| Historical Social Research | |
|---|---|
| Former name(s) | QUANTUM Information |
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | Hist. Soc. Res. |
| Discipline | Social history |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Wilhelm Heinz Schröder |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Center for Historical Research, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany) |
| Publication history | 1976-present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Open access | After 2 years |
| Impact factor (2009) |
0.256 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0172-6404 |
| LCCN | 83644046 |
| OCLC number | 224464663 |
| Links | |
Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering social history. Articles are in English or German. The journal has official links to several academic associations.[1]
The journal was established in 1976 as the newsletter of the QUANTUM Association under the title QUANTUM Information and got its present title in 1979.[1] Since then it has been published by the Center for Historical Social Research (Cologne, Germany).[1]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in SocINDEX, Social Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Sociological Abstracts.