New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics13.058
2 Heritage Science11.926
3 Journal of Chinese Political Science8.200
4 European Security7.755
5 Agriculture and Human Values6.584
6 Journal of Responsible Innovation6.536
7 ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage6.108
8 Public Understanding of Science6.064
9 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.982
10 Social Studies of Science5.593
11 Science & Education5.511
12 Games and Culture4.672
13 Theory Culture & Society4.310
14 Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts4.252
15 Social Epistemology4.246
16 Minerva4.157
17 Journal of Consumer Culture3.991
18 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science3.946
19 International Journal of Cultural Studies3.916
20 Cultural Studies of Science Education3.828
21 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies3.626
22 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.572
23 Biology & Philosophy3.545
24 Pacific Review3.542
25 International Journal of Heritage Studies3.522
26 Nanoethics3.288
27 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs3.253
28 East European Politics3.201
29 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.120
30 Journal of Contemporary European Studies3.082
31 Museum Management and Curatorship3.058
32 Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry2.922
33 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.801
34 International Journal of Cultural Policy2.791
35 Engineering Studies2.776
36 Critical Asian Studies2.766
37 Middle East Critique2.750
38 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.725
39 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.684
40 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies2.630
41 Eurasian Geography and Economics2.617
42 European Journal of Cultural Studies2.600
43 Asian Survey2.580
44 Daedalus2.525
45 Science As Culture2.484
46 Historic Environment-Policy & Practice2.482
47 Empirical Studies of the Arts2.419
48 Biosemiotics2.395
49 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science2.360
50 Journal of Cultural Economy2.353
51 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies2.310
52 Turkish Studies2.292
53 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.287
54 African Affairs2.286
55 Social Semiotics2.186
56 Latin American Politics and Society2.167
57 Africa Spectrum2.092
58 Foundations of Science2.081
59 Journal of Eastern African Studies2.036
60 New Genetics and Society1.962
61 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.961
62 Philosophy of Science1.904
63 Cultural Trends1.889
64 Digital Scholarship in the Humanities1.879
65 Memory Studies1.872
66 Medical Humanities1.843
67 China Quarterly1.831
68 Mediterranean Politics1.809
69 Modern China1.792
70 Review of African Political Economy1.786
71 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.747
72 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.711
73 Central Asian Survey1.689
- Senses & Society1.689
75 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.687
76 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.684
77 Foundations of Chemistry1.667
78 Signs and Society1.653
79 Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies1.635
80 East European Politics and Societies1.633
81 South Atlantic Quarterly1.618
82 Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies1.615
83 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies1.600
84 Space and Culture1.574
85 Journal of African Media Studies1.456
86 Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies1.432
87 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.420
88 Osiris1.407
89 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.366
90 Journal of Palestine Studies1.356
91 Semiotica1.335
92 Journal of Modern African Studies1.328
93 China Information1.280
94 Nexus Network Journal1.260
95 Journal of African Cultural Studies1.217
96 Celebrity Studies1.171
97 African Studies1.160
98 Middle East Policy1.158
99 History of the Human Sciences1.150
100 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.148
101 Bilig1.125
102 Cultural Studies1.121
103 India Review1.120
104 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.108
105 Korea Observer1.101
106 European Review1.098
107 Journal of Material Culture1.077
108 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies1.071
109 Curator-The Museum Journal1.070
110 Positions-Asia Critique1.051
111 Public Culture1.047
112 Journal of Southern African Studies1.046
113 Science and Technology Studies1.045
114 Contemporary South Asia1.036
115 IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies1.020
116 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.017
117 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science1.015
118 Asian Studies Review0.985
119 Modern Asian Studies0.984
120 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.983
121 Journal of Scholarly Publishing0.977
122 Trames-Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences0.976
123 Postcolonial Studies0.944
124 Visual Studies0.943
125 Latin American Perspectives0.918
126 Europe-Asia Studies0.917
127 Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture0.915
128 East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.905
129 Parallax0.892
130 Grey Room0.887
131 Journal of Visual Culture0.886
132 Social Science Japan Journal0.871
133 South East Asia Research0.865
134 Journal of Arts Management Law and Society0.863
135 Indonesia and the Malay World0.859
136 Israel Affairs0.856
137 Journal of the History of Biology0.847
138 Pacific Focus0.845
139 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.823
140 Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies0.818
141 Endeavour0.811
142 Medical History0.802
143 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies0.798
144 History of Science0.797
145 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences0.774
146 History and Philosophy of Logic0.761
147 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.759
148 French Cultural Studies0.754
149 Centaurus0.751
150 Journal of Baltic Studies0.747
151 Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies0.745
152 Africa0.724
- China Perspectives0.724
154 NTM0.708
155 Journal of Canadian Studies-Revue d'Etudes Canadiennes0.692
156 Cryptologia0.676
157 Configurations0.675
158 China Journal0.667
- Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie/Yearbook of Music Psychology0.667
160 Journal of Latin American Studies0.658
161 Disparidades-Revista de Antropologia0.650
162 Journal for the History of Astronomy0.630
163 Theology and Science0.625
164 Textile-Cloth and Culture0.603
165 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies0.600
166 South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies0.583
167 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte0.574
168 Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies0.573
169 Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture0.560
170 Critical Inquiry0.558
171 Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies0.555
172 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.549
173 Journal of European Studies0.548
174 Text and Performance Quarterly0.542
175 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.529
176 Isis0.528
177 Representations0.525
178 CR-The New Centennial Review0.522
179 Journal of the American Institute for Conservation0.520
180 Angelaki-Journal of the Theoretical Humanities0.515
181 Middle Eastern Studies0.512
182 Journal of Aesthetic Education0.510
183 Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association0.509
184 Historical Records of Australian Science0.505
185 Asian Philosophy0.504
186 European Journal of English Studies0.492
187 Muslim World0.486
188 Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy0.485
189 American Imago0.479
190 Annals of Science0.477
191 International Journal of Asian Studies0.469
192 Oriens0.455
193 Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.454
194 Journal of Medical Biography0.451
195 International Journal of Middle East Studies0.450
196 Ambix0.442
197 African and Asian Studies0.427
198 Journal of Near Eastern Studies0.411
199 Journal of American Folklore0.410
200 Small Axe0.394
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
2.5833361148834