New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics13.741
2 Heritage Science12.512
3 Journal of Chinese Political Science8.128
4 Agriculture and Human Values6.436
5 Journal of Responsible Innovation6.423
6 ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage6.277
7 Public Understanding of Science6.223
8 Post-Soviet Affairs6.144
9 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.907
10 Science & Education5.766
11 Social Studies of Science5.673
12 Games and Culture5.000
13 European Security4.860
14 Journal of Contemporary China4.697
15 Social Epistemology4.358
16 Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts4.331
17 International Journal of Cultural Studies4.109
18 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.108
19 Minerva4.089
20 Cultural Studies of Science Education3.805
21 Journal of Consumer Culture3.798
22 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies3.772
23 Pacific Review3.762
24 International Journal of Heritage Studies3.546
25 Nanoethics3.513
26 Biology & Philosophy3.479
27 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs3.347
28 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.335
29 Museum Management and Curatorship3.216
30 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.150
31 Journal of Contemporary European Studies3.143
32 East European Politics3.138
33 Fashion Practice-The Journal of Design Creative Process & the Fashion Industry2.953
34 International Journal of Cultural Policy2.852
35 Middle East Critique2.823
36 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.803
37 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.798
38 Eurasian Geography and Economics2.770
39 Engineering Studies2.754
40 Asian Survey2.747
41 Critical Asian Studies2.722
42 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies2.678
43 Daedalus2.673
44 European Journal of Cultural Studies2.664
45 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.635
46 Science As Culture2.563
47 Empirical Studies of the Arts2.506
48 Theory Culture & Society2.417
49 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science2.408
50 Biosemiotics2.403
51 Historic Environment-Policy & Practice2.380
52 Journal of Cultural Economy2.378
53 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies2.342
54 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.246
55 Latin American Politics and Society2.223
56 Social Semiotics2.188
57 African Affairs2.185
58 Foundations of Science2.128
59 Turkish Studies2.100
60 Journal of Eastern African Studies2.062
61 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.994
62 Africa Spectrum1.961
63 Digital Scholarship in the Humanities1.917
64 Philosophy of Science1.882
- Medical Humanities1.882
66 Cultural Trends1.879
67 New Genetics and Society1.872
68 Mediterranean Politics1.863
69 China Quarterly1.855
70 Review of African Political Economy1.842
71 Memory Studies1.777
72 East European Politics and Societies1.749
73 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.734
74 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.724
75 Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power1.721
76 Modern China1.714
77 Central Asian Survey1.700
78 Senses & Society1.699
79 Foundations of Chemistry1.669
80 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies1.661
81 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.659
82 Space and Culture1.657
83 Signs and Society1.648
84 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.623
85 Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies1.604
86 Journal of African Media Studies1.574
87 Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies1.526
88 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.520
89 South Atlantic Quarterly1.516
90 Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies1.506
91 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.457
92 Journal of Palestine Studies1.422
93 Semiotica1.407
94 Journal of Modern African Studies1.366
95 Nexus Network Journal1.324
96 China Information1.313
97 Osiris1.286
98 Journal of African Cultural Studies1.245
99 African Studies1.238
100 India Review1.230
101 Middle East Policy1.228
102 European Review1.175
103 Celebrity Studies1.170
104 History of the Human Sciences1.167
105 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.151
106 Korea Observer1.139
107 Science and Technology Studies1.128
108 Journal of Southern African Studies1.116
109 Journal of Material Culture1.106
110 Curator-The Museum Journal1.102
111 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.098
112 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies1.094
113 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.083
114 Cultural Studies1.081
115 Positions-Asia Critique1.068
116 Public Culture1.066
117 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science1.047
118 Parallax1.012
- Trames-Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences1.012
120 Postcolonial Studies1.009
121 IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies0.993
122 Bilig0.992
123 Latin American Perspectives0.964
124 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.962
125 Asian Studies Review0.957
126 Journal of Scholarly Publishing0.955
127 Contemporary South Asia0.950
128 Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture0.943
129 Social Science Japan Journal0.935
130 Modern Asian Studies0.934
131 Europe-Asia Studies0.931
132 Visual Studies0.925
133 South East Asia Research0.912
134 Grey Room0.901
135 Pacific Focus0.889
- Journal of Visual Culture0.889
137 Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies0.875
138 Journal of Arts Management Law and Society0.872
139 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.859
140 Journal of the History of Biology0.858
141 Israel Affairs0.856
142 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies0.849
143 Indonesia and the Malay World0.836
144 East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.832
145 Endeavour0.830
146 Medical History0.825
147 History and Philosophy of Logic0.822
148 History of Science0.802
149 NTM0.785
150 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences0.782
151 Journal of Baltic Studies0.780
152 China Perspectives0.779
153 Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies0.778
154 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.773
155 Centaurus0.769
156 Africa0.768
157 Cryptologia0.710
158 Disparidades-Revista de Antropologia0.700
159 Configurations0.690
160 Journal of Latin American Studies0.686
161 Theology and Science0.679
- Journal for the History of Astronomy0.679
163 French Cultural Studies0.652
164 Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies0.650
165 Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie/Yearbook of Music Psychology0.640
166 Journal of Canadian Studies-Revue d'Etudes Canadiennes0.636
167 Critical Inquiry0.632
168 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.630
169 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies0.608
170 South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies0.599
171 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte0.582
172 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.580
173 Textile-Cloth and Culture0.573
174 Text and Performance Quarterly0.561
175 Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture0.560
176 Journal of European Studies0.558
177 Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association0.557
178 Journal of Aesthetic Education0.554
- Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies0.554
180 Representations0.547
- Angelaki-Journal of the Theoretical Humanities0.547
182 Journal of the American Institute for Conservation0.546
183 Isis0.544
- CR-The New Centennial Review0.544
185 Historical Records of Australian Science0.531
186 Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy0.512
187 China Journal0.504
188 Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.502
189 American Imago0.500
- European Journal of English Studies0.500
191 Annals of Science0.484
192 Middle Eastern Studies0.480
193 Journal of Medical Biography0.473
194 Asian Philosophy0.460
195 International Journal of Middle East Studies0.455
196 International Journal of Asian Studies0.451
197 Muslim World0.449
198 Journal of American Folklore0.447
199 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing0.437
200 African and Asian Studies0.429
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