New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

History & Archaeology

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 Classical Review ca. 6
2 Journal of Peasant Studies ca. 4.8
3 Journal of Responsible Innovation ca. 4.1
- Journal of Archaeological Research ca. 4.1
5 Agriculture and Human Values ca. 3.6
- European Security ca. 3.6
7 Journal of Chinese Political Science ca. 3.5
8 China Journal ca. 3.4
9 Public Understanding of Science ca. 3.3
- Journal of Cultural Heritage ca. 3.3
11 Minerva ca. 3.2
12 Journal of Human Evolution ca. 3.1
- Evolutionary Anthropology ca. 3.1
- East European Politics ca. 3.1
- Medicine Health Care and Philosophy ca. 3.1
16 Post-Soviet Affairs ca. 3
- Science and Engineering Ethics ca. 3
18 Journal of Economic History ca. 2.9
19 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ca. 2.8
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics ca. 2.8
- Race & Class ca. 2.8
22 Transcultural Psychiatry ca. 2.7
- Annual Review of Anthropology ca. 2.7
- Social Studies of Science ca. 2.7
25 Science & Education ca. 2.5
- Journal of Archaeological Science ca. 2.5
27 Social Networks ca. 2.4
- Past & Present ca. 2.4
- Journal of Contemporary China ca. 2.4
- Science As Culture ca. 2.4
31 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies ca. 2.3
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ca. 2.3
33 Archaeological Dialogues ca. 2.2
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective ca. 2.2
- African Affairs ca. 2.2
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology ca. 2.2
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs ca. 2.2
- Africa Spectrum ca. 2.2
- Eurasian Geography and Economics ca. 2.2
40 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences ca. 2
- Pacific Review ca. 2
- Nations and Nationalism ca. 2
- Social Epistemology ca. 2
- American Ethnologist ca. 2
45 Cultural Anthropology ca. 1.9
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly ca. 1.9
- American Antiquity ca. 1.9
- Archaeological Prospection ca. 1.9
- Biosemiotics ca. 1.9
50 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry ca. 1.8
- Central Asian Survey ca. 1.8
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies ca. 1.8
- Twentieth Century British History ca. 1.8
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science ca. 1.8
- Postcolonial Studies ca. 1.8
- Current Anthropology ca. 1.8
- Journal of Contemporary Asia ca. 1.8
- Economic Development and Cultural Change ca. 1.8
- Biology & Philosophy ca. 1.8
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ca. 1.8
61 American Anthropologist ca. 1.7
- Human Ecology ca. 1.7
- Ethnos ca. 1.7
- Turkish Studies ca. 1.7
- Antiquity ca. 1.7
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology ca. 1.7
- American Journal of Human Biology ca. 1.7
- China Information ca. 1.7
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs ca. 1.7
- Explorations in Economic History ca. 1.7
71 Cambridge Archaeological Journal ca. 1.6
- Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity ca. 1.6
- Review of African Political Economy ca. 1.6
- Journal of Global History ca. 1.6
- Economic History Review ca. 1.6
- Advances in Archaeological Practice ca. 1.6
- Critique of Anthropology ca. 1.6
- Mediterranean Politics ca. 1.6
79 World Archaeology ca. 1.5
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa ca. 1.5
- Social Anthropology ca. 1.5
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint ca. 1.5
- Journal of Field Archaeology ca. 1.5
- Anthropological Theory ca. 1.5
- Archaeometry ca. 1.5
- Middle East Critique ca. 1.5
- Latin American Politics and Society ca. 1.5
- Nanoethics ca. 1.5
- New Genetics and Society ca. 1.5
90 Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports ca. 1.4
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology ca. 1.4
- Critical Asian Studies ca. 1.4
- Foundations of Chemistry ca. 1.4
- European Journal of Archaeology ca. 1.4
- Field Methods ca. 1.4
- International Journal of Middle East Studies ca. 1.4
- Management & Organizational History ca. 1.4
