New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

History & Archaeology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.023
2 Journal of Archaeological Research7.026
3 Journal of Peasant Studies6.570
4 Latin American Research Review6.171
5 Annual Review of Anthropology6.152
6 European Security5.963
7 Social Networks5.895
8 Journal of Chinese Political Science5.681
9 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.607
10 Journal of Human Evolution5.546
11 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.303
12 Social Studies of Science5.218
13 Post-Soviet Affairs5.144
14 Public Understanding of Science4.951
15 Journal of Responsible Innovation4.927
16 Agriculture and Human Values4.837
17 Transcultural Psychiatry4.695
18 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.315
19 Minerva4.299
20 Science & Education4.240
21 Journal of Archaeological Science4.146
22 Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs4.110
23 Synthese4.015
24 Science As Culture3.930
25 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences3.814
26 East European Politics3.791
27 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology3.741
28 Journal of Contemporary China3.632
29 Biology & Philosophy3.598
30 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory3.544
31 Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective3.400
32 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.373
33 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.364
34 Evolutionary Anthropology3.337
35 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science3.237
36 Pacific Review3.166
37 Journal of Economic History3.050
38 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.938
39 Field Methods2.906
40 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies2.883
41 Nanoethics2.788
42 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.760
43 Engineering Studies2.737
44 Social Epistemology2.671
45 Journal of Ethnobiology2.642
46 Explorations in Economic History2.585
47 Human Ecology2.576
48 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.458
49 Journal of Social Archaeology2.456
50 Biosemiotics2.447
51 Cultural Anthropology2.431
52 African Affairs2.396
53 World Archaeology2.389
54 Current Anthropology2.272
55 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.245
56 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.232
57 Advances in Archaeological Practice2.226
58 Historical Methods2.219
59 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.205
60 American Journal of Human Biology2.171
61 Lithic Technology2.165
62 Journal of Field Archaeology2.160
63 Nations and Nationalism2.144
64 New Genetics and Society2.113
65 Race & Class2.112
- European Review of Economic History2.112
67 Archaeological Prospection2.111
68 Critique of Anthropology2.109
69 Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology2.099
70 Annals of Human Biology2.098
71 Medical Anthropology2.083
72 Journal of Eastern African Studies2.064
73 Central Asian Survey2.059
74 Turkish Studies2.045
75 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry2.031
76 Environmental Archaeology2.020
77 Philosophy of Science2.010
78 Management & Organizational History1.986
79 Foundations of Chemistry1.977
80 Archaeological Dialogues1.934
81 Anthropology & Medicine1.899
82 Asian Survey1.885
83 Eurasian Geography and Economics1.881
84 Critical Asian Studies1.879
85 Africa Spectrum1.871
86 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies1.867
87 Geoarchaeology-An International Journal1.855
88 Archaeometry1.847
89 Pacific Affairs1.818
90 American Anthropologist1.809
91 Ancient Mesoamerica1.799
92 Cambridge Archaeological Journal1.781
93 Antiquity1.778
94 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.775
95 Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology1.766
96 Anthropological Theory1.741
97 Review of African Political Economy1.731
98 Signs and Society1.723
99 Memory Studies1.722
100 Foundations of Science1.716
101 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.700
102 Levant1.654
103 Cliometrica1.638
104 Middle East Critique1.637
105 Journal of Historical Sociology1.630
106 China Quarterly1.610
107 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology1.586
108 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.582
109 History and Technology1.568
110 Ethos1.550
111 Archaeological Research in Asia1.533
112 Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University1.531
113 Postcolonial Studies1.500
114 Australian Economic History Review1.486
115 Modern China1.474
116 African Archaeological Review1.455
117 Medical Anthropology Quarterly1.454
118 Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology1.452
119 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies1.437
120 Indonesia and the Malay World1.433
121 Open Archaeology1.426
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.426
123 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.413
124 American Ethnologist1.382
125 Latin American Politics and Society1.368
126 Past & Present1.366
127 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.354
128 Ethnography1.349
129 Journal of Material Culture1.337
130 Social Anthropology1.321
131 Economic Anthropology1.311
132 East European Politics and Societies1.307
133 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology1.288
134 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.261
- Archaeofauna1.261
136 Journal of Philosophy of Education1.245
137 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.239
138 Mediterranean Politics1.225
139 Economic History Review1.217
140 Anthropological Forum1.212
141 History of the Family1.208
142 Ethnos1.204
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa1.204
144 Cultural Studies1.201
145 China Information1.200
146 Comparative Studies in Society and History1.192
147 Journal of Modern African Studies1.184
148 Public Culture1.180
149 Science and Technology Studies1.170
150 Archaeology in Oceania1.164
151 History of Psychiatry1.162
152 Studies in Conservation1.159
153 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.133
154 Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress1.126
155 Latin American Antiquity1.125
156 African Studies1.120
157 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.105
158 Nexus Network Journal1.100
159 American Antiquity1.098
160 European Journal of Archaeology1.091
161 Business History1.073
162 Social Analysis1.054
163 International Journal of Historical Archaeology1.052
164 Estudios Atacamenos1.044
165 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.043
166 Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports1.030
167 Journal of Global History1.018
168 Centaurus1.016
169 Europe-Asia Studies0.988
170 History and Theory0.975
171 India Review0.971
172 Trabajos de Prehistoria0.967
173 Anthropologie0.956
174 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.939
175 Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy0.937
176 Journal of Maritime Archaeology0.934
177 Anthropologischer Anzeiger0.932
178 Anthropology & Education Quarterly0.924
179 Endeavour0.911
180 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies0.910
181 History of Political Economy0.909
182 Middle East Policy0.907
183 History of Science0.905
184 Planning Perspectives0.902
185 History and Anthropology0.901
186 Osiris0.896
187 Human Organization0.888
- International Studies in the Philosophy of Science0.888
189 China Perspectives0.884
190 Journal of the History of Biology0.882
191 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.863
192 Scandinavian Journal of History0.860
193 History of the Human Sciences0.859
194 Journal of Southern African Studies0.854
195 Intelligence and National Security0.853
196 History of Psychology0.851
197 Social Science Japan Journal0.841
198 Bilig0.828
199 Rethinking History0.816
200 Labor History0.808
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