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Was in history

publishing company SAGE Publications , London
First edition 1994
Frequency of publication quarterly
editor Simon Ball , Mary Kathryn Barbier and Phillips O'Brien
Web link wih.sagepub.com
ISSN (print) 0968-3445

War in History (WiH) is a leading academic journal on military history . She wants to understand military history research within the science of history . The multi-period course covers aspects such as economics, social affairs, politics and the military. In addition to general topics, the English-language articles deal with the sub-areas of land, air and naval forces. The journal uses a double-blind peer review and is published quarterly (three times a year: 1994/95) by the science publisher SAGE Publications in London.

It was founded in 1994 by the military historians Dennis Showalter , Colorado College , and Hew Strachan , University of Glasgow . Strachan later held the famous Chichele Chair in War History at the University of Oxford . War in History is currently edited by Simon Ball , University of Leeds , Mary Kathryn Barbier , Mississippi State University , and Phillips O'Brien , University of Glasgow. These are supported by three book review editors, responsible for three different periods, and an editorial board currently made up of Belgian and Anglo-American members. The Advisory Editorial Board consists of recognized historians and others. a. Azar Gat , Jeffrey Gray , Michael Howard , Richard Overy , Clifford J. Rogers and Martin van Creveld , German-speaking representatives are Jürgen Förster (Freiburg im Breisgau), Stig Förster (Bern), Lothar Höbelt (Vienna) and Sönke Neitzel (Potsdam).

Numerous renowned scholars published in the journal War in History . In 2002, the American officer and military writer Terence Zuber sparked a scientific controversy with his book Inventing the Schlieffen Plan ( Oxford University Press ). His controversial thesis of the subsequent invention of the Schlieffen Plan , which he developed in the local journal in 1999 and presented at a conference of the Military History Research Office (MGFA) and the Otto von Bismarck Foundation , was later published in the Journal of Military History and War in History are discussed extensively. In addition to Zuber u. a. Terence Holmes ( Swansea University ) and Robert T. Foley ( King's College London ). Research by the military historian Gerhard P. Groß (MGFA) at the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv ultimately refuted Zuber's thesis, which the German national daily newspapers Die Welt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.

The journal can be found in the citation databases Scopus and Social Sciences Citation Index . In 2011, Times Higher Education magazine included the annual citations, the annual impact factor and the 5-year impact factor among the 20 leading historical journals. According to Thompson Reuters , Journal Citation Reports (JCR), it has an Impact Factor (IF) of 0.237 (2013). In the history category she came in 33rd out of 72 and in the international relations category 71 out of 83. She is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annika Mombauer : The Moltkeplan: Modification of the Schlieffenplan with the same goals? In: Hans Ehlert , Michael Epkenhans , Gerhard P. Groß (eds.): The Schlieffenplan. Analyzes and documents (= age of the world wars. Vol. 2). 2nd, revised edition, Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-75629-9 , p. 80.
  2. ^ David Welch: War Aims and the 'Big Ideas' of 1914 . In: David Welch, Jo Fox (Eds.): Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. a. 2012, ISBN 978-0-230-24627-0 , p. 92.
  3. ↑ Rainer Blasius : The great war game: Schlieffen and the deployment planning in the west 1905 to 1914 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 6, 2004, p. N3.
  4. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : No memorandum for games: A Potsdam conference on the Schlieffen Plan states: It was the basis for the German deployment in 1914 . In: Die Welt , vol. 59, October 5, 2004, No. 233, p. 28.
  5. ↑ Top 20 Journals in History . In: Times Higher Education , Jan. 30, 2011.