98 Trabajos de Prehistoria ca. 1.3
- Journal of Ethnobiology ca. 1.3
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly ca. 1.3
- Ethos ca. 1.3
- Journal of Palestine Studies ca. 1.3
- Synthese ca. 1.3
- Business History ca. 1.3
- Journal of Social Archaeology ca. 1.3
- Journal of Maritime Archaeology ca. 1.3
- PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review ca. 1.3
- Annals of Human Biology ca. 1.3
- Engineering Studies ca. 1.3
- Oral History Review ca. 1.3
- Australian Economic History Review ca. 1.3
112 Lithic Technology ca. 1.2
- Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University ca. 1.2
- Australian Archaeology ca. 1.2
- Pacific Affairs ca. 1.2
- Europe-Asia Studies ca. 1.2
- Journal of American History ca. 1.2
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History ca. 1.2
- Cultural Studies ca. 1.2
- Signs and Society ca. 1.2
- Medical Anthropology ca. 1.2
- Asian Survey ca. 1.2
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies ca. 1.2
- History and Theory ca. 1.2
- American Historical Review ca. 1.2
- British Journal for the History of Science ca. 1.2
- Business History Review ca. 1.2
- Memory Studies ca. 1.2
129 Middle East Journal ca. 1.1
- Comparative Studies in Society and History ca. 1.1
- Archaeological Research in Asia ca. 1.1
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ca. 1.1
- Levant ca. 1.1
- Environmental Archaeology ca. 1.1
- Journal of Asian Public Policy ca. 1.1
- Ethnography ca. 1.1
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies ca. 1.1
- Journal of Historical Geography ca. 1.1
- Medical History ca. 1.1
- History and Technology ca. 1.1
- Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies ca. 1.1
- African Archaeological Review ca. 1.1
- Africa ca. 1.1
- Latin American Antiquity ca. 1.1
- Norwegian Archaeological Review ca. 1.1
- Asian Studies Review ca. 1.1
- Anthropology & Medicine ca. 1.1
- Journal of Modern African Studies ca. 1.1
- Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies ca. 1.1
- Middle East Policy ca. 1.1
- Philosophy of Science ca. 1.1
152 Journal of Anthropological Research ca. 1
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology ca. 1
- Modern Intellectual History ca. 1
- South African Historical Journal ca. 1
- Osiris ca. 1
- European Review of Economic History ca. 1
- East European Politics and Societies ca. 1
- Economic Anthropology ca. 1
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology ca. 1
- Social Science History ca. 1
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences ca. 1
- Revue Historique ca. 1
164 South East Asia Research ca. 0.9
- Public Culture ca. 0.9
- Planning Perspectives ca. 0.9
- Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology ca. 0.9
- Iranian Studies ca. 0.9
- African Studies ca. 0.9
- China Perspectives ca. 0.9
- Contemporary Southeast Asia ca. 0.9
- Historical Methods ca. 0.9
- Journal of African History ca. 0.9
- Journal of Modern History ca. 0.9
- Radical History Review ca. 0.9
- Journal of the Philosophy of History ca. 0.9
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science ca. 0.9
- Isis ca. 0.9
- Enterprise & Society ca. 0.9
- Indonesia and the Malay World ca. 0.9
- Journal of Material Culture ca. 0.9
- Journal of Latin American Studies ca. 0.9
- Public Archaeology ca. 0.9
- Journal of Asian and African Studies ca. 0.9
- Modern China ca. 0.9
- Journal of Southern African Studies ca. 0.9
- Social History ca. 0.9
- Historical Journal ca. 0.9
- History Workshop Journal ca. 0.9
- Journal of Early Modern History ca. 0.9
- Science and Technology Studies ca. 0.9
- Foundations of Science ca. 0.9
- History of Political Economy ca. 0.9
- Early Medieval Europe ca. 0.9
195 Ancient Mesoamerica ca. 0.8
- American Journal of Archaeology ca. 0.8
- Opuscula-Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome ca. 0.8
- Journal of Roman Archaeology ca. 0.8
- Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies ca. 0.8
- Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites ca. 0.8
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