The International Journal of Maritime History is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers all aspects of maritime history. The European Science Foundation's European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) ranks it as a "Class One" journal. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and Historical Abstracts. The journal was established in 1989 and published by the . Since 2013/14 it has been published by Sage Publications. It also publishes monographs titled Research in Maritime History. The founding editor-in-chief was Lewis R. Fischer, who was succeeded by David Starkey in 2013.