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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics10.298
2 Heritage Science9.124
3 Latin American Research Review7.657
4 European Security6.881
5 Journal of Chinese Political Science6.510
6 Post-Soviet Affairs5.816
7 Public Understanding of Science5.650
8 Journal of Responsible Innovation5.633
9 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.549
10 Agriculture and Human Values5.405
11 Social Studies of Science5.128
12 ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage5.076
13 Daedalus4.957
14 Science & Education4.869
15 Synthese4.551
16 Journal of Contemporary China4.283
17 Journal of Consumer Culture4.250
18 East European Politics4.236
19 Minerva4.115
20 Theory Culture & Society4.044
21 Cultural Studies of Science Education4.027
22 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.026
23 Games and Culture3.809
24 Science As Culture3.768
25 Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts3.703
26 Biology & Philosophy3.655
27 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.466
28 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.452
29 Social Epistemology3.367
30 Pacific Review3.340
31 International Journal of Cultural Studies3.336
32 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science3.184
33 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies3.168
34 Journal of Cultural Economy3.045
35 International Journal of Heritage Studies2.873
36 Engineering Studies2.846
37 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.845
38 Nanoethics2.827
39 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.814
40 Historic Environment-Policy & Practice2.802
41 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.717
42 Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry2.698
43 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.623
44 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.592
45 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.567
46 African Affairs2.551
47 Museum Management and Curatorship2.547
48 International Journal of Cultural Policy2.506
49 Biosemiotics2.488
50 European Journal of Cultural Studies2.457
51 Foundations of Chemistry2.351
52 Critical Asian Studies2.292
53 Turkish Studies2.258
54 Middle East Critique2.219
55 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies2.203
56 Philosophy of Science2.185
57 Asian Survey2.168
58 Space and Culture2.143
59 Cultural Trends2.125
60 Central Asian Survey2.096
61 Eurasian Geography and Economics2.082
62 Empirical Studies of the Arts2.074
63 Pacific Affairs2.052
64 Signs and Society2.022
65 Review of African Political Economy2.005
66 Journal of African Media Studies2.000
67 Medical Humanities1.968
68 Journal of Eastern African Studies1.960
69 Foundations of Science1.954
70 Postcolonial Studies1.897
71 Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies1.879
72 Social Semiotics1.863
73 New Genetics and Society1.825
74 Africa Spectrum1.776
75 China Quarterly1.769
76 Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power1.754
77 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.726
78 Latin American Politics and Society1.714
79 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.709
80 Modern China1.633
81 Digital Scholarship in the Humanities1.610
82 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.605
83 Indonesia and the Malay World1.597
84 Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies1.582
85 South Atlantic Quarterly1.571
86 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.569
87 Memory Studies1.568
88 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies1.542
89 Cultural Studies1.469
90 Senses & Society1.468
91 Mediterranean Politics1.460
92 East European Politics and Societies1.449
93 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.405
94 Celebrity Studies1.389
95 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.371
96 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.366
97 Semiotica1.362
98 Journal of Material Culture1.351
99 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.332
100 Nexus Network Journal1.330
101 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.287
102 Public Culture1.248
103 African Studies1.234
104 Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies1.183
105 Journal of Modern African Studies1.156
106 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies1.115
107 History of Science1.088
108 Representations1.085
109 Middle East Policy1.081
110 Trames-Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences1.077
111 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.076
112 China Information1.064
113 Journal of African Cultural Studies1.060
114 Social Science Japan Journal1.056
115 India Review1.050
116 History of the Human Sciences1.048
117 Journal of Palestine Studies1.045
118 Osiris1.039
119 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.031
120 Journal of Scholarly Publishing1.022
121 Science and Technology Studies1.017
122 Bilig1.008
123 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.989
124 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte0.971
125 Endeavour0.962
126 Europe-Asia Studies0.951
127 Journal of Southern African Studies0.946
128 China Perspectives0.945
129 Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture0.925
130 Centaurus0.915
131 Contemporary South Asia0.895
132 European Review0.862
133 IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies0.858
134 Curator-The Museum Journal0.852
135 Journal of the History of Biology0.849
136 Korea Observer0.841
137 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.840
138 Modern Asian Studies0.831
139 Journal of Arts Management Law and Society0.825
140 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.821
141 Latin American Perspectives0.820
142 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies0.819
- Visual Studies0.819
144 Asian Studies Review0.814
145 Configurations0.810
146 Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie/Yearbook of Music Psychology0.808
147 CR-The New Centennial Review0.806
148 Journal of Visual Culture0.792
149 Cryptologia0.768
150 Journal of the American Institute for Conservation0.763
151 Journal of Canadian Studies-Revue d'Etudes Canadiennes0.759
152 Medical History0.744
153 Critical Inquiry0.723
154 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies0.704
- Israel Affairs0.704
156 Positions-Asia Critique0.701
- Pacific Focus0.701
158 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science0.695
159 South East Asia Research0.694
160 Text and Performance Quarterly0.692
161 Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies0.674
162 History and Philosophy of Logic0.671
163 China Journal0.668
164 Journal of Baltic Studies0.667
165 East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.663
166 European Journal of English Studies0.659
167 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies0.653
168 NTM0.652
169 Isis0.646
170 Textile-Cloth and Culture0.630
171 Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.627
172 Journal for the History of Astronomy0.621
- Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies0.621
174 French Cultural Studies0.600
175 Africa0.589
176 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.588
177 Grey Room0.577
178 Journal of Aesthetic Education0.573
179 Theology and Science0.569
180 South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies0.542
181 Journal of European Studies0.521
182 Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture0.519
183 Journal of Latin American Studies0.502
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.502
185 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing0.498
186 Disparidades-Revista de Antropologia0.495
187 Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association0.492
- Muslim World0.492
189 Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy0.464
190 Ambix0.463
191 Historical Records of Australian Science0.460
192 Patterns of Prejudice0.456
193 Annals of Science0.452
194 Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies0.448
195 Journal of American Folklore0.441
196 Parallax0.437
197 Historia Mathematica0.420
198 International Journal of Middle East Studies0.414
199 Angelaki-Journal of the Theoretical Humanities0.410
200 Middle Eastern Studies0.407
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