''Historical Social Research'' is a quarterly

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covering

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, and

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. It is the official journal of the QUANTUM association and is published by

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. 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. Due to the internationalization of the journal over the past few decades, its title was shortened in 2021 to the current one. The

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are Wilhelm Heinz Schröder and Heinrich Best.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * EBSCO databases *

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* International Bibliography of the Social Sciences *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 0.806.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.gesis.org/en/hsr/ Academic journals established in 1976 Social history journals Multilingual journals Delayed open access journals Quarterly journals