The journal impact has become a significant criteria to define the value of of an academic journal. For example, in 2011, the European Science Foundation has admitted the HSR to the category of “international top-journal (INT1 Sub-Category).”
A selection of other important indicators you can find here:
Seit 2006 ist die HSR bei Ebsco im Bestand SocINDEX with Full Text eingebunden. Dort sind für Lizenznehmer alle HSR-Ausgaben ab dem Jahrgang 28 (2003) in Volltext verfügbar. Die Online-Ausgabe erscheint jeweils zeitgleich mit der Printausgabe, was in den letzten Jahren erheblich zur weltweiten Rezeption der HSR-Beiträge beigetragen hat.
Insgesamt gab es 16.928 Volltext-Downloads in 2023. Die Zugriffe – fast ausschließlich Universitäten, Bibliotheken und Forschungsinstitute – kamen aus 62 Ländern, 55% der User kommen aus den USA.
Since August 2011, the HSR and HSR Supplement have been included in JSTOR (without Moving Wall). The most relevant statistics for 2023were the 220,359 full-text downloads, averaging 18,363 downloads per month in total. Users from 185 countries access HSR content via JSTOR.
Since 2006, the HSR has been represented in the Social Science Citation Index from Thompson Scientific / Clarivate. The development of citations in the SSCI is positive – the 100-mark was reached in 2011; as of 27.07.2023, there were 1096 citations from the Web of Science Core Collection, whereby the h-index reached 28.
| Results found | 1237 |
| Sum of the times cited | 7323 |
Sum of the times cited without self-citations | 5964 |
| Citing articles | 5729 |
| Citing articles without self-citations | 5368 |
| Average citations per article | 5.92 |
| H-Index | 28 |
By means of Google Scholar's citations, it is possible to discern a journal’s impact through the cumulated citations of all HSR articles over longue durée (the maximum number of papers included is 1000). Over a longer period of time, the HSR has an h-index of 69.
Google Scholar
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
| Papers | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Citations | 4011 | 8559 | 10184 | 13129 | 14045 | 16657 | 19541 | 22770 | 27219 | 34090 |
| Cites/year | 117.97 | 244.54 | 212.17 | 345.50 | 280.90 | 416.43 | 476.61 | 517.50 | 633.00 | 774.77 |
| Cites/paper | 4.01 | 8.56 | 10.18 | 13.14 | 14.07 | 16.66 | 19.54 | 22.79 | 27.22 | 34.16 |
| h-index | 24 | 38 | 37 | 42 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 57 | 59 | 69 |