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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.479
2 Journal of Peasant Studies6.579
3 Journal of Archaeological Research6.487
4 Latin American Research Review6.071
5 European Security5.792
6 Annual Review of Anthropology5.758
7 Social Networks5.756
8 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.647
9 Journal of Human Evolution5.584
10 Social Studies of Science5.344
11 Journal of Chinese Political Science5.314
12 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.249
13 Post-Soviet Affairs4.992
14 Public Understanding of Science4.886
15 Transcultural Psychiatry4.881
16 Agriculture and Human Values4.776
17 Journal of Responsible Innovation4.676
18 Journal of Archaeological Science4.581
19 American Journal of Physical Anthropology4.486
20 Synthese4.300
21 Science & Education4.295
22 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.234
23 Minerva4.156
24 Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs4.150
25 Evolutionary Anthropology3.933
26 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences3.898
27 Journal of Contemporary China3.852
28 Science As Culture3.846
29 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology3.810
30 Cultural Anthropology3.745
31 Biology & Philosophy3.607
32 Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective3.604
33 East European Politics3.602
34 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory3.582
35 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.472
36 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science3.271
37 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.225
38 Pacific Review3.065
39 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.955
40 Journal of Economic History2.935
41 Field Methods2.894
42 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.759
43 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies2.755
44 Nanoethics2.721
45 Human Ecology2.624
46 Engineering Studies2.614
47 Annals of Human Biology2.538
48 Journal of Ethnobiology2.496
49 Social Epistemology2.486
50 Advances in Archaeological Practice2.444
51 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.433
52 Current Anthropology2.386
53 Explorations in Economic History2.383
54 Journal of Social Archaeology2.375
55 Biosemiotics2.315
56 World Archaeology2.250
57 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.247
58 Lithic Technology2.238
59 African Affairs2.234
60 American Journal of Human Biology2.227
61 Critique of Anthropology2.198
62 Central Asian Survey2.175
63 European Review of Economic History2.173
64 Nations and Nationalism2.171
65 Journal of Field Archaeology2.158
66 New Genetics and Society2.147
67 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology2.129
68 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.126
69 Historical Methods2.123
70 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.118
71 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry2.115
72 Medical Anthropology2.083
73 Environmental Archaeology2.066
74 Archaeological Prospection2.045
75 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences2.038
76 Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology2.036
77 Philosophy of Science2.019
78 Turkish Studies2.000
79 Race & Class1.986
80 Journal of Eastern African Studies1.982
81 Critical Asian Studies1.943
82 Management & Organizational History1.928
83 Foundations of Chemistry1.922
84 Africa Spectrum1.881
85 Archaeometry1.880
86 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies1.877
87 Antiquity1.857
88 Anthropology & Medicine1.843
89 Geoarchaeology-An International Journal1.830
90 Archaeological Dialogues1.820
91 American Anthropologist1.816
92 Eurasian Geography and Economics1.803
93 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.781
94 Asian Survey1.766
95 Anthropological Theory1.756
96 Cambridge Archaeological Journal1.754
97 Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology1.702
98 Cliometrica1.700
99 Pacific Affairs1.697
100 Foundations of Science1.691
101 Memory Studies1.684
102 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology1.683
103 Review of African Political Economy1.675
104 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.667
105 China Quarterly1.658
- Archaeological Research in Asia1.658
107 Signs and Society1.638
108 Levant1.610
109 Latin American Politics and Society1.580
110 Indonesia and the Malay World1.567
111 Ancient Mesoamerica1.565
112 Ethos1.525
113 American Ethnologist1.522
114 Postcolonial Studies1.492
115 African Archaeological Review1.465
116 Middle East Critique1.461
117 History and Technology1.459
118 Ethnography1.456
119 Modern China1.432
120 Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology1.419
121 Australian Economic History Review1.400
122 Medical Anthropology Quarterly1.395
123 Journal of Historical Sociology1.394
124 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies1.389
125 Open Archaeology1.387
126 Economic History Review1.385
127 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.379
128 Past & Present1.364
129 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.363
130 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.358
131 Social Anthropology1.353
132 Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University1.347
133 Journal of Material Culture1.314
134 Economic Anthropology1.313
135 Journal of Modern African Studies1.303
136 China Information1.221
- East European Politics and Societies1.221
138 History of the Family1.215
139 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.206
140 Anthropological Forum1.202
141 Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa1.191
142 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.179
143 Journal of Philosophy of Education1.178
144 Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy1.175
145 Mediterranean Politics1.174
146 European Journal of Archaeology1.170
147 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.163
148 Public Culture1.162
149 Ethnos1.160
150 Studies in Conservation1.159
151 Archaeofauna1.152
152 Cultural Studies1.150
- African Studies1.150
154 Archaeology in Oceania1.148
155 Comparative Studies in Society and History1.133
156 Journal of Global History1.132
157 History of Psychiatry1.126
158 Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress1.117
159 Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports1.115
160 International Journal of Historical Archaeology1.096
161 Nexus Network Journal1.089
162 American Antiquity1.084
163 Estudios Atacamenos1.082
164 Latin American Antiquity1.065
165 Business History1.062
166 Centaurus1.057
167 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.052
168 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.048
169 Social Analysis1.011
170 India Review0.972
171 Europe-Asia Studies0.970
172 Anthropologie0.955
173 Trabajos de Prehistoria0.950
174 Science and Technology Studies0.947
175 Journal of Maritime Archaeology0.945
176 History and Theory0.944
177 History of Political Economy0.939
178 Journal of Southern African Studies0.933
- Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture0.933
180 Anthropologischer Anzeiger0.929
181 Endeavour0.915
182 Journal of the History of Biology0.911
183 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies0.889
184 Human Organization0.884
185 Middle East Policy0.880
186 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.877
187 Anthropology & Education Quarterly0.876
188 Osiris0.870
189 History and Anthropology0.868
190 History of Psychology0.860
191 History of Science0.853
192 Planning Perspectives0.849
193 China Perspectives0.843
194 Journal of Historical Geography0.839
195 Journal of Modern Italian Studies0.835
196 History of the Human Sciences0.833
197 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.831
198 Scandinavian Journal of History0.830
199 Bilig0.829
200 Social Science Japan Journal0.826
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