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| Discipline | History |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1966–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 0.769 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Contemp. Hist. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0022-0094 (print) 1461-7250 (web) |
| LCCN | 66009877 |
| JSTOR | 00220094 |
| OCLC no. | 1783199 |
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TheJournal of Contemporary History is a quarterlypeer-reviewedacademic journal covering the study of history in all parts of the world since 1930. It was established in 1966 byWalter Laqueur andGeorge L. Mosse. Originally published byWeidenfeld & Nicolson it was purchased bySAGE Publications in 1972. Theeditors-in-chief areRichard J. Evans (University of Cambridge) and Mary C. Neuburger (University of Texas at Austin).
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The journal publishes scholarly articles, review articles and book reviews, covering a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural, on every country and region of the world within living memory, from 1930 to the present day. The journal also publishes special issues, arising from conferences or from an externally submitted proposal.
Since 2008, the journal has included reviews of individual books, in addition to review articles covering a range of books within the compass of a single critical essay.
The journal is abstracted and indexed inScopus[1] and theSocial Sciences Citation Index.[2]
The journal has been described as "an excellent international publication".[3] TheTimes Literary Supplement has described it as "one of the outstanding learned journals of history in the English-speaking world."[4]
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018impact factor of 0.769, ranking it 22nd out of 95 journals in the category "History".[5]
