History & Archaeology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2024
1	Journal of Chinese Political Science	ca. 5.4
2	Journal of Archaeological Research	ca. 5
-	Journal of Peasant Studies	ca. 5
4	Agriculture and Human Values	ca. 4.3
-	Public Understanding of Science	ca. 4.3
6	China Journal	ca. 4.2
7	Annual Review of Anthropology	ca. 4
8	Post-Soviet Affairs	ca. 3.9
9	Journal of Cultural Heritage	ca. 3.7
10	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	ca. 3.6
11	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	ca. 3.4
-	Evolutionary Anthropology	ca. 3.4
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	ca. 3.4
14	European Security	ca. 3.3
-	Journal of Human Evolution	ca. 3.3
-	American Ethnologist	ca. 3.3
17	Social Studies of Science	ca. 3.2
-	Middle East Critique	ca. 3.2
19	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	ca. 3.1
-	Journal of Responsible Innovation	ca. 3.1
-	Journal of Contemporary China	ca. 3.1
22	Classical Review	ca. 3
23	Journal of Asian Public Policy	ca. 2.9
-	Minerva	ca. 2.9
-	Journal of Archaeological Science	ca. 2.9
-	Race & Class	ca. 2.9
27	Eurasian Geography and Economics	ca. 2.8
-	Journal of Contemporary Asia	ca. 2.8
29	Social Networks	ca. 2.7
-	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	ca. 2.7
31	Engineering Studies	ca. 2.6
32	Science & Education	ca. 2.5
-	Archaeological Prospection	ca. 2.5
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	ca. 2.5
35	Pacific Review	ca. 2.4
-	Review of African Political Economy	ca. 2.4
-	Nanoethics	ca. 2.4
38	Journal of Economic History	ca. 2.3
-	Latin American Politics and Society	ca. 2.3
-	Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology	ca. 2.3
-	African Affairs	ca. 2.3
42	Contemporary Southeast Asia	ca. 2.2
-	Social Anthropology	ca. 2.2
-	Science As Culture	ca. 2.2
-	Critical Asian Studies	ca. 2.2
-	Journal of Palestine Studies	ca. 2.2
47	Social Epistemology	ca. 2.1
-	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	ca. 2.1
-	Ethos	ca. 2.1
50	Current Anthropology	ca. 2

