New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

History & Archaeology

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 Latin American Research Review7.657
3 Journal of Peasant Studies7.317
4 European Security6.881
5 Journal of Archaeological Research6.674
6 Journal of Chinese Political Science6.510
7 Social Networks6.028
8 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.921
9 Post-Soviet Affairs5.816
10 Public Understanding of Science5.650
11 Journal of Responsible Innovation5.633
12 Annual Review of Anthropology5.591
13 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.549
14 Agriculture and Human Values5.405
15 Transcultural Psychiatry5.306
16 Journal of Human Evolution5.276
17 Social Studies of Science5.128
18 Science & Education4.869
19 Synthese4.551
20 Journal of Contemporary China4.283
21 East European Politics4.236
22 Minerva4.115
23 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.026
24 Journal of Archaeological Science3.986
25 Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs3.965
26 Science As Culture3.768
27 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory3.735
28 Biology & Philosophy3.655
29 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology3.598
30 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.466
31 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.452
32 Social Epistemology3.367
33 Pacific Review3.340
34 Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective3.326
35 Journal of Economic History3.244
36 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences3.221
37 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science3.184
38 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies3.168
39 Evolutionary Anthropology3.109
40 Field Methods3.018
41 Engineering Studies2.846
42 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.845
43 Nanoethics2.827
44 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.814
45 Human Ecology2.720
46 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.717
47 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.623
48 Cultural Anthropology2.612
49 Explorations in Economic History2.605
50 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.592
51 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.567
52 Annals of Human Biology2.557
53 African Affairs2.551
54 Advances in Archaeological Practice2.517
55 World Archaeology2.508
56 Biosemiotics2.488
57 Journal of Ethnobiology2.484
58 Archaeological Prospection2.367
59 Journal of Social Archaeology2.362
60 Foundations of Chemistry2.351
61 American Journal of Human Biology2.347
62 Nations and Nationalism2.323
63 Race & Class2.319
64 Critique of Anthropology2.310
65 Cambridge Archaeological Journal2.293
66 Critical Asian Studies2.292
67 Journal of Historical Sociology2.273
68 Turkish Studies2.258
69 Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology2.230
- Medical Anthropology2.230
71 Middle East Critique2.219
72 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry2.218
73 Management & Organizational History2.210
74 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies2.203
75 Philosophy of Science2.185
76 Archaeological Dialogues2.172
77 Asian Survey2.168
78 Anthropological Theory2.145
79 Journal of Field Archaeology2.140
80 Central Asian Survey2.096
81 Eurasian Geography and Economics2.082
82 Geoarchaeology-An International Journal2.054
83 Pacific Affairs2.052
84 Australian Economic History Review2.048
85 Ethos2.036
86 Anthropology & Medicine2.026
87 Signs and Society2.022
88 European Review of Economic History2.020
89 Review of African Political Economy2.005
90 American Anthropologist2.004
91 Historical Methods2.000
92 Journal of Eastern African Studies1.960
93 Foundations of Science1.954
94 Antiquity1.953
95 Archaeometry1.950
96 Lithic Technology1.947
97 Postcolonial Studies1.897
98 Ancient Mesoamerica1.884
99 Social Anthropology1.883
100 New Genetics and Society1.825
101 Current Anthropology1.807
102 Africa Spectrum1.776
103 Environmental Archaeology1.772
104 China Quarterly1.769
105 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.726
106 Open Archaeology1.724
107 Latin American Politics and Society1.714
108 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.709
109 Modern China1.633
110 Levant1.627
111 Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University1.611
112 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.605
113 African Archaeological Review1.600
114 Indonesia and the Malay World1.597
115 Cliometrica1.570
116 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.569
117 Memory Studies1.568
118 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology1.554
119 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies1.542
120 Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology1.500
121 Archaeological Research in Asia1.494
122 Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology1.491
123 Journal of Philosophy of Education1.485
124 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology1.477
125 Cultural Studies1.469
126 American Ethnologist1.467
127 Mediterranean Politics1.460
128 East European Politics and Societies1.449
129 Ethnography1.445
130 Economic Anthropology1.440
131 History and Technology1.432
132 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.405
133 Economic History Review1.394
134 Archaeology in Oceania1.389
135 Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa1.384
136 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.371
137 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.366
138 History of the Family1.362
139 Journal of Material Culture1.351
140 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.332
141 Nexus Network Journal1.330
142 Studies in Conservation1.313
- Comparative Studies in Society and History1.313
144 Human Organization1.310
145 Medical Anthropology Quarterly1.309
146 Business History1.289
147 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.287
148 Ethnos1.281
149 Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress1.275
150 Public Culture1.248
151 African Studies1.234
152 European Journal of Archaeology1.165
153 Anthropologie1.161
154 Journal of Modern African Studies1.156
- Past & Present1.156
156 American Antiquity1.116
157 History and Theory1.115
- Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies1.115
159 Latin American Antiquity1.114
160 Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports1.102
161 Journal of Global History1.099
162 History and Anthropology1.095
- Planning Perspectives1.095
164 History of Science1.088
165 History of Psychiatry1.082
166 Middle East Policy1.081
167 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.076
168 Journal of Maritime Archaeology1.073
169 China Information1.064
170 Social Science Japan Journal1.056
171 India Review1.050
172 History of the Human Sciences1.048
173 Journal of Palestine Studies1.045
174 Anthropologischer Anzeiger1.043
175 Osiris1.039
176 Labor History1.033
177 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.031
178 Science and Technology Studies1.017
179 Bilig1.008
180 International Journal of Historical Archaeology1.006
181 Scandinavian Journal of History1.000
182 History of Political Economy0.996
183 Anthropological Forum0.991
184 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.989
185 Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites0.981
186 Intelligence and National Security0.975
187 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte0.971
188 Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy0.966
189 Endeavour0.962
190 Estudios Atacamenos0.955
- Journal of Historical Geography0.955
192 Europe-Asia Studies0.951
193 Rethinking History0.948
- Social Science History0.948
195 Journal of Southern African Studies0.946
196 China Perspectives0.945
197 History of Psychology0.941
198 Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology0.924
199 Centaurus0.915
200 Contemporary South Asia0.895
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