New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

History & Archaeology

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.643
2 Journal of Archaeological Research7.132
3 Journal of Peasant Studies6.958
4 Latin American Research Review6.792
5 European Security6.537
6 Social Networks5.890
7 Journal of Chinese Political Science5.842
8 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.676
9 Post-Soviet Affairs5.417
10 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.356
11 Public Understanding of Science5.306
12 Journal of Responsible Innovation5.271
13 Agriculture and Human Values5.172
14 Annual Review of Anthropology5.000
15 Transcultural Psychiatry4.971
16 Social Studies of Science4.955
17 Journal of Human Evolution4.938
18 Science & Education4.564
19 Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs4.378
20 Synthese4.367
21 Journal of Archaeological Science4.105
22 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.043
23 Minerva3.987
24 Science As Culture3.930
25 Journal of Contemporary China3.874
26 East European Politics3.863
27 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology3.826
28 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory3.631
29 Biology & Philosophy3.548
30 Pacific Review3.368
31 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.290
32 Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective3.267
33 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences3.255
34 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.124
35 Social Epistemology3.093
36 Journal of Economic History3.073
37 Nanoethics3.035
38 Evolutionary Anthropology3.034
39 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies2.977
40 Field Methods2.853
41 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.742
42 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.720
43 Cultural Anthropology2.664
44 Engineering Studies2.547
45 Journal of Social Archaeology2.517
46 Human Ecology2.438
47 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.434
48 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.429
49 Advances in Archaeological Practice2.427
50 African Affairs2.414
51 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.413
52 Historical Methods2.408
53 World Archaeology2.383
54 Biosemiotics2.349
55 Annals of Human Biology2.343
56 Nations and Nationalism2.333
57 Critique of Anthropology2.315
58 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.298
59 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science2.297
60 American Journal of Human Biology2.288
61 Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology2.266
62 Archaeological Prospection2.258
63 Journal of Field Archaeology2.249
64 Foundations of Chemistry2.240
65 Medical Anthropology2.239
66 Journal of Ethnobiology2.224
67 Race & Class2.196
68 Turkish Studies2.188
69 Management & Organizational History2.134
70 Cambridge Archaeological Journal2.128
71 Critical Asian Studies2.104
72 European Review of Economic History2.100
73 Philosophy of Science2.085
74 Lithic Technology2.064
75 Anthropology & Medicine2.048
- Journal of Eastern African Studies2.048
77 Geoarchaeology-An International Journal2.038
78 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry2.026
79 Anthropological Theory2.024
80 Journal of Historical Sociology2.000
81 Asian Survey1.989
82 Central Asian Survey1.986
83 Archaeometry1.965
84 Middle East Critique1.962
85 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies1.944
86 New Genetics and Society1.938
87 Explorations in Economic History1.906
88 American Anthropologist1.899
89 Environmental Archaeology1.897
90 Archaeological Dialogues1.886
91 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.870
92 Foundations of Science1.865
93 Review of African Political Economy1.844
94 Pacific Affairs1.838
95 Signs and Society1.830
96 Eurasian Geography and Economics1.825
97 Antiquity1.805
98 Ancient Mesoamerica1.788
99 Africa Spectrum1.771
100 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.726
101 Ethos1.703
102 Memory Studies1.686
103 China Quarterly1.677
104 Current Anthropology1.676
105 Contemporary Southeast Asia1.641
106 Open Archaeology1.627
107 Levant1.620
108 Australian Economic History Review1.607
109 Postcolonial Studies1.577
110 Cliometrica1.575
111 Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University1.574
112 Medical Anthropology Quarterly1.571
113 American Ethnologist1.567
114 Latin American Politics and Society1.556
115 Modern China1.554
116 Indonesia and the Malay World1.538
117 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.529
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology1.529
119 African Archaeological Review1.526
120 Social Anthropology1.518
121 Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology1.500
122 Archaeological Research in Asia1.491
123 Journal of Material Culture1.485
124 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology1.469
125 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.456
126 Journal of Philosophy of Education1.430
127 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.426
128 Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology1.421
129 Economic Anthropology1.418
130 History and Technology1.391
131 Ethnography1.388
132 Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies1.385
133 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.379
134 Past & Present1.353
135 East European Politics and Societies1.342
- Archaeology in Oceania1.342
137 Cultural Studies1.327
138 Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa1.313
139 History of the Family1.295
140 Mediterranean Politics1.287
141 Studies in Conservation1.284
- Ethnos1.284
143 Journal of Modern African Studies1.241
144 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.231
145 Journal of Global History1.227
146 Economic History Review1.215
- China Information1.215
148 History of Psychiatry1.207
149 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.200
150 Nexus Network Journal1.172
151 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.171
152 Business History1.142
153 Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress1.138
154 Comparative Studies in Society and History1.130
155 African Studies1.091
156 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.072
157 American Antiquity1.067
158 Anthropologie1.056
159 Public Culture1.050
160 Latin American Antiquity1.048
161 Human Organization1.046
162 European Journal of Archaeology1.040
163 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies1.027
164 Opuscula-Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome1.013
165 Anthropological Forum1.010
166 Science and Technology Studies1.009
167 History and Theory1.000
- Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies1.000
- India Review1.000
170 Planning Perspectives0.995
171 Anthropologischer Anzeiger0.994
172 Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports0.991
173 International Journal of Historical Archaeology0.988
174 Osiris0.987
175 Centaurus0.985
176 Estudios Atacamenos0.978
177 Journal of Maritime Archaeology0.976
178 History and Anthropology0.973
179 Endeavour0.972
180 Trabajos de Prehistoria0.963
181 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science0.949
182 History of the Human Sciences0.944
- Social Science Japan Journal0.944
184 Archaeofauna0.943
185 Middle East Policy0.924
186 China Perspectives0.922
187 Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy0.919
188 Labor History0.918
189 History of Political Economy0.914
190 History of Psychology0.905
191 Journal of Historical Geography0.901
192 Intelligence and National Security0.893
193 Scandinavian Journal of History0.888
194 Enterprise & Society0.881
195 Rethinking History0.868
196 Europe-Asia Studies0.864
- Social Science History0.864
198 Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites0.860
- Journal of Southern African Studies0.860
200 Bilig0.848
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