New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Arts & Humanities

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics12.300
2 Heritage Science11.312
3 Journal of Chinese Political Science8.168
4 European Security7.959
5 Journal of Responsible Innovation6.328
6 Agriculture and Human Values6.220
7 Public Understanding of Science6.024
8 Post-Soviet Affairs5.914
9 Social Studies of Science5.868
10 ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage5.774
11 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.632
12 Science & Education5.342
13 Journal of Contemporary China4.469
14 Games and Culture4.410
15 Social Epistemology4.276
16 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.146
17 Theory Culture & Society4.112
18 Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts4.020
19 Minerva3.977
20 Biology & Philosophy3.820
21 Cultural Studies of Science Education3.776
22 Journal of Consumer Culture3.757
23 International Journal of Cultural Studies3.747
24 International Journal of Heritage Studies3.458
25 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs3.411
26 Pacific Review3.351
27 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.336
28 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies3.308
29 East European Politics3.242
30 Nanoethics3.075
31 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.989
32 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics2.871
33 Museum Management and Curatorship2.846
34 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.795
35 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science2.775
36 Engineering Studies2.758
- Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry2.758
38 International Journal of Cultural Policy2.738
39 Middle East Critique2.620
40 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.610
41 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.599
42 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies2.593
43 Journal of Cultural Economy2.565
44 Daedalus2.560
45 European Journal of Cultural Studies2.555
46 Science As Culture2.535
47 Critical Asian Studies2.534
48 Eurasian Geography and Economics2.504
49 Biosemiotics2.490
50 Asian Survey2.486
51 Turkish Studies2.410
52 African Affairs2.396
53 Empirical Studies of the Arts2.331
54 Historic Environment-Policy & Practice2.324
55 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.203
56 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies2.087
57 Latin American Politics and Society2.038
- Journal of Eastern African Studies2.038
59 Foundations of Science2.037
60 Social Semiotics2.011
61 Cultural Trends2.000
62 Philosophy of Science1.993
63 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.910
64 New Genetics and Society1.887
65 China Quarterly1.878
66 Medical Humanities1.817
67 Memory Studies1.799
68 Digital Scholarship in the Humanities1.784
69 Africa Spectrum1.783
70 Central Asian Survey1.751
71 Signs and Society1.726
72 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.720
73 Pacific Affairs1.713
74 Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power1.707
75 East European Politics and Societies1.700
76 Senses & Society1.699
77 Mediterranean Politics1.687
78 Space and Culture1.679
79 Review of African Political Economy1.678
80 Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies1.665
81 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.649
82 Foundations of Chemistry1.645
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.645
84 Modern China1.632
85 Journal of African Media Studies1.615
86 Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies1.577
87 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies1.510
88 South Atlantic Quarterly1.461
89 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.439
90 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.427
91 Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies1.347
92 Semiotica1.343
93 Osiris1.312
94 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.310
95 Journal of Palestine Studies1.296
96 Journal of Modern African Studies1.261
97 Nexus Network Journal1.251
98 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.227
99 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.210
100 China Information1.167
101 Journal of African Cultural Studies1.159
102 History of the Human Sciences1.133
103 Cultural Studies1.126
104 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.111
105 Social Science Japan Journal1.106
106 History of Science1.101
107 India Review1.095
108 Celebrity Studies1.084
109 Postcolonial Studies1.064
110 Positions-Asia Critique1.059
111 African Studies1.051
112 Middle East Policy1.048
113 Curator-The Museum Journal1.039
114 Bilig1.025
115 Korea Observer1.023
116 Journal of Material Culture1.022
117 European Review1.010
118 Journal of Southern African Studies1.009
119 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies1.004
120 Contemporary South Asia1.000
121 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences0.996
122 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies0.989
123 Public Culture0.981
124 IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies0.959
125 Journal of Scholarly Publishing0.954
126 Asian Studies Review0.938
127 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science0.931
128 Science and Technology Studies0.928
129 Modern Asian Studies0.889
- Visual Studies0.889
131 Centaurus0.887
132 Trames-Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences0.882
133 Europe-Asia Studies0.879
134 Latin American Perspectives0.877
135 Journal of Arts Management Law and Society0.863
136 Journal of the History of Biology0.858
137 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.848
138 Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture0.838
139 East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.835
140 Journal of Visual Culture0.826
141 South East Asia Research0.821
142 Endeavour0.817
143 Pacific Focus0.805
144 Journal of Baltic Studies0.800
145 Grey Room0.794
- Indonesia and the Malay World0.794
147 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.791
148 Israel Affairs0.788
149 Parallax0.785
150 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.771
151 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies0.770
152 Medical History0.765
153 Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies0.761
154 History and Philosophy of Logic0.753
155 NTM0.738
156 China Perspectives0.735
157 French Cultural Studies0.732
158 Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie/Yearbook of Music Psychology0.720
159 Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies0.713
160 Text and Performance Quarterly0.692
161 Cryptologia0.676
162 Africa0.669
163 Critical Inquiry0.659
164 China Journal0.641
165 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte0.638
166 Configurations0.630
167 Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.629
168 Journal of Latin American Studies0.624
169 Journal of Canadian Studies-Revue d'Etudes Canadiennes0.611
170 Journal for the History of Astronomy0.605
171 Theology and Science0.597
172 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies0.596
173 Isis0.595
174 Disparidades-Revista de Antropologia0.587
175 Textile-Cloth and Culture0.572
176 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.544
177 Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture0.540
178 South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies0.535
179 Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies0.522
180 Journal of the American Institute for Conservation0.521
181 Historical Records of Australian Science0.519
182 Journal of European Studies0.497
183 Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies0.496
184 Representations0.495
185 CR-The New Centennial Review0.493
186 International Journal of Asian Studies0.491
187 Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy0.488
188 Journal of Aesthetic Education0.483
189 Middle Eastern Studies0.477
190 Angelaki-Journal of the Theoretical Humanities0.475
191 Annals of Science0.465
192 Asian Philosophy0.461
193 European Journal of English Studies0.458
194 Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association0.452
195 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing0.445
196 Journal of Medical Biography0.438
197 Muslim World0.435
198 Ambix0.431
199 Journal of American Folklore0.404
200 Journal of Australian Studies0.393
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