Historical Social Research

*Historical Social Research*
Discipline	Social history, humanities, social science
Language	English, German
Edited by	Wilhelm Heinz Schröder
Publication details
Former name(s)	QUANTUM Information
History	1976-present
Publisher	Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Delayed, after 6 months
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Hist. Soc. Res.
Indexing;
ISSN	0172-6404;
LCCN	83644046
JSTOR	01726404
OCLC no.	224464663
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung (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 obtained its current name in 1979.^[1] 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]

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:

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

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

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)

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

Volume 41.4 (2016): National Political Elites and the Crisis of European Integration
Volume 41.3 (2016): Established-Outsider Relations/Knowledge Transfer as Intercultural Translation
Volume 41.2 (2016): Conventions and Quantification
Volume 41.1 (2016): Risk & Social History
Supplement 28 (2016): Zeitgeschichte zwischen Politik, Biografie und Methodik (Contemporary History Between Politics, Biographies, and Methods) (Note: Only in German)