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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Journal of Cultural Heritage30
2 Journal of Peasant Studies27
3 Agriculture and Human Values25
4 Science & Education22
5 Journal of Human Evolution20
- Public Understanding of Science20
7 Journal of Archaeological Science19
8 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy18
- Journal of Chinese Political Science18
10 Science and Engineering Ethics17
- European Security17
- Journal of Responsible Innovation17
- China Quarterly17
- Social Networks17
15 Annual Review of Anthropology16
- Social Studies of Science16
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences16
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science16
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science16
20 American Journal of Human Biology15
- Post-Soviet Affairs15
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs15
- Social Epistemology15
- Antiquity15
25 Journal of Contemporary European Studies14
- American Anthropologist14
- Journal of Contemporary China14
28 Journal of Contemporary Asia13
- Current Anthropology13
- Journal of Asian and African Studies13
- Minerva13
- Turkish Studies13
- Economic Development and Cultural Change13
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology13
- Journal of Economic History13
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science13
37 Transcultural Psychiatry12
- Evolutionary Anthropology12
- Human Ecology12
- Journal of Archaeological Research12
- American Ethnologist12
- Middle East Critique12
- Nations and Nationalism12
- Pacific Review12
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies12
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory12
- Memory Studies12
48 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity11
- East European Politics11
- Eurasian Geography and Economics11
- Philosophy of Science11
- Annals of Human Biology11
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies11
54 Race & Class10
- Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports10
- Science As Culture10
- Advances in Archaeological Practice10
- Geoarchaeology-An International Journal10
- Archaeological Prospection10
- Archaeometry10
- Latin American Politics and Society10
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly10
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint10
- Central Asian Survey10
- Social Anthropology10
- Cultural Anthropology10
- Europe-Asia Studies10
- Explorations in Economic History10
- Biology & Philosophy10
70 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences9
- Journal of Philosophy of Education9
- African Affairs9
- Journal of Field Archaeology9
- Isis9
- European Journal of Archaeology9
- Biosemiotics9
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal9
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies9
- Journal of Ethnobiology9
- Journal of Historical Geography9
- Journal of Modern African Studies9
- Business History9
- China Journal9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology9
- American Historical Review9
87 Journal of Asian Public Policy8
- Medical Anthropology8
- Mediterranean Politics8
- Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies8
- Planning Perspectives8
- Lithic Technology8
- Economic History Review8
- American Antiquity8
- Asian Studies Review8
- Intelligence and National Security8
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs8
- Engineering Studies8
- Nanoethics8
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute8
- Asian Survey8
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry8
- East European Politics and Societies8
- Ethos8
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective8
- Positions-Asia Critique8
- Contemporary South Asia8
- Environmental Archaeology8
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa8
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences8
111 Journal of Eastern African Studies7
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology7
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology7
- Nexus Network Journal7
- Journal of Southern African Studies7
- Africa Spectrum7
- Latin American Perspectives7
- Anthropological Theory7
- Middle East Policy7
- Modern Asian Studies7
- Signs and Society7
- Critique of Anthropology7
- Economic Anthropology7
- European Review7
- Field Methods7
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics7
- Journal of Maritime Archaeology7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
- Journal of the History of Biology7
- Latin American Antiquity7
- Levant7
- Foundations of Science7
- Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress7
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies7
- Journal of Latin American Studies7
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine7
- Africa7
- African Studies Review7
- Management & Organizational History7
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly7
- Pacific Affairs7
- Review of African Political Economy7
- Ethnography7
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- European Review of Economic History7
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology7
- History of Political Economy7
- World Archaeology7
- Open Archaeology7
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- Labor History7
- Comparative Studies in Society and History7
- African Archaeological Review7
- Foundations of Chemistry7
- Archaeological Research in Asia7
- Archaeology in Oceania7
- History and Theory7
158 Human Organization6
- International Journal of Middle East Studies6
- Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Palestine Studies6
- Anthropology & Medicine6
- Business History Review6
- China Information6
- China Perspectives6
- Contemporary Southeast Asia6
- Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies6
- Cultural Studies6
- Social Science Japan Journal6
- Ethnos6
- History of Education6
- History of the Family6
- Womens History Review6
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science6
- Postcolonial Studies6
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology6
- Studies in Conservation6
- Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University6
- Theology and Science6
- Trabajos de Prehistoria6
- American Journal of Archaeology6
- Australian Archaeology6
- International Journal of Asian Studies6
- IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies6
- Israel Affairs6
- Anthropologie6
- Modern China6
- PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review6
- HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory6
- Social Science History6
- Medical History6
- Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies6
- Cliometrica6
- Ancient Mesoamerica6
- Historical Methods6
- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies6
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing6
- Centaurus6
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology6
200 India Review5
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