Historical Social Research
Encyclopedia
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.
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. Since then it has been published by the Center for Historical Social Research (Cologne, Germany).
, Social Science Citation Index, Scopus
, and Sociological Abstracts
.
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
covering social history
Social history
Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...
. Articles are in English or German. The journal has official links to several academic associations.
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. Since then it has been published by the Center for Historical Social Research (Cologne, Germany).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in SocINDEXEBSCO Industries
EBSCO Industries, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a privately held, widely diversified corporation and the largest subscription agency in the world. It was founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens...
, Social Science Citation Index, Scopus
Scopus
Scopus, officially named SciVerse Scopus, is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 18,000 titles from over 5,000 international publishers, including coverage of 16,500 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical,...
, and Sociological Abstracts
CSA (database company)
CSA Illumina is a provider of online databases, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is now a division of ProQuest, which in turn is now a subsidiary of the Cambridge Information Group...
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