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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 Archaeological Research ca. 4.1
- Journal of Responsible Innovation 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 Journal of Cultural Heritage ca. 3.3
- Public Understanding of Science ca. 3.3
11 Minerva ca. 3.2
12 Evolutionary Anthropology ca. 3.1
- East European Politics ca. 3.1
- Medicine Health Care and Philosophy ca. 3.1
- Journal of Human Evolution ca. 3.1
16 Science and Engineering Ethics ca. 3
- Post-Soviet Affairs ca. 3
18 Journal of Economic History ca. 2.9
19 Race & Class ca. 2.8
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ca. 2.8
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics ca. 2.8
22 Annual Review of Anthropology ca. 2.7
- Social Studies of Science ca. 2.7
- Transcultural Psychiatry ca. 2.7
25 Journal of Archaeological Science ca. 2.5
- Science & Education ca. 2.5
27 Journal of Contemporary China ca. 2.4
- Science As Culture ca. 2.4
- Social Networks ca. 2.4
- Past & Present ca. 2.4
31 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ca. 2.3
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies ca. 2.3
33 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
- Archaeological Dialogues ca. 2.2
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective ca. 2.2
- African Affairs ca. 2.2
40 American Ethnologist ca. 2
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences ca. 2
- Pacific Review ca. 2
- Nations and Nationalism ca. 2
- Social Epistemology ca. 2
45 American Antiquity ca. 1.9
- Archaeological Prospection ca. 1.9
- Biosemiotics ca. 1.9
- Cultural Anthropology ca. 1.9
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly ca. 1.9
50 Current Anthropology ca. 1.8
- Journal of Contemporary Asia ca. 1.8
- Economic Development and Cultural Change ca. 1.8
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ca. 1.8
- Biology & Philosophy ca. 1.8
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry ca. 1.8
- Central Asian Survey ca. 1.8
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies ca. 1.8
- Postcolonial Studies ca. 1.8
- Twentieth Century British History ca. 1.8
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science ca. 1.8
61 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
- American Anthropologist ca. 1.7
- Human Ecology ca. 1.7
- Ethnos ca. 1.7
- Turkish Studies ca. 1.7
71 Advances in Archaeological Practice ca. 1.6
- Critique of Anthropology ca. 1.6
- Mediterranean Politics ca. 1.6
- 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
79 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
- New Genetics and Society ca. 1.5
- Nanoethics ca. 1.5
- World Archaeology ca. 1.5
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa ca. 1.5
- Social Anthropology ca. 1.5
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint ca. 1.5
90 International Journal of Middle East Studies ca. 1.4
- European Journal of Archaeology ca. 1.4
- Field Methods ca. 1.4
- Management & Organizational History ca. 1.4
- 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
98 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
- Oral History Review ca. 1.3
- Australian Economic History Review ca. 1.3
- Engineering Studies ca. 1.3
- Journal of Palestine Studies ca. 1.3
- Trabajos de Prehistoria ca. 1.3
- Journal of Ethnobiology ca. 1.3
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly ca. 1.3
- Ethos ca. 1.3
- Synthese ca. 1.3
- Business History ca. 1.3
112 Asian Survey ca. 1.2
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies ca. 1.2
- Cultural Studies ca. 1.2
- Signs and Society ca. 1.2
- Medical Anthropology 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
- Pacific Affairs ca. 1.2
- Europe-Asia Studies ca. 1.2
- 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
- Journal of American History ca. 1.2
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History ca. 1.2
129 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
- African Archaeological Review ca. 1.1
- Philosophy of Science ca. 1.1
- Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies 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
- Middle East Journal ca. 1.1
- Comparative Studies in Society and History ca. 1.1
- Archaeological Research in Asia ca. 1.1
- History and Technology ca. 1.1
- Journal of Historical Geography ca. 1.1
- Medical History ca. 1.1
152 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology ca. 1
- East European Politics and Societies ca. 1
- Economic Anthropology ca. 1
- Social Science History ca. 1
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences ca. 1
- Revue Historique ca. 1
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology ca. 1
- Journal of Anthropological Research ca. 1
- Modern Intellectual History ca. 1
- South African Historical Journal ca. 1
- Osiris ca. 1
- European Review of Economic History ca. 1
164 Early Medieval Europe 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
- 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
195 Palestine Exploration Quarterly ca. 0.8
- Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy ca. 0.8
- Studies in Conservation ca. 0.8
- Journal of Asian Studies ca. 0.8
- Journal of the Polynesian Society ca. 0.8
- Contemporary South Asia ca. 0.8
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