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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.016
2 Journal of Archaeological Research7.436
3 Journal of Peasant Studies6.804
4 Latin American Research Review6.740
5 Annual Review of Anthropology6.576
6 European Security6.303
7 Social Networks5.881
8 Journal of Chinese Political Science5.763
9 Social Studies of Science5.503
10 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.432
11 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.289
12 Post-Soviet Affairs5.152
13 Public Understanding of Science5.065
14 Journal of Responsible Innovation5.011
15 Agriculture and Human Values4.930
16 Transcultural Psychiatry4.824
17 Minerva4.521
18 Science & Education4.410
19 Synthese4.198
20 Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs4.137
21 Science As Culture4.104
22 Journal of Archaeological Science4.075
23 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science3.863
24 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences3.772
25 Journal of Contemporary China3.748
26 East European Politics3.743
27 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology3.570
28 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.490
29 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory3.473
30 Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective3.471
31 Biology & Philosophy3.457
32 Journal of Human Evolution3.329
33 Evolutionary Anthropology3.300
34 Pacific Review3.250
35 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.187
36 Asia Pacific Viewpoint3.073
37 Journal of Economic History2.959
38 Nanoethics2.925
39 Social Epistemology2.896
40 Field Methods2.870
41 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.838
42 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies2.739
43 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.660
44 Journal of Ethnobiology2.645
45 Human Ecology2.601
46 Engineering Studies2.589
47 African Affairs2.536
48 Journal of Social Archaeology2.534
49 Cultural Anthropology2.533
50 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.422
51 World Archaeology2.390
52 Biosemiotics2.339
53 Historical Methods2.338
54 Advances in Archaeological Practice2.333
55 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.306
56 Current Anthropology2.303
57 New Genetics and Society2.268
58 American Journal of Human Biology2.252
59 Annals of Human Biology2.241
60 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.231
61 Journal of Field Archaeology2.216
62 Critique of Anthropology2.207
63 Journal of Eastern African Studies2.200
64 Nations and Nationalism2.175
65 Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology2.171
66 Medical Anthropology2.163
- Central Asian Survey2.163
68 Race & Class2.143
69 Turkish Studies2.116
70 Foundations of Chemistry2.100
71 Archaeological Prospection2.099
72 Lithic Technology2.092
73 European Review of Economic History2.090
74 Anthropology & Medicine2.035
75 Management & Organizational History2.029
76 Philosophy of Science2.000
77 Asian Survey1.958
78 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry1.957
79 Critical Asian Studies1.944
80 Archaeometry1.932
81 American Anthropologist1.930
82 Archaeological Dialogues1.924
83 Environmental Archaeology1.922
84 Journal of Historical Sociology1.917
85 Africa Spectrum1.896
86 Cambridge Archaeological Journal1.876
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science1.876
88 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies1.873
89 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.850
90 Ancient Mesoamerica1.848
91 Pacific Affairs1.844
- Geoarchaeology-An International Journal1.844
93 Anthropological Theory1.831
94 Review of African Political Economy1.829
95 Memory Studies1.787
96 Middle East Critique1.774
97 Antiquity1.773
98 Signs and Society1.765
99 Foundations of Science1.754
100 Eurasian Geography and Economics1.732
101 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.695
102 Australian Economic History Review1.655
103 China Quarterly1.654
104 Ethos1.628
105 History and Technology1.613
106 Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University1.612
107 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.589
108 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology1.572
109 Postcolonial Studies1.560
110 Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology1.556
111 Medical Anthropology Quarterly1.534
112 Indonesia and the Malay World1.523
113 Modern China1.510
114 Open Archaeology1.507
115 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.482
116 Cliometrica1.481
117 Levant1.475
118 Archaeological Research in Asia1.466
119 African Archaeological Review1.464
120 Latin American Politics and Society1.457
121 American Ethnologist1.451
122 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.435
123 Journal of Material Culture1.430
124 Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology1.423
125 Past & Present1.419
126 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.397
127 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.368
128 Journal of Philosophy of Education1.357
129 Social Anthropology1.354
- Ethnography1.354
131 Economic Anthropology1.342
132 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology1.335
133 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies1.311
134 Archaeofauna1.304
135 Cultural Studies1.286
136 China Information1.282
137 History of the Family1.265
138 Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa1.263
139 Comparative Studies in Society and History1.242
- Journal of Modern African Studies1.242
141 Anthropological Forum1.239
142 Economic History Review1.237
143 Ethnos1.231
- East European Politics and Societies1.231
145 Mediterranean Politics1.219
146 Explorations in Economic History1.205
147 History of Psychiatry1.203
148 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.191
149 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.190
150 Studies in Conservation1.189
151 African Studies1.186
152 Archaeology in Oceania1.185
153 Journal of Global History1.152
154 American Antiquity1.129
155 Nexus Network Journal1.123
156 Latin American Antiquity1.119
157 Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress1.111
158 Business History1.101
159 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.081
160 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.074
161 European Journal of Archaeology1.055
162 Estudios Atacamenos1.052
163 India Review1.047
164 International Journal of Historical Archaeology1.042
165 Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports1.032
166 Anthropologie1.029
167 Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy1.013
168 History and Theory1.000
169 Journal of Maritime Archaeology0.976
170 Opuscula-Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome0.974
171 Science and Technology Studies0.973
172 Human Organization0.965
173 Trabajos de Prehistoria0.961
174 Planning Perspectives0.957
175 Osiris0.948
176 Centaurus0.944
177 Anthropology & Education Quarterly0.940
- Anthropologischer Anzeiger0.940
179 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies0.938
180 Europe-Asia Studies0.931
181 History and Anthropology0.920
- Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.920
183 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.919
184 China Perspectives0.917
185 History of Psychology0.911
186 Social Science Japan Journal0.908
187 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science0.904
188 History of Political Economy0.899
189 Endeavour0.896
190 Bilig0.891
191 Middle East Policy0.883
192 Rethinking History0.877
193 History of the Human Sciences0.871
194 Scandinavian Journal of History0.868
195 Journal of Southern African Studies0.859
196 Intelligence and National Security0.855
197 Journal of Historical Geography0.845
198 Labor History0.842
199 Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology0.830
200 Public Culture0.822
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