History & Archaeology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2024
1	Classical Review	ca. 6
2	Journal of Peasant Studies	ca. 4.8
3	Journal of Archaeological Research	ca. 4.1
-	Journal of Responsible Innovation	ca. 4.1
5	Agriculture and Human Values	ca. 3.6
-	European Security	ca. 3.6
7	Journal of Chinese Political Science	ca. 3.5
8	China Journal	ca. 3.4
9	Journal of Cultural Heritage	ca. 3.3
-	Public Understanding of Science	ca. 3.3
11	Minerva	ca. 3.2
12	Journal of Human Evolution	ca. 3.1
-	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	ca. 3.1
-	Evolutionary Anthropology	ca. 3.1
-	East European Politics	ca. 3.1
16	Science and Engineering Ethics	ca. 3
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	ca. 3
18	Journal of Economic History	ca. 2.9
19	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	ca. 2.8
-	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	ca. 2.8
-	Race & Class	ca. 2.8
22	Social Studies of Science	ca. 2.7
-	Annual Review of Anthropology	ca. 2.7
-	Transcultural Psychiatry	ca. 2.7
25	Science & Education	ca. 2.5
-	Journal of Archaeological Science	ca. 2.5
27	Journal of Contemporary China	ca. 2.4
-	Social Networks	ca. 2.4
-	Past & Present	ca. 2.4
-	Science As Culture	ca. 2.4
31	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	ca. 2.3
-	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	ca. 2.3
33	Archaeological Dialogues	ca. 2.2
-	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	ca. 2.2
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	ca. 2.2
-	Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective	ca. 2.2
-	African Affairs	ca. 2.2
-	Africa Spectrum	ca. 2.2
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	ca. 2.2
40	Social Epistemology	ca. 2
-	American Ethnologist	ca. 2
-	Nations and Nationalism	ca. 2
-	Pacific Review	ca. 2
-	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	ca. 2
45	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	ca. 1.9
-	Cultural Anthropology	ca. 1.9
-	American Antiquity	ca. 1.9
-	Archaeological Prospection	ca. 1.9
-	Biosemiotics	ca. 1.9
50	Biology & Philosophy	ca. 1.8

