History of Psychology® features refereed articles addressing all aspects of psychology's past and of its interrelationship with the many contexts within which it has emerged and has been practiced.

It also publishes scholarly work in closely related areas, such as historical psychology (the history of consciousness and behavior), psychohistory, theory in psychology as it pertains to history, historiography, biography and autobiography, the teaching of the history of psychology, and data mining regarding the history of psychology.

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Published quarterly, beginning in February
Average lag for online first 47 days
Average time to first decision 62 days
Rejection rate 42.9%
Impact factor 0.9
5-year impact factor 0.9
History of Social Sciences 18 of 45
Psychology - Multidisciplinary 161 of 222
Journal citation indicator 0.52
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ISSN 1093-4510
eISSN 1939-0610
Founded 1998