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. The journal publishes four issues plus one supplement per year. All content is available as open access after six months.^{[citation needed]}

Abstracting and indexing

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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:

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)

Volume 40.4 (2015): Animal Politics/Football History
Volume 40.3 (2015): Methods of Innovation Research
Volume 40.2 (2015): Climate and Beyond
Volume 40.1 (2015): Law and Conventions
Supplement 27 (2015): Politisierte Sozialstruktur (Politicized Social Structure) (Note: Only in German)