About the Journal
Founded in 1952, Past & Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. The journal offers:
- A wide variety of scholarly and original articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world.
- Four issues a year, each containing five or six major articles plus occasional debates and review essays.
- Challenging work by young historians as well as seminal articles by internationally regarded scholars.
- A range of articles that appeal to specialists and non-specialists, and communicate the results of the most recent historical research in a readable and lively form.
- A forum for debate, encouraging productive controversy.
- The examination of particular problems and periods as well as wider issues of historical change.
Impact Factor
In the 2007 ISI Journal Citation Reports Past & Present is ranked 4/17 journals in the history category with an impact factor of 0.607.
Abstracting and Indexing Services
Past and Present is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:
ABC CLIO America: History and Life
ABC CLIO Historical Abstracts
Academic Search
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
ISI Arts & Humanities Citation Index
BHA: Bibliography History of Art
British Archaeological Bibliography
British Humanities Index
English Historical Review
Expanded Academic Index
Geographical Abstracts (Geo Abstracts)
Humanities Index
Humanities Source
Info-South Abstracts
ISI: Current Contents Arts/Humanities, Research Alert, Current Contents, Social Behavioural Sciences Social Sciences Citation Index
Magazine Search
Middle East Abstracts Index
Newspaper Periodicals Abstracts
NISC The Left Index
Numisamit Literature
Periodicals Contents Index
Social Planning Policy & Development Abstracts
Social Sciences Citation Index
Sociological Abstracts
Sportsearch
USA Political Science Document
Western History Quarterly