Where Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Funded Research Is Published: Top 50 Journals

In shortArts and Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom) is named as a funder in the recent research articles of 210 journals we checked, most often in City Culture and Society (9 of 95 recent articles). The journals below publish its funded work most often; open a journal for its indexing, review time, reviewer comments and fee waivers.

Journals that publish Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research most often

#	Journal	Articles naming it	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	City Culture and Society	9 of 95	Scopus	2.46	n/a
2	Royal Studies Journal	7 of 64	Scopus	0.05	n/a
3	Cultural and Social History	6 of 122	AHCI	0.28	223 days
4	Fashion Practice	6 of 69	AHCI	1.03	n/a
5	Area	5 of 188	SSCI	1.66	210 days
6	Central Asian Survey	5 of 163	SSCI	1.20	238 days
7	European Journal of Philosophy	5 of 192	AHCI	0.95	137 days
8	Inquiry	5 of 200	AHCI SSCI	1.66	98 days
9	Journal of War and Culture Studies	5 of 57	ESCI	0.29	228 days
10	Media Culture & Society	5 of 198	SSCI	4.11	n/a
11	Ratio	5 of 71	AHCI	0.77	96 days
12	European Journal of Cultural Studies	4 of 200	AHCI SSCI	2.02	n/a
13	Green Letters	4 of 111	Scopus	0.61	284 days
14	Journal of Open Humanities Data	4 of 200	ESCI	0.69	n/a
15	Journal of Phonetics	4 of 114	AHCI SSCI	2.05	n/a
16	Open Library of Humanities	4 of 103	ESCI	0.29	n/a
17	Rethinking History	4 of 91	AHCI SSCI	0.81	358 days
18	Synthese	4 of 200	AHCI SCIE SSCI	1.72	247 days
19	Textual Practice	4 of 200	AHCI	0.34	287 days
20	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	4 of 134	SSCI	3.57	280 days
21	Transactions of the Philological Society	4 of 68	AHCI	0.37	218 days
22	Archaeometry	3 of 200	AHCI SCIE	1.18	190 days
23	Children s Geographies	3 of 154	SSCI	1.89	300 days
24	Cultural Geographies	3 of 134	SSCI	0.51	n/a
25	Digital Scholarship in the Humanities	3 of 200	AHCI SSCI	1.18	n/a
26	Early Medieval Europe	3 of 111	AHCI	0.10	137 days
27	English Studies	3 of 200	AHCI	0.22	155 days
28	Erkenntnis	3 of 200	AHCI	1.01	275 days
29	European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy	3 of 48	ESCI	3.61	n/a
30	Exemplaria	3 of 32	AHCI	0.21	n/a
31	Feminist Theory	3 of 143	SSCI	2.05	n/a
32	Global Studies Quarterly	3 of 200	Scopus	3.20	n/a
33	Glossa a journal of general linguistics	3 of 200	AHCI SSCI	0.78	n/a
34	i-Perception	3 of 121	SSCI	1.10	n/a
35	Journal of Applied Arts and Health	3 of 73	Scopus	0.25	n/a
36	Journal of Eastern African Studies	3 of 62	SSCI	1.14	328 days
37	Journal of Genocide Research	3 of 127	ESCI	3.60	185 days
38	Journal of Historical Geography	3 of 200	SSCI	0.84	n/a
39	Modern & Contemporary France	3 of 106	AHCI	0.28	n/a
40	Museum Management and Curatorship	3 of 128	AHCI	1.92	173 days
41	Music & Science	3 of 99	Scopus	2.16	n/a
42	Noûs	3 of 97	AHCI	2.01	274 days
43	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research	3 of 200	AHCI	2.09	189 days
44	Qualitative Inquiry	3 of 161	SSCI	2.62	n/a
45	Quarterly Review of Film and Video	3 of 91	Scopus	0.36	n/a
46	Quaternary Science Advances	3 of 111	ESCI	4.25	n/a
47	Sexualities	3 of 156	SSCI	1.68	n/a
48	Social & Cultural Geography	3 of 191	SSCI	1.68	323 days
49	The Historical Journal	3 of 152	AHCI SSCI	0.54	n/a
50	The Review of English Studies	3 of 197	AHCI	0.04	n/a

"Articles naming" counts the research articles (of up to 200 from the last 24 months) whose funder list names Arts and Humanities Research Council. *Impact factor calculated from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value. Review time: median days from submission to acceptance, from the dates publishers deposit in Crossref.

Funders named alongside Arts and Humanities Research Council

Other funders that appear in the same journals. Their pages show where their funded research is published.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft European Research Council Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Leverhulme Trust Economic and Social Research Council British Academy Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Australian Research Council National Natural Science Foundation of China Swedish Research Council National Social Science Fund of China Research Council of Finland National Science Foundation Norges Forskningsråd European Commission Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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Frequently asked questions

Which journals publish the most Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research?

In the recent research articles we checked, the journals that name Arts and Humanities Research Council as a funder most often are City Culture and Society, Royal Studies Journal, Cultural and Social History, Fashion Practice, Area. In all, 210 journals name it.

Does publishing in these journals help my Arts and Humanities Research Council grant?

These journals already publish work supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council, so editors and reviewers know this kind of research. Whether a journal suits your paper still depends on its scope, indexing and review time, shown for each journal in the table.

Does Arts and Humanities Research Council pay the article processing charge (APC)?

Many funders pay or reimburse open access fees under their open access policy, but the rules differ by funder and by grant. Check Arts and Humanities Research Council's open access policy and your grant terms; for country-based waivers, use the free APC waiver checker.

Where does this data come from?

From the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name. Not every publisher deposits funders, so a journal can be missing.

Source, method and date. Source: the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. Method: for each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; spelling variants of a funder are combined. Updated: 29 October 2026. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with Arts and Humanities Research Council or these journals.