Arts & Humanities: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The 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	Papers
1	Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies	1485
2	Journal of the American Oriental Society	1447
3	Renaissance Quarterly	1386
4	Classical Review	1065
5	Heritage Science	943
6	Slavic Review	941
7	Journal of Asian Studies	896
8	Moyen Age	887
9	Journal of Asian and African Studies	802
10	Isis	751
11	African Studies Review	739
12	Renaissance and Reformation	702
13	China Quarterly	664
14	Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts	660
15	Europe-Asia Studies	641
16	University of Toronto Quarterly	616
17	Cahiers de Civilisation Medievale	585
18	Index on Censorship	572
19	Philosophy of Science	548
20	Agriculture and Human Values	517
21	Signa-Revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Semiotica	515
22	Gnomon-Kritische Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft	509
23	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	477
24	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	471
25	European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms	469
26	Wasafiri	460
27	Memory Studies	455
28	Digital Scholarship in the Humanities	448
29	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	446
30	Journal of Popular Culture	439
31	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	438
32	British Journal for the History of Science	437
33	International Journal of Middle East Studies	431
34	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	426
35	China Journal	416
36	Science & Education	402
37	Latin American Perspectives	397
38	Social History of Medicine	395
39	Bulletin of Latin American Research	389
-	International Journal of Heritage Studies	389
41	Quaestio Rossica	387
42	European Journal of Cultural Studies	384
43	Journal of Roman Studies	382
44	Womens Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal	381
45	Asian Studies Review	379
46	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	369
47	Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos	364
48	Journal of Hellenic Studies	358
-	Critical Inquiry	358
50	Journal of American Folklore	354

51	Visual Studies	347
-	Israel Affairs	347
53	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	343
54	Iranian Studies	338
55	Contemporary South Asia	332
56	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	329
-	Classical Quarterly	329
58	Africa	326
-	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	326
60	Medical Humanities	323
61	Logos-Vilnius	321
-	ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage	321
63	Journal of Latin American Studies	318
64	International Journal of Cultural Policy	313
65	Agricultural History	310
66	Public Understanding of Science	308
67	Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies-University of London	307
68	Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies	302
69	Early Medieval Europe	299
70	Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies	297
71	Middle Eastern Studies	293
72	Angelaki-Journal of the Theoretical Humanities	292
73	Daedalus	288
74	Eurasian Geography and Economics	287
75	Theology and Science	284
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	284
77	Social Epistemology	278
78	Games and Culture	277
79	Semiotica	273
-	Archives of Natural History	273
81	Modern Italy	272
-	Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal	272
83	Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies	271
84	Inter-Asia Cultural Studies	270
85	Seventeenth Century	269
86	Jung Journal-Culture & Psyche	266
87	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	265
88	Journal of Southern African Studies	263
89	Nexus Network Journal	260
90	Economic Development and Cultural Change	259
-	Renaissance Studies	259
92	Curator-The Museum Journal	257
93	Modern Asian Studies	252
-	Journal of Islamic Studies	252
-	Folklore	252
96	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	251
-	Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society	251
98	Mnemosyne	250
-	Journal of Contemporary China	250
-	Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies	250
101	Journal of Australian Studies	249
-	Theory Culture & Society	249
103	Utopian Studies	248
104	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	246
105	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	245
106	Middle East Policy	240
107	Journal of Baltic Studies	238
-	Journal of Contemporary Asia	238
109	Synthese	237
-	Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture	237
111	South Atlantic Quarterly	236
-	Scandinavian Studies	236
-	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	236
114	Middle East Journal	235
115	Irish Studies Review	234
116	Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science	228
117	International Journal of Cultural Studies	226
-	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	226
119	Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies	224
120	Latin American Politics and Society	223
121	Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences	220
-	Textile-Cloth and Culture	220
123	Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power	219
124	Museum Management and Curatorship	218
125	Cultural Studies	217
-	Common Knowledge	217
-	Journal of American Studies	217
128	Classical Philology	216
-	Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy	216
130	African and Asian Studies	215
-	Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal	215
132	Parergon	214
133	Journal of Palestine Studies	213
134	Middle East Critique	212
135	International Journal of Asian Studies	211
-	Social Semiotics	211
137	Central Asian Survey	209
-	Journal of English and Germanic Philology	209
-	Journal of Near Eastern Studies	209
140	Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America	208
141	China Perspectives	204
-	Journal of the History of Collections	204
-	Modernism-Modernity	204
144	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	202
145	Mediterranean Politics	201
146	Bulletin of the History of Medicine	200
147	East European Politics and Societies	199
-	Cultural Trends	199
149	Turkish Studies	198
-	Centaurus	198
151	European Review	197
-	Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies	197
-	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	197
154	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine	195
155	Journal of Semitic Studies	194
156	Small Axe	193
-	Byzantinische Zeitschrift	193
158	Journal of European Studies	191
159	Cultural Studies of Science Education	190
-	Journal of Medical Biography	190
-	Journal of Modern African Studies	190
162	Asian Survey	189
163	Italian Studies	184
164	Culture et Musees	183
165	Caravelle	182
-	Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines	182
-	Bijdragen Tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde	182
-	Islam-Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients	182
169	Library	181
170	Social Studies of Science	179
-	Foundations of Science	179
172	Journal of Responsible Innovation	178
173	Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture	177
174	Societes	176
-	Celebrity Studies	176

176	Review of African Political Economy	175
177	Journal of the History of Biology	174
-	Arthuriana	174
179	Biology & Philosophy	173
180	Positions-Asia Critique	170
-	Hispanic Research Journal-Iberian and Latin American Studies	170
182	Arbor-Ciencia Pensamiento y Cultura	169
183	Journal for the History of Astronomy	167
184	Journal of Asian Public Policy	166
185	Biosemiotics	165
186	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	164
-	Postmedieval-A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies	164
-	Pacific Review	164
-	South East Asia Research	164
190	Journal of Medieval History	162
-	Medical History	162
-	Ambix	162
-	History and Philosophy of Logic	162
-	Victorian Periodicals Review	162
195	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	158
196	Journal of Chinese Political Science	156
197	Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft	154
-	Latin American Research Review	154
199	Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore	152
200	Text and Performance Quarterly	150

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