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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Journal of Cultural Heritage27
2 Journal of Peasant Studies26
3 Agriculture and Human Values22
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences22
5 Journal of Archaeological Science19
- Journal of Human Evolution19
7 Social Networks18
- Public Understanding of Science18
- Science and Engineering Ethics18
- Science & Education18
- Medicine Health Care and Philosophy18
12 Latin American Research Review17
13 Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs16
- Transcultural Psychiatry16
- Annual Review of Anthropology16
16 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science15
- China Quarterly15
- Journal of Responsible Innovation15
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science15
20 Antiquity14
- Current Anthropology14
- European Security14
- Social Studies of Science14
- Synthese14
- Memory Studies14
- Economic Development and Cultural Change14
- Journal of Chinese Political Science14
- Journal of Contemporary China14
- American Anthropologist14
- American Journal of Human Biology14
31 Evolutionary Anthropology13
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology13
- Post-Soviet Affairs13
- Journal of Asian and African Studies13
- Philosophy of Science13
36 Minerva12
- Nations and Nationalism12
- Human Ecology12
- Social Epistemology12
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory12
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science12
42 Biology & Philosophy11
- Pacific Review11
- Journal of Contemporary Asia11
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies11
- Journal of Economic History11
- American Antiquity11
- Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity11
49 Economic History Review10
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint10
- East European Politics10
- Turkish Studies10
- Eurasian Geography and Economics10
- American Ethnologist10
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly10
- Science As Culture10
- Archaeometry10
- Central Asian Survey10
- Race & Class10
- Cultural Anthropology10
- Europe-Asia Studies10
- Journal of Ethnobiology10
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences10
- African Affairs10
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute10
- Journal of Archaeological Research10
- Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports10
68 Geoarchaeology-An International Journal9
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences9
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology9
- Review of African Political Economy9
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies9
- Field Methods9
- Journal of Asian Public Policy9
- Journal of Philosophy of Education9
- Annals of Human Biology9
- Middle East Critique9
- Archaeological Prospection9
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies9
- China Journal9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry9
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs9
- Journal of Modern African Studies9
- Latin American Politics and Society9
- Medical Anthropology9
- Journal of Field Archaeology9
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science9
89 Advances in Archaeological Practice8
- American Historical Review8
- European Journal of Archaeology8
- Foundations of Science8
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal8
- Social Anthropology8
- Cultural Studies8
- World Archaeology8
- Nanoethics8
- Asian Studies Review8
- Biosemiotics8
- Isis8
- Business History8
- Explorations in Economic History8
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology8
- History of Political Economy8
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective8
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies8
- Africa Spectrum8
- Postcolonial Studies8
- Past & Present8
- Planning Perspectives8
111 Ancient Mesoamerica7
- Archaeological Dialogues7
- Archaeological Research in Asia7
- History and Theory7
- Asian Survey7
- China Perspectives7
- Critique of Anthropology7
- Economic Anthropology7
- Engineering Studies7
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology7
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology7
- Latin American Perspectives7
- Anthropologie7
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly7
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- Studies in Conservation7
- Open Archaeology7
- African Archaeological Review7
- Environmental Archaeology7
- Comparative Studies in Society and History7
- Contemporary South Asia7
- Anthropology & Medicine7
- Middle East Policy7
- New Genetics and Society7
- East European Politics and Societies7
- Ethnography7
- European Review of Economic History7
- Intelligence and National Security7
- Journal of Historical Geography7
- Nexus Network Journal7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
- Journal of the American Oriental Society7
- Latin American Antiquity7
- Lithic Technology7
145 Archaeology in Oceania6
- Historical Methods6
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa6
- Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte6
- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies6
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing6
- Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies6
- Modern China6
- Pacific Affairs6
- Bulletin of Latin American Research6
- Business History Review6
- PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review6
- China Information6
- Enterprise & Society6
- Ethnos6
- European Review6
- History of Psychiatry6
- Human Organization6
- International Journal of Middle East Studies6
- Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Eastern African Studies6
- Journal of Historical Sociology6
- Journal of Palestine Studies6
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine6
- Africa6
- Journal of Southern African Studies6
- African Studies Review6
- Management & Organizational History6
- Journal of Global History6
- Rethinking History6
- Labor History6
- American Journal of Archaeology6
- Foundations of Chemistry6
- Cliometrica6
- Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology6
- Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies6
- Signs and Society6
- Social Science Japan Journal6
- Ethos6
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought6
- HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory6
- Anthropological Theory6
- Mediterranean Politics6
- Levant6
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics6
190 Environmental History5
- Estudios Atacamenos5
- Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy5
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences5
- Historical Archaeology5
- British Journal for the History of Science5
- History Workshop Journal5
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology5
- International Journal of the History of Sport5
- Contemporary European History5
- Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy5
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
2.2739720344543