Also see History journal (which badly needs expanding) and List of history journals. This list may be destined for the Wikidata project.
The following is a partial list of academic journals in history. There are thousands of history journals currently being published, and many more have been published at various points in the past. The list given here is deliberately selective, and contains the most influential, currently active, peer-reviewed journals in each of several fields of history.
The list may serve as a resource for Wikipedia editors and members of that WikiProject on sharing resources.
History is sometimes treated as one of the humanities, and sometimes as a social science.
Online repositories are keyed this way: E (EBSCO), J (JSTOR), M (Project MUSE)
N.B. Citing one of these works as an authority does not exempt a statement from all criticism. Newer findings of fact generally supersede older ones, but a single historian's assertion may not reflect consensus, even in a refereed publication. Some refereed journals assume a deliberately doctrinaire, oppositional, or reactionary stance that may not be definitive. Some have not been refereed journals throughout their publishing history.
N.B. There are many history magazines (such as American Heritage) that are not academic journals. There is an incomplete list of less authoritative periodicals just below.
Some qualified academic journals are not listed here because they have only begun publishing in the last year or two.
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