-	Turkish Studies	ca. 2
-	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	ca. 2
-	Human Ecology	ca. 2
-	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	ca. 2
-	Signs and Society	ca. 2
-	Transcultural Psychiatry	ca. 2
-	Explorations in Economic History	ca. 2
-	Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective	ca. 2
59	PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review	ca. 1.9
-	China Information	ca. 1.9
-	American Antiquity	ca. 1.9
-	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	ca. 1.9
-	Asian Survey	ca. 1.9
-	Twentieth Century British History	ca. 1.9
-	Culture Medicine and Psychiatry	ca. 1.9
-	Archaeological Dialogues	ca. 1.9
-	American Anthropologist	ca. 1.9
-	American Journal of Human Biology	ca. 1.9
69	East European Politics	ca. 1.8
-	Ethnos	ca. 1.8
-	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	ca. 1.8
-	Annals of Human Biology	ca. 1.8
-	Norwegian Archaeological Review	ca. 1.8
-	Advances in Archaeological Practice	ca. 1.8
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	ca. 1.8
-	Africa Spectrum	ca. 1.8
77	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	ca. 1.7
-	Journal of Modern African Studies	ca. 1.7
-	Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.7
-	Antiquity	ca. 1.7
-	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	ca. 1.7
-	Cambridge Archaeological Journal	ca. 1.7
-	Cliometrica	ca. 1.7
84	Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports	ca. 1.6
-	Journal of Global History	ca. 1.6
-	Central Asian Survey	ca. 1.6
-	Science and Technology Studies	ca. 1.6
-	Economic History Review	ca. 1.6
-	Biosemiotics	ca. 1.6
-	Management & Organizational History	ca. 1.6
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	ca. 1.6
-	Journal of Near Eastern Studies	ca. 1.6
-	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	ca. 1.6
-	Cultural Anthropology	ca. 1.6
95	Journal of Social Archaeology	ca. 1.5
-	Synthese	ca. 1.5
-	World Archaeology	ca. 1.5
-	Business History	ca. 1.5
-	Field Methods	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Latin American Studies	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	ca. 1.5
-	Environmental Archaeology	ca. 1.5
-	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.5
-	Europe-Asia Studies	ca. 1.5
-	Archaeological Research in Asia	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	ca. 1.5
-	Middle East Policy	ca. 1.5
-	Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies	ca. 1.5
110	Oral History Review	ca. 1.4
-	Journal of Roman Studies	ca. 1.4
-	Lithic Technology	ca. 1.4
-	Pacific Affairs	ca. 1.4
-	China Perspectives	ca. 1.4
-	History and Technology	ca. 1.4
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	ca. 1.4
-	Past & Present	ca. 1.4
-	Memory Studies	ca. 1.4
-	Social Science Japan Journal	ca. 1.4
-	Archaeometry	ca. 1.4
-	Historical Methods	ca. 1.4
-	Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa	ca. 1.4
-	Korea Observer	ca. 1.4
124	Osiris	ca. 1.3
-	Rural History-Economy Society Culture	ca. 1.3
-	Levant	ca. 1.3
-	Open Archaeology	ca. 1.3
-	Cultural Studies	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Eastern African Studies	ca. 1.3
-	Africa	ca. 1.3
-	Nations and Nationalism	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Legal History	ca. 1.3
-	Social Science History	ca. 1.3
-	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of African History	ca. 1.3
-	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	ca. 1.3
-	East European Politics and Societies	ca. 1.3
-	Biology & Philosophy	ca. 1.3
-	Medical Anthropology	ca. 1.3
140	Planning Perspectives	ca. 1.2
-	William and Mary Quarterly	ca. 1.2
-	Economic Anthropology	ca. 1.2
-	European Journal of Archaeology	ca. 1.2
-	Foundations of Science	ca. 1.2
-	African and Asian Studies	ca. 1.2
-	Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University	ca. 1.2
-	Ethnography	ca. 1.2
-	European Review of Economic History	ca. 1.2
-	Journal of Historical Geography	ca. 1.2
-	Mediterranean Politics	ca. 1.2
-	New Genetics and Society	ca. 1.2
152	Latin American Antiquity	ca. 1.1
-	Journal for the Study of Judaism	ca. 1.1
-	Public Culture	ca. 1.1
-	Critique of Anthropology	ca. 1.1
-	African Archaeological Review	ca. 1.1
-	Americas	ca. 1.1
-	Asian Studies Review	ca. 1.1
-	Modern China	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Field Archaeology	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology	ca. 1.1
-	Social History	ca. 1.1
-	Law and History Review	ca. 1.1
-	Medical History	ca. 1.1
-	Pacific Focus	ca. 1.1
-	Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology	ca. 1.1
-	History Workshop Journal	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Philosophy of Education	ca. 1.1
-	Magallania	ca. 1.1
-	Anthropological Theory	ca. 1.1
-	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	ca. 1.1
172	Renaissance Quarterly	ca. 1
-	Journal of Interdisciplinary History	ca. 1
-	Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies	ca. 1
-	Environmental History	ca. 1

-	History of the Family	ca. 1
-	Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress	ca. 1
-	International Journal of Middle East Studies	ca. 1
-	Historical Journal	ca. 1
-	Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites	ca. 1
-	Journal of Roman Archaeology	ca. 1
-	Labor History	ca. 1
-	Contemporary South Asia	ca. 1
-	Business History Review	ca. 1
-	Revista de Historia Economica	ca. 1
-	American Journal of Archaeology	ca. 1
-	Intelligence and National Security	ca. 1
-	Journal of Asian and African Studies	ca. 1
-	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	ca. 1
-	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	ca. 1
-	Anthropology & Medicine	ca. 1
192	Journal of British Studies	ca. 0.9
-	Radical History Review	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Maritime Archaeology	ca. 0.9
-	Scandinavian Journal of History	ca. 0.9
-	Studies in Conservation	ca. 0.9
-	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	ca. 0.9
-	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	ca. 0.9
-	Enterprise & Society	ca. 0.9

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