-	Postcolonial Studies	ca. 1.8
-	Culture Medicine and Psychiatry	ca. 1.8
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	ca. 1.8
-	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.8
-	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.8
-	Twentieth Century British History	ca. 1.8
-	Journal of Contemporary Asia	ca. 1.8
-	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	ca. 1.8
-	Central Asian Survey	ca. 1.8
-	Current Anthropology	ca. 1.8
61	Antiquity	ca. 1.7
-	Explorations in Economic History	ca. 1.7
-	Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology	ca. 1.7
-	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	ca. 1.7
-	Turkish Studies	ca. 1.7
-	Human Ecology	ca. 1.7
-	American Anthropologist	ca. 1.7
-	American Journal of Human Biology	ca. 1.7
-	China Information	ca. 1.7
-	Ethnos	ca. 1.7
71	Economic History Review	ca. 1.6
-	Advances in Archaeological Practice	ca. 1.6
-	Cambridge Archaeological Journal	ca. 1.6
-	Journal of Global History	ca. 1.6
-	Review of African Political Economy	ca. 1.6
-	Mediterranean Politics	ca. 1.6
-	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	ca. 1.6
-	Critique of Anthropology	ca. 1.6
79	Archaeometry	ca. 1.5
-	Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa	ca. 1.5
-	World Archaeology	ca. 1.5
-	Latin American Politics and Society	ca. 1.5
-	Middle East Critique	ca. 1.5
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	ca. 1.5
-	Social Anthropology	ca. 1.5
-	Nanoethics	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Field Archaeology	ca. 1.5
-	Anthropological Theory	ca. 1.5
-	New Genetics and Society	ca. 1.5
90	European Journal of Archaeology	ca. 1.4
-	Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports	ca. 1.4
-	Management & Organizational History	ca. 1.4
-	Critical Asian Studies	ca. 1.4
-	Foundations of Chemistry	ca. 1.4
-	Field Methods	ca. 1.4
-	International Journal of Middle East Studies	ca. 1.4
-	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	ca. 1.4
98	Engineering Studies	ca. 1.3
-	Oral History Review	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Maritime Archaeology	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Social Archaeology	ca. 1.3
-	Synthese	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	ca. 1.3
-	Annals of Human Biology	ca. 1.3
-	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	ca. 1.3
-	Australian Economic History Review	ca. 1.3
-	PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review	ca. 1.3
-	Ethos	ca. 1.3
-	Trabajos de Prehistoria	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Palestine Studies	ca. 1.3
-	Business History	ca. 1.3
112	American Historical Review	ca. 1.2
-	British Journal for the History of Science	ca. 1.2
-	Journal of Interdisciplinary History	ca. 1.2
-	Asian Survey	ca. 1.2
-	Pacific Affairs	ca. 1.2
-	Business History Review	ca. 1.2
-	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	ca. 1.2
-	Europe-Asia Studies	ca. 1.2
-	Australian Archaeology	ca. 1.2
-	History and Theory	ca. 1.2
-	Journal of American History	ca. 1.2
-	Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University	ca. 1.2
-	Lithic Technology	ca. 1.2
-	Memory Studies	ca. 1.2
-	Medical Anthropology	ca. 1.2
-	Signs and Society	ca. 1.2
-	Cultural Studies	ca. 1.2
129	Archaeological Research in Asia	ca. 1.1
-	History and Technology	ca. 1.1
-	Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies	ca. 1.1
-	Medical History	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Historical Geography	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Modern African Studies	ca. 1.1
-	Africa	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	ca. 1.1
-	Middle East Journal	ca. 1.1
-	Ethnography	ca. 1.1
-	Environmental Archaeology	ca. 1.1
-	African Archaeological Review	ca. 1.1
-	Asian Studies Review	ca. 1.1
-	Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies	ca. 1.1
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	ca. 1.1
-	Norwegian Archaeological Review	ca. 1.1
-	Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.1
-	Latin American Antiquity	ca. 1.1
-	Levant	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Asian Public Policy	ca. 1.1
-	Middle East Policy	ca. 1.1
-	Anthropology & Medicine	ca. 1.1
152	International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	ca. 1
-	Osiris	ca. 1
-	East European Politics and Societies	ca. 1
-	European Review of Economic History	ca. 1
-	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	ca. 1
-	Modern Intellectual History	ca. 1
-	Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology	ca. 1
-	Revue Historique	ca. 1
-	Social Science History	ca. 1
-	South African Historical Journal	ca. 1
-	Journal of Anthropological Research	ca. 1
-	Economic Anthropology	ca. 1
164	Foundations of Science	ca. 0.9
-	Historical Journal	ca. 0.9
-	Indonesia and the Malay World	ca. 0.9
-	Iranian Studies	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of African History	ca. 0.9
-	Planning Perspectives	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Early Modern History	ca. 0.9
-	Radical History Review	ca. 0.9
-	History of Political Economy	ca. 0.9
-	Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Asian and African Studies	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Latin American Studies	ca. 0.9

-	Modern China	ca. 0.9
-	Public Culture	ca. 0.9
-	Science and Technology Studies	ca. 0.9
-	Historical Methods	ca. 0.9
-	History Workshop Journal	ca. 0.9
-	Isis	ca. 0.9
-	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	ca. 0.9
-	Early Medieval Europe	ca. 0.9
-	Public Archaeology	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Material Culture	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Modern History	ca. 0.9
-	Social History	ca. 0.9
-	South East Asia Research	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of the Philosophy of History	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Southern African Studies	ca. 0.9
-	African Studies	ca. 0.9
-	China Perspectives	ca. 0.9
-	Contemporary Southeast Asia	ca. 0.9
-	Enterprise & Society	ca. 0.9
195	Environmental History	ca. 0.8
-	American Journal of Archaeology	ca. 0.8
-	Ancient Mesoamerica	ca. 0.8
-	Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy	ca. 0.8
-	History of Religions	ca. 0.8
-	Contemporary South Asia	ca. 0.8

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