New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Arts & Humanities

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.016
2 Heritage Science7.421
3 Latin American Research Review6.740
4 European Security6.303
5 Journal of Chinese Political Science5.763
6 Social Studies of Science5.503
7 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.289
8 Post-Soviet Affairs5.152
9 Public Understanding of Science5.065
10 Journal of Responsible Innovation5.011
11 Agriculture and Human Values4.930
12 ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage4.592
13 Minerva4.521
14 Science & Education4.410
15 Daedalus4.403
16 Synthese4.198
17 Science As Culture4.104
18 Journal of Consumer Culture4.019
19 Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts3.923
20 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science3.863
21 Journal of Contemporary China3.748
22 East European Politics3.743
23 Theory Culture & Society3.715
24 Cultural Studies of Science Education3.568
25 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.490
26 Biology & Philosophy3.457
27 Games and Culture3.440
28 Pacific Review3.250
29 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.187
30 Asia Pacific Viewpoint3.073
31 Nanoethics2.925
32 Social Epistemology2.896
33 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.838
34 International Journal of Cultural Studies2.805
35 Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry2.804
36 Journal of Cultural Economy2.796
37 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies2.739
38 Cultural Trends2.693
39 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.660
40 International Journal of Heritage Studies2.622
41 Engineering Studies2.589
42 African Affairs2.536
43 Historic Environment-Policy & Practice2.488
44 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.422
45 Space and Culture2.356
46 Biosemiotics2.339
47 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.306
48 International Journal of Cultural Policy2.288
49 New Genetics and Society2.268
50 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.231
51 European Journal of Cultural Studies2.229
52 Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies2.228
53 Museum Management and Curatorship2.202
54 Journal of Eastern African Studies2.200
55 Central Asian Survey2.163
56 Turkish Studies2.116
57 Foundations of Chemistry2.100
58 Philosophy of Science2.000
59 Asian Survey1.958
60 Critical Asian Studies1.944
61 Africa Spectrum1.896
62 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science1.876
63 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies1.873
64 Journal of African Media Studies1.855
65 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.850
66 Pacific Affairs1.844
67 Review of African Political Economy1.829
68 Social Semiotics1.815
69 Medical Humanities1.789
70 Memory Studies1.787
71 Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power1.776
72 Middle East Critique1.774
73 Signs and Society1.765
74 Foundations of Science1.754
75 South Atlantic Quarterly1.742
76 Eurasian Geography and Economics1.732
77 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.695
78 China Quarterly1.654
79 Empirical Studies of the Arts1.644
80 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.589
81 Postcolonial Studies1.560
82 Digital Scholarship in the Humanities1.545
83 Indonesia and the Malay World1.523
84 Modern China1.510
85 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.482
86 Latin American Politics and Society1.457
87 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.435
88 Journal of Material Culture1.430
89 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.397
90 Senses & Society1.393
91 Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies1.387
92 Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies1.380
93 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.368
94 Celebrity Studies1.324
95 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies1.311
96 Cultural Studies1.286
97 China Information1.282
98 Journal of Modern African Studies1.242
99 East European Politics and Societies1.231
100 Mediterranean Politics1.219
101 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.191
102 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.190
103 African Studies1.186
104 Nexus Network Journal1.123
105 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.081
106 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.074
107 Semiotica1.070
108 Trames-Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences1.056
109 India Review1.047
110 Curator-The Museum Journal1.004
111 Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture0.987
112 Science and Technology Studies0.973
113 Journal of African Cultural Studies0.971
114 Journal of Scholarly Publishing0.953
115 Journal of Arts Management Law and Society0.949
116 Osiris0.948
117 Centaurus0.944
118 Representations0.943
119 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies0.938
120 Europe-Asia Studies0.931
121 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.920
122 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.919
123 China Perspectives0.917
124 Social Science Japan Journal0.908
125 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science0.904
126 Endeavour0.896
127 Bilig0.891
128 Middle East Policy0.883
129 History of the Human Sciences0.871
130 Journal of Southern African Studies0.859
131 CR-The New Centennial Review0.842
132 Public Culture0.822
133 History of Science0.819
134 Journal of the History of Biology0.810
135 IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies0.791
136 Journal of Visual Culture0.789
137 Contemporary South Asia0.771
138 Visual Studies0.767
139 Journal of Palestine Studies0.756
140 European Review0.726
141 Asian Studies Review0.718
- Modern Asian Studies0.718
- Journal of the American Institute for Conservation0.718
144 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.715
145 Pacific Focus0.713
146 Latin American Perspectives0.708
147 Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie/Yearbook of Music Psychology0.704
148 NTM0.679
149 Positions-Asia Critique0.671
150 Cryptologia0.669
151 Korea Observer0.667
152 Journal of Canadian Studies-Revue d'Etudes Canadiennes0.663
153 Medical History0.636
154 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science0.633
155 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies0.632
- Patterns of Prejudice0.632
157 Journal of Baltic Studies0.630
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.630
159 Israel Affairs0.625
160 Isis0.619
161 Journal for the History of Astronomy0.611
162 Critical Inquiry0.598
163 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies0.589
164 History and Philosophy of Logic0.586
165 Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies0.581
166 East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.579
167 Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies0.576
168 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies0.574
169 South East Asia Research0.567
170 Textile-Cloth and Culture0.564
171 China Journal0.538
172 Ambix0.525
173 South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies0.523
174 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.514
175 Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association0.513
176 Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy0.505
- French Cultural Studies0.505
178 Africa0.494
179 Text and Performance Quarterly0.493
180 Arbor-Ciencia Pensamiento y Cultura0.491
181 Disparidades-Revista de Antropologia0.488
182 Theology and Science0.486
183 Historical Records of Australian Science0.471
184 European Journal of English Studies0.467
185 Journal of Korean Studies0.466
186 Journal of Aesthetic Education0.443
187 Journal of European Studies0.440
188 Bulletin of Latin American Research0.437
189 Annals of Science0.432
190 Muslim World0.430
191 Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science0.412
192 Historia Mathematica0.408
193 Journal of Latin American Studies0.406
194 International Journal of Middle East Studies0.383
195 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.381
196 Journal of American Folklore0.376
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing0.376
198 Postmedieval-A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies0.372
199 Archives of Natural History0.370
200 Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture0.367
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