New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

History & Archaeology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. 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 H4-Index
1 Journal of Cultural Heritage27
2 Journal of Peasant Studies25
3 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences24
4 Agriculture and Human Values22
5 Journal of Human Evolution21
6 Journal of Archaeological Science20
7 Science & Education19
- Science and Engineering Ethics19
9 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy18
- Social Networks18
- Public Understanding of Science18
12 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science17
13 Transcultural Psychiatry16
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs16
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science16
- Latin American Research Review16
- China Quarterly16
18 American Journal of Human Biology15
- Annual Review of Anthropology15
- Social Studies of Science15
- Synthese15
22 Current Anthropology14
- Evolutionary Anthropology14
- Antiquity14
- Journal of Asian and African Studies14
- Journal of Chinese Political Science14
- Journal of Contemporary China14
- Journal of Responsible Innovation14
- American Anthropologist14
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology14
31 Post-Soviet Affairs13
- European Security13
- Economic Development and Cultural Change13
- Journal of Economic History13
- Memory Studies13
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory13
37 Human Ecology12
- Philosophy of Science12
- Minerva12
- Nations and Nationalism12
- Cultural Anthropology12
- Europe-Asia Studies12
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science12
44 Journal of Contemporary Asia11
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies11
- American Ethnologist11
- Economic History Review11
- Biology & Philosophy11
- Central Asian Survey11
- Social Epistemology11
51 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology10
- Annals of Human Biology10
- Medical Anthropology10
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint10
- Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity10
- East European Politics10
- Eurasian Geography and Economics10
- Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports10
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology10
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences10
- Journal of Ethnobiology10
- African Affairs10
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies10
- Pacific Review10
- Turkish Studies10
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective10
- Science As Culture10
- American Antiquity10
- Archaeometry10
70 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute9
- Latin American Politics and Society9
- Race & Class9
- Journal of Field Archaeology9
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science9
- Journal of Archaeological Research9
- Advances in Archaeological Practice9
- Geoarchaeology-An International Journal9
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs9
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences9
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly9
- China Journal9
- Review of African Political Economy9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- Social Anthropology9
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry9
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies9
- Explorations in Economic History9
88 Journal of Asian Public Policy8
- Nanoethics8
- Journal of Philosophy of Education8
- China Perspectives8
- Critique of Anthropology8
- Field Methods8
- Planning Perspectives8
- Lithic Technology8
- Past & Present8
- American Historical Review8
- European Journal of Archaeology8
- Foundations of Science8
- Archaeological Research in Asia8
- Journal of Modern African Studies8
- Africa Spectrum8
- Middle East Critique8
- Business History8
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology8
- History of Political Economy8
- Environmental Archaeology8
- Archaeological Prospection8
- Biosemiotics8
110 World Archaeology7
- Engineering Studies7
- Anthropologie7
- Asian Survey7
- New Genetics and Society7
- China Information7
- Cultural Studies7
- Economic Anthropology7
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology7
- Postcolonial Studies7
- Journal of Modern Italian Studies7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
- Journal of the American Oriental Society7
- Levant7
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics7
- Archaeological Dialogues7
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal7
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies7
- Journal of Historical Geography7
- Nexus Network Journal7
- Latin American Perspectives7
- Anthropological Theory7
- Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies7
- Public Culture7
- East European Politics and Societies7
- European Review of Economic History7
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- Studies in Conservation7
- Comparative Studies in Society and History7
- Isis7
- Contemporary South Asia7
- African Archaeological Review7
- Asian Studies Review7
- Australian Archaeology7
144 Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Eastern African Studies6
- Journal of Palestine Studies6
- Africa6
- Journal of Southern African Studies6
- African Studies Review6
- Mediterranean Politics6
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly6
- Middle East Policy6
- Business History Review6
- Signs and Society6
- Social Science Japan Journal6
- Enterprise & Society6
- Ethnos6
- International Journal of Middle East Studies6
- Journal of the History of Biology6
- Latin American Antiquity6
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology6
- International Journal of the History of Sport6
- Ancient Mesoamerica6
- Archaeology in Oceania6
- Historical Methods6
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa6
- Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte6
- History and Theory6
- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies6
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing6
- Management & Organizational History6
- Anthropology & Medicine6
- Modern China6
- Pacific Affairs6
- Ethnography6
- Ethos6
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought6
- HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory6
- Intelligence and National Security6
- South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies6
- Labor History6
- Open Archaeology6
- Cliometrica6
- American Journal of Archaeology6
- Foundations of Chemistry6
186 Journal of Anthropological Research5
- Journal of Historical Sociology5
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology5
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine5
- Anthropological Forum5
- Modern Asian Studies5
- Bulletin of Latin American Research5
- Contemporary Southeast Asia5
- Social Analysis5
- European Review5
- History of Psychiatry5
- History of the Family5
- Human Organization5
- Politics Religion & Ideology5
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology5
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