Historical Social Research (HSR) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science, social science, cultural studies, and history. It is the official journal of the QUANTUM association and is published by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. The journal was established in 1976 as QUANTUM Information and was renamed Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung in 1979, with the inclusion of both English and German titles representing the original bilingual nature of the journal.[1] Due to the internationalization of the journal over the past few decades, the journal’s title was shortened in 2021 to simply Historical Social Research. The journal publishes four issues plus one supplement per year. All content is available as open access after six months.[2]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:[3]
- SocINDEX
- Social Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- Sociological Abstracts
- Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO)
- International Political Science Abstracts
- Social Research Methodology Database
- Social Science Literature Information System
Editorial board
- Main editors
- Heinrich Best (Jena), also Managing Editor
- Wilhelm H. Schröder (Cologne), also Managing Editor-in-Chief
- Managing editors
- Wilhelm H. Schröder, Editor-In-Chief (Cologne)
- Nina Baur (Berlin)
- Heinrich Best (Jena)
- Rainer Diaz-Bone (Lucerne)
- Philip J. Janssen (Cologne)
- Johannes Marx (Bamberg)
Topics overview
The HSR has covered a plethora of topics since its inception in 1976. Here is a short overview of the volumes from the last five years:
- Year 2021
- Volume 46.2 (2021): Positionality Reloaded: Debating the Dimensions of Reflexivity in the Relationship Between Science and Society
- Volume 46.1 (2021): Conventions, Health and Society – Convention Theory as an Institutionalist Approach to the Political Economy of Health
- Year 2020
- Volume 45.4 (2020): Negotiating the Aftermath of Violence Induced Mobility in the Wake of the Second World War. Rethinking Sources, Methods and Approaches from the Intersection of War and Migration Studies in the Digital Age
- Volume 45.3 (2020): Social Finance, Impact Investing, and the Financialization of the Public Interest/Challenges for Big Data Analysis
- Volume 45.2 (2020): Military and Welfare State: Conscription, Military Interests, and Western Welfare States in the Age of Industrialized Mass Warfare
- Volume 45.1 (2020): Emotion, Authority, and National Character: Historical-Processual Perspectives
- Year 2019[4]
- Supplement 32 (2019): Celebrity’s Histories: Case Studies & Critical Perspectives
- Volume 44.4 (2019): Entrepreneurial Groups and Entrepreneurial Families
- Volume 44.3 (2019): Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present
- Volume 44.2 (2019): Governing by Numbers
- Volume 44.1 (2019): Markets, Organizations, and Law
- Year 2018[5]
- Volume 43.4 (2018): Challenged Elites - Elites as Challengers
- Volume 43.3 (2018): Economists, Politics, and Society
- Volume 43.2 (2018): Visualities - Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources
- Volume 43.1 (2018): Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science, History, and Philosophy
- Supplement 31 (2018): Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities
- Supplement 30 (2018): Historische Migrationsforschung (Historical Migration Studies) (Note: Only in German)
- Year 2017[6]
- Volume 42.4 (2017): Changing Power Relations and the Drag Effects of Habitus
- Volume 42.3 (2017): Critique and Social Change: Historical, Cultural, and Institutional Perspectives
- Volume 42.2 (2017): The Impact of Religious Denomination on Mentality and Behavior / Spatial Dimensions of Governance in 20th Century Political Struggles
- Volume 42.1 (2017): Markets and Classifications. Categorizations and Valuations as Social Processes Structuring Markets
- Supplement 29 (2017): From History to Applied Computer Science in the Humanities
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