New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Journal of Cultural Heritage29
2 Agriculture and Human Values26
3 Journal of Peasant Studies25
4 Science & Education21
- Journal of Human Evolution21
6 Public Understanding of Science20
7 Journal of Archaeological Science19
8 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy18
- China Quarterly18
10 Social Networks17
- European Security17
- Journal of Responsible Innovation17
13 Science and Engineering Ethics16
- Journal of Chinese Political Science16
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences16
16 American Journal of Human Biology15
- Annual Review of Anthropology15
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science15
- Social Epistemology15
- Social Studies of Science15
- Antiquity15
22 American Anthropologist14
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs14
- Journal of Asian and African Studies14
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies14
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science14
- Minerva14
- Economic Development and Cultural Change14
- Journal of Economic History14
30 Current Anthropology13
- Human Ecology13
- American Ethnologist13
- Nations and Nationalism13
- Pacific Review13
- Transcultural Psychiatry13
- Journal of Contemporary Asia13
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology13
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science13
39 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies12
- Evolutionary Anthropology12
- Journal of Archaeological Research12
- Middle East Critique12
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory12
- Memory Studies12
45 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity11
- Turkish Studies11
- East European Politics11
- Eurasian Geography and Economics11
- Philosophy of Science11
- Latin American Politics and Society11
- Annals of Human Biology11
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint11
- Explorations in Economic History11
54 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies10
- Journal of Philosophy of Education10
- Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports10
- Geoarchaeology-An International Journal10
- Archaeological Prospection10
- Archaeometry10
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal10
- Advances in Archaeological Practice10
- Economic History Review10
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute10
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly10
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies10
- Race & Class10
- Central Asian Survey10
- Europe-Asia Studies10
- Science As Culture10
- Biology & Philosophy10
71 Journal of Field Archaeology9
- Asian Studies Review9
- Asian Survey9
- Business History9
- China Journal9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry9
- Journal of Asian Public Policy9
- Journal of Ethnobiology9
- Journal of Historical Geography9
- Journal of Modern African Studies9
82 Journal of Southern African Studies8
- African Affairs8
- Latin American Perspectives8
- Medical Anthropology8
- Mediterranean Politics8
- Anthropological Theory8
- Critique of Anthropology8
- European Review8
- Intelligence and National Security8
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies8
- Journal of Eastern African Studies8
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences8
- Planning Perspectives8
- Lithic Technology8
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics8
- Biosemiotics8
- European Journal of Archaeology8
- Cultural Anthropology8
- East European Politics and Societies8
- Ethos8
- European Review of Economic History8
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs8
- Engineering Studies8
- Nanoethics8
- Positions-Asia Critique8
- Open Archaeology8
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa8
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences8
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology8
- Isis8
- Contemporary South Asia8
- African Archaeological Review8
- Environmental Archaeology8
115 Africa Spectrum7
- Middle East Policy7
- Modern Asian Studies7
- Review of African Political Economy7
- China Information7
- Social Anthropology7
- Economic Anthropology7
- Ethnos7
- Field Methods7
- IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies7
- Israel Affairs7
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology7
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology7
- Journal of Palestine Studies7
- Nexus Network Journal7
- Journal of Maritime Archaeology7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
- Levant7
- World Archaeology7
- Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress7
- American Antiquity7
- Foundations of Science7
- Africa7
- African Studies Review7
- Management & Organizational History7
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly7
- Modern China7
- Pacific Affairs7
- Signs and Society7
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory7
- History of Political Economy7
- Human Organization7
- Journal of Latin American Studies7
- Labor History7
- Archaeological Research in Asia7
- Archaeology in Oceania7
- Historical Methods7
- History and Theory7
- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies7
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies7
- Comparative Studies in Society and History7
- Foundations of Chemistry7
158 Anthropology & Medicine6
- Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology6
- Business History Review6
- China Perspectives6
- Contemporary Southeast Asia6
- Cultural Studies6
- Enterprise & Society6
- History of Education6
- Past & Present6
- Postcolonial Studies6
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology6
- Social Science History6
- Journal of the History of Biology6
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences6
- South East Asia Research6
- Journal of Urban History6
- Latin American Antiquity6
- Australian Archaeology6
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology6
- Contemporary European History6
- Environmental History6
- American Journal of Archaeology6
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine6
- Anthropologie6
- PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review6
- Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies6
- Ethnography6
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology6
- Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History6
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought6
- Studies in Conservation6
- Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University6
- Theology and Science6
- Medical History6
- Womens History Review6
- Historical Archaeology6
- History and Anthropology6
- International Journal of Asian Studies6
- Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies6
- Cliometrica6
- American Historical Review6
- Ancient Mesoamerica6
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