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and MemoryM Keith Harris*
Literature and Literary TheoryArts and Humanities
14
Article2026
From Every Stormy Wind That Blows: The Idea of Howard College and the Origins of Samford UniversityEvan C. Rothera*
HistoryArts and Humanities
15
Article2026
Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century AmericaSarah Purcell*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
16
Article2026
Announcements17
Article2026
Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women's Fury in Lawless TimesFrancesca Gamber*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
18
Article2026
H. R. Haldeman, Dynastic Politics in California, and the Dismissal of University of California President Clark KerrNick Fischer*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
19
Article2026
Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral EugenicsJulia B. Haager*
HistoryArts and Humanities
20
Article2026
Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central LouisianaHenry O. Robertson*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
Most cited
20Top 20 most cited, 2018 – 2026.
1
ArticleCitations 4302019
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian RevolutionAshli White*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
2
ArticleCitations 3532020
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing RockSherry L. Smith*
Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawEnvironmental Science
3
ArticleCitations 3262020
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United StatesDavid Greenstein*
Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences
4
ArticleCitations 2972018
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a NationJames Simeone*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
5
ArticleCitations 2742019
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental RailroadAntoinette Burton*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
6
ArticleCitations 2472020
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthWilma King*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
7
ArticleCitations 2072021
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First CenturyCharles P. Henry*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
8
ArticleCitations 2042020
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaIvan Ibargüan*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
9
ArticleCitations 1982019
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State NationalismJonathan Y. Okamura*
Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences
10
ArticleCitations 1812021
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarMatthew Mason*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
11
ArticleCitations 1692020
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End ViolenceCarrie N. Baker*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
12
ArticleCitations 1442022
Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond InstitutionsSherry L. Smith*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
13
ArticleCitations 1372018
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth GapMadhavi Venkatesan*
FinanceEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
14
ArticleCitations 1362018
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great MigrationJuan M. Floyd‐Thomas*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
15
ArticleCitations 1352020
The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American PoliticsIan C. Hartman*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
16
ArticleCitations 1342022
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllKaren Cook Bell*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
17
ArticleCitations 1232020
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering StraitJames Spiller*
General Health ProfessionsHealth Professions
18
ArticleCitations 1222022
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the ConstitutionRebecca E. Zietlow*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
19
ArticleCitations 1212018
Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic DivideJane Berger*
Public AdministrationSocial Sciences
20
ArticleCitations 932019
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryWalter D. Greason*
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
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