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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Journal of Cultural Heritage24
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences24
3 Journal of Peasant Studies23
4 Agriculture and Human Values22
5 Journal of Archaeological Science21
- Science and Engineering Ethics21
7 Journal of Human Evolution20
8 Social Networks18
9 Science & Education17
- Public Understanding of Science17
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science17
12 Transcultural Psychiatry16
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs16
- Latin American Research Review16
- Medicine Health Care and Philosophy16
- European Security16
17 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science15
- China Quarterly15
- Journal of Chinese Political Science15
- American Anthropologist15
- American Journal of Human Biology15
- Synthese15
- Annual Review of Anthropology15
24 Antiquity14
- Evolutionary Anthropology14
- Journal of Asian and African Studies14
- Social Studies of Science14
- Current Anthropology14
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology14
30 Post-Soviet Affairs13
- Journal of Contemporary China13
- Minerva13
33 Human Ecology12
- American Ethnologist12
- Memory Studies12
- Economic Development and Cultural Change12
- Philosophy of Science12
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory12
39 Journal of Contemporary Asia11
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies11
- Cultural Anthropology11
- Europe-Asia Studies11
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science11
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences11
- Journal of Economic History11
- Nations and Nationalism11
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology11
- Economic History Review11
- Biology & Philosophy11
50 Explorations in Economic History10
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology10
- Medical Anthropology10
- Annals of Human Biology10
- Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity10
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry10
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics10
- Archaeometry10
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective10
- Journal of Ethnobiology10
- Science As Culture10
- Social Epistemology10
- African Affairs10
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint10
- Central Asian Survey10
- Turkish Studies10
- African Archaeological Review10
- American Antiquity10
68 Journal of Archaeological Research9
- Journal of Field Archaeology9
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute9
- Latin American Politics and Society9
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly9
- Race & Class9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology9
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs9
- Africa Spectrum9
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly9
- Pacific Review9
- Business History9
- China Journal9
- Social Anthropology9
- Eurasian Geography and Economics9
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science9
- Foundations of Science9
- Geoarchaeology-An International Journal9
- Archaeological Prospection9
88 Journal of Asian Public Policy8
- Journal of Philosophy of Education8
- China Information8
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences8
- Environmental Archaeology8
- American Historical Review8
- Biosemiotics8
- Field Methods8
- Planning Perspectives8
- Journal of Modern African Studies8
- Nexus Network Journal8
- Anthropology & Medicine8
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies8
- Review of African Political Economy8
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies8
- Past & Present8
- European Journal of Archaeology8
105 Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology7
- Postcolonial Studies7
- Nanoethics7
- Mediterranean Politics7
- New Genetics and Society7
- Bulletin of Latin American Research7
- European Review of Economic History7
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal7
- Isis7
- Archaeological Dialogues7
- Asian Studies Review7
- Australian Archaeology7
- History and Theory7
- History of Political Economy7
- Intelligence and National Security7
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies7
- Journal of Modern Italian Studies7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
- Latin American Perspectives7
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- Middle East Critique7
- Anthropological Theory7
- Levant7
- Lithic Technology7
- Asian Survey7
- World Archaeology7
- Critique of Anthropology7
- Cultural Studies7
- Enterprise & Society7
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology7
135 International Journal of Middle East Studies6
- Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Eastern African Studies6
- Journal of Palestine Studies6
- Journal of the American Oriental Society6
- Africa6
- African Studies Review6
- Labor History6
- Middle East Policy6
- Anthropologie6
- Trabajos de Prehistoria6
- Oceania6
- Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology6
- Business History Review6
- Ethnography6
- Ethos6
- Ancient Mesoamerica6
- Foundations of Chemistry6
- Journal of Global History6
- Rethinking History6
- Journal of Historical Geography6
- Journal of Southern African Studies6
- South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies6
- Management & Organizational History6
- Latin American Antiquity6
- Modern China6
- Pacific Affairs6
- Public Culture6
- Engineering Studies6
- East European Politics and Societies6
- Ethnos6
- Osiris6
- International Journal of the History of Sport6
- Comparative Studies in Society and History6
- Contemporary South Asia6
- American Journal of Archaeology6
- Archaeology in Oceania6
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa6
- Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte6
- History of the Human Sciences6
175 History of Psychiatry5
- History of the Family5
- Human Organization5
- Journal of Anthropological Research5
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology5
- Journal of Material Culture5
- Journal of Historical Sociology5
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology5
- Slavery & Abolition5
- Social Science History5
- Journal of the History of Biology5
- South East Asia Research5
- Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University5
- Anthropological Forum5
- Modern Asian Studies5
- Modern Intellectual History5
- Social Analysis5
- Social Science Japan Journal5
- Norwegian Archaeological Review5
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought5
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies5
- International Journal of Asian Studies5
- Itinerario-International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction5
- Contemporary European History5
- Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy5
- Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress5
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