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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Journal of Cultural Heritage28
2 Journal of Peasant Studies25
3 Agriculture and Human Values24
4 Science & Education21
- Journal of Human Evolution21
6 Journal of Archaeological Science19
- Public Understanding of Science19
8 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy18
- Science and Engineering Ethics18
- Social Networks18
11 Journal of Chinese Political Science17
- Latin American Research Review17
13 Transcultural Psychiatry16
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science16
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences16
16 Antiquity15
- China Quarterly15
- Journal of Responsible Innovation15
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science15
- Social Studies of Science15
- European Security15
22 Post-Soviet Affairs14
- Journal of Contemporary China14
- Philosophy of Science14
- American Anthropologist14
- American Journal of Human Biology14
- Annual Review of Anthropology14
- Social Epistemology14
- Synthese14
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs14
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies14
32 Economic Development and Cultural Change13
- Journal of Asian and African Studies13
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science13
- Journal of Economic History13
- Minerva13
37 Nations and Nationalism12
- Pacific Review12
- Current Anthropology12
- Evolutionary Anthropology12
- Human Ecology12
- Memory Studies12
- Journal of Contemporary Asia12
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology12
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory12
46 Biology & Philosophy11
- Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity11
- Explorations in Economic History11
- Archaeometry11
- East European Politics11
- Turkish Studies11
- Eurasian Geography and Economics11
- American Ethnologist11
54 Economic History Review10
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies10
- Central Asian Survey10
- China Journal10
- Cultural Anthropology10
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry10
- Europe-Asia Studies10
- Journal of Archaeological Research10
- African Affairs10
- Latin American Politics and Society10
- American Antiquity10
- Review of African Political Economy10
- Science As Culture10
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies10
- Field Methods10
- Annals of Human Biology10
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly10
- Middle East Critique10
72 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology9
- Geoarchaeology-An International Journal9
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences9
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal9
- Business History9
- Race & Class9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs9
- Journal of Ethnobiology9
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences9
- Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports9
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute9
- Planning Perspectives9
- Postcolonial Studies9
- Medical Anthropology9
- Journal of Field Archaeology9
- Isis9
- Advances in Archaeological Practice9
- Archaeological Prospection9
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint9
- Social Anthropology9
- Journal of Asian Public Policy9
- Journal of Philosophy of Education9
95 African Archaeological Review8
- American Historical Review8
- European Journal of Archaeology8
- Foundations of Science8
- Ethos8
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology8
- History of Political Economy8
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective8
- Journal of Historical Geography8
- Journal of Modern African Studies8
- Contemporary South Asia8
- Asian Studies Review8
- Biosemiotics8
- China Perspectives8
- Critique of Anthropology8
- Cultural Studies8
- Engineering Studies8
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology8
113 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies7
- Ancient Mesoamerica7
- Archaeological Dialogues7
- Archaeological Research in Asia7
- Archaeology in Oceania7
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa7
- History and Theory7
- Signs and Society7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
- Social Science Japan Journal7
- East European Politics and Societies7
- Ethnography7
- European Review of Economic History7
- Latin American Antiquity7
- Lithic Technology7
- Intelligence and National Security7
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies7
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science7
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics7
- Nexus Network Journal7
- Africa Spectrum7
- Mediterranean Politics7
- Middle East Policy7
- Comparative Studies in Society and History7
- Environmental Archaeology7
- American Journal of Archaeology7
- Foundations of Chemistry7
- Modern China7
- Economic Anthropology7
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- Studies in Conservation7
- Human Organization7
- World Archaeology7
- Open Archaeology7
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology7
- Nanoethics7
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine7
- Latin American Perspectives7
- Anthropologie7
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly7
- Asian Survey7
154 International Journal of Historical Archaeology6
- Historical Methods6
- Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte6
- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies6
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing6
- Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies6
- Journal of Maritime Archaeology6
- Journal of the History of Biology6
- Journal of Urban History6
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought6
- Levant6
- Israel Affairs6
- Journal of Latin American Studies6
- Past & Present6
- Anthropological Theory6
- Anthropology & Medicine6
- Modern Asian Studies6
- Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress6
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies6
- Centaurus6
- Rethinking History6
- Pacific Affairs6
- Business History Review6
- PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review6
- China Information6
- Public Culture6
- Contemporary Southeast Asia6
- Enterprise & Society6
- Ethnos6
- European Review6
- Labor History6
- International Journal of Middle East Studies6
- Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Eastern African Studies6
- Journal of Historical Sociology6
- Journal of Palestine Studies6
- Africa6
- Journal of Southern African Studies6
- African Studies Review6
- Management & Organizational History6
- Praehistorische Zeitschrift6
- Journal of Global History6
196 International Journal of the History of Sport5
- Contemporary European History5
- Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy5
- East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal5
- Environmental History5
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