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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.658
2 European Security6.000
3 Latin American Research Review5.976
4 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.754
5 Social Studies of Science5.339
6 Journal of Chinese Political Science5.153
7 Post-Soviet Affairs5.016
8 Agriculture and Human Values4.871
9 Synthese4.685
10 ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage4.643
11 Public Understanding of Science4.629
12 Theory Culture & Society4.365
13 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.139
14 Science & Education4.121
15 Journal of Consumer Culture4.098
16 Minerva4.088
17 Daedalus3.870
18 Journal of Contemporary China3.745
19 Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts3.680
20 Science As Culture3.655
21 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.565
22 Cultural Studies of Science Education3.545
23 Biology & Philosophy3.509
24 Historic Environment-Policy & Practice3.336
25 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.310
26 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science3.250
27 Games and Culture3.040
28 Pacific Review3.000
29 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.865
30 Nanoethics2.738
31 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.731
32 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies2.634
33 Journal of Cultural Economy2.599
34 Cultural Trends2.589
35 Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry2.587
36 Journal of African Media Studies2.575
37 International Journal of Heritage Studies2.552
38 Engineering Studies2.518
39 International Journal of Cultural Studies2.477
40 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.463
41 Space and Culture2.448
42 Social Epistemology2.369
43 Museum Management and Curatorship2.366
44 African Affairs2.328
45 Biosemiotics2.311
46 New Genetics and Society2.246
47 International Journal of Cultural Policy2.243
48 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences2.211
49 Central Asian Survey2.184
50 Journal of Eastern African Studies2.179
51 Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies2.153
52 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.147
53 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.138
54 European Journal of Cultural Studies2.113
55 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.074
56 Philosophy of Science2.010
57 Critical Asian Studies1.940
58 Turkish Studies1.927
59 Africa Spectrum1.848
60 Foundations of Chemistry1.823
61 Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power1.787
62 Asian Survey1.771
63 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies1.757
64 Foundations of Science1.740
65 Eurasian Geography and Economics1.736
66 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.715
67 Pacific Affairs1.696
68 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.678
69 Social Semiotics1.675
70 Medical Humanities1.642
71 South Atlantic Quarterly1.634
72 China Quarterly1.588
73 Empirical Studies of the Arts1.577
74 Review of African Political Economy1.574
75 Memory Studies1.572
76 Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies1.512
77 Postcolonial Studies1.504
78 Latin American Politics and Society1.476
79 Indonesia and the Malay World1.471
80 China Information1.390
81 Middle East Critique1.370
82 African Studies1.352
83 Modern China1.344
84 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.311
85 Senses & Society1.278
86 Journal of Material Culture1.267
87 East European Politics and Societies1.266
88 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.257
89 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.239
90 Journal of Modern African Studies1.218
91 Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies1.204
- Mediterranean Politics1.204
93 Nexus Network Journal1.147
94 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.144
95 Celebrity Studies1.143
96 Journal of African Cultural Studies1.129
97 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.108
98 Public Culture1.090
99 Cultural Studies1.063
100 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.038
101 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.037
102 Centaurus1.015
103 Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture1.014
104 Semiotica1.011
105 Europe-Asia Studies0.975
106 History of the Human Sciences0.946
107 Curator-The Museum Journal0.925
108 Journal of Southern African Studies0.915
109 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.914
110 India Review0.913
111 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine0.904
112 Endeavour0.887
113 Journal of the History of Biology0.878
114 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.869
115 Journal of Arts Management Law and Society0.867
116 Journal of Scholarly Publishing0.865
117 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies0.858
118 Middle East Policy0.851
119 Osiris0.844
120 History of Science0.829
121 Journal of the American Institute for Conservation0.827
122 Bilig0.820
123 Social Science Japan Journal0.814
124 Journal of Canadian Studies-Revue d'Etudes Canadiennes0.806
125 Journal of Visual Culture0.791
- Patterns of Prejudice0.791
127 Representations0.780
128 Asian Studies Review0.750
129 Trames-Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences0.747
130 Visual Studies0.735
131 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science0.717
132 European Journal of English Studies0.693
133 Journal of Baltic Studies0.680
134 Latin American Perspectives0.670
135 Positions-Asia Critique0.665
- East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.665
137 Contemporary South Asia0.662
138 Journal of Palestine Studies0.660
139 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.656
140 IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies0.655
141 South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies0.650
142 Modern Asian Studies0.631
143 Pacific Focus0.624
144 Cryptologia0.620
145 European Review0.617
146 Isis0.615
147 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies0.613
148 Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.611
149 Journal for the History of Astronomy0.605
150 Israel Affairs0.599
151 South East Asia Research0.598
152 French Cultural Studies0.590
153 China Journal0.585
154 NTM0.578
155 Textile-Cloth and Culture0.576
156 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies0.554
157 Critical Inquiry0.553
158 Africa0.548
159 History and Philosophy of Logic0.547
160 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies0.542
161 Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies0.536
162 Medical History0.517
163 Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy0.512
164 Ambix0.503
165 Bulletin of Latin American Research0.495
166 Annals of Science0.493
167 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.487
168 Journal of Aesthetic Education0.482
169 Arbor-Ciencia Pensamiento y Cultura0.462
170 Historia Mathematica0.451
171 Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies0.442
172 Korea Observer0.433
173 Historical Records of Australian Science0.427
174 Journal of American Folklore0.416
175 British Journal for the History of Science0.409
176 Early Science and Medicine0.408
177 Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science0.405
178 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.403
- Journal of European Studies0.403
180 Theology and Science0.397
181 International Journal of Middle East Studies0.394
182 Muslim World0.381
183 Journal of Australian Studies0.374
184 Journal of Latin American Studies0.371
185 African Studies Review0.367
- Science in Context0.367
187 Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos0.366
188 Text and Performance Quarterly0.361
189 Archives of Natural History0.357
190 Middle Eastern Studies0.350
191 Journal of Indian Philosophy0.341
192 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing0.334
193 Configurations0.333
194 Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies0.322
- Luso-Brazilian Review0.322
196 Iranian Studies0.308
197 Contemporary Pacific0.304
198 Canadian Review of American Studies0.297
199 Small Axe0.295
200 Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies0.294
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