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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.955
2 Journal of Peasant Studies6.274
3 Journal of Archaeological Research6.214
4 Social Networks6.003
5 European Security5.755
6 Journal of Human Evolution5.603
7 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.599
8 Latin American Research Review5.543
9 Annual Review of Anthropology5.373
10 Social Studies of Science5.120
11 Journal of Chinese Political Science5.105
12 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.063
13 Journal of Archaeological Science4.780
14 Transcultural Psychiatry4.776
15 Post-Soviet Affairs4.774
16 Agriculture and Human Values4.762
17 Synthese4.519
18 Public Understanding of Science4.380
19 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.267
20 Journal of Ethnobiology4.239
21 American Journal of Physical Anthropology4.238
22 Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs4.218
23 Science & Education4.126
24 Minerva3.957
25 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences3.863
26 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology3.816
27 Biology & Philosophy3.809
28 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.777
29 Science As Culture3.686
30 Journal of Contemporary China3.659
31 Evolutionary Anthropology3.514
32 Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective3.505
33 Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory3.473
34 Cultural Anthropology3.444
35 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science3.161
36 Economic Development and Cultural Change3.149
37 Journal of Economic History2.956
38 Pacific Review2.805
39 Asia Pacific Viewpoint2.782
40 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.638
41 Explorations in Economic History2.523
42 Nanoethics2.494
43 Human Ecology2.492
44 Field Methods2.484
45 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies2.473
46 Annals of Human Biology2.448
47 Current Anthropology2.329
48 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs2.319
49 Engineering Studies2.309
- European Review of Economic History2.309
51 Anthropology & Medicine2.308
52 Social Epistemology2.299
53 American Journal of Human Biology2.284
54 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry2.267
55 African Affairs2.237
56 Biosemiotics2.218
57 Journal of Field Archaeology2.206
58 American Anthropologist2.159
59 Archaeological Prospection2.146
60 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences2.145
61 Critique of Anthropology2.139
62 Lithic Technology2.126
- Medical Anthropology2.126
64 New Genetics and Society2.114
65 Pacific Affairs2.101
66 Journal of Eastern African Studies2.094
67 Central Asian Survey2.086
- Journal of Social Archaeology2.086
69 Historical Methods2.050
70 Nations and Nationalism2.046
71 World Archaeology2.042
72 Journal of Contemporary European Studies2.041
73 Journal of Asian Public Policy2.032
74 Africa Spectrum2.020
75 Journal of Contemporary Asia2.017
76 Antiquity1.928
77 Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology1.921
78 Turkish Studies1.918
79 Archaeometry1.895
80 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology1.893
81 Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology1.878
82 Anthropological Theory1.877
83 Philosophy of Science1.876
84 Environmental Archaeology1.868
85 Cambridge Archaeological Journal1.839
86 Geoarchaeology-An International Journal1.798
87 Critical Asian Studies1.791
88 Race & Class1.786
89 Australian Economic History Review1.778
90 Foundations of Chemistry1.776
91 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.764
92 Archaeological Dialogues1.763
- Osiris1.763
94 Asian Survey1.714
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology1.714
96 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies1.696
- Journal of Global History1.696
98 Foundations of Science1.686
99 Journal of Asian and African Studies1.674
100 Management & Organizational History1.672
101 Memory Studies1.670
102 Cliometrica1.582
103 Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology1.571
104 Ancient Mesoamerica1.564
105 Eurasian Geography and Economics1.562
106 History and Technology1.560
107 China Quarterly1.538
108 Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University1.529
109 Postcolonial Studies1.521
110 Review of African Political Economy1.516
111 Journal of Historical Sociology1.486
112 African Archaeological Review1.484
113 American Ethnologist1.480
114 Anthropological Forum1.455
115 Ethos1.451
116 Indonesia and the Malay World1.441
117 Levant1.438
118 Latin American Politics and Society1.396
119 Social Anthropology1.395
120 Middle East Critique1.356
121 Ethnography1.355
122 Economic History Review1.332
123 Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa1.328
124 African Studies1.310
125 Journal of Material Culture1.301
126 Modern China1.271
127 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity1.263
128 Journal of Modern African Studies1.254
129 China Information1.248
130 European Journal of Archaeology1.234
131 Medical Anthropology Quarterly1.229
132 Past & Present1.204
133 Trabajos de Prehistoria1.191
134 Archaeology in Oceania1.181
135 Nexus Network Journal1.169
136 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.162
137 Cultural Studies1.153
138 Mediterranean Politics1.149
139 Anthropologischer Anzeiger1.147
140 Ethnos1.146
141 East European Politics and Societies1.137
142 Journal of Philosophy of Education1.133
143 Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies1.127
144 Estudios Atacamenos1.117
145 International Journal of Historical Archaeology1.115
146 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.114
147 History of the Family1.110
148 Studies in Conservation1.089
149 Centaurus1.087
150 Anthropology & Education Quarterly1.083
151 History of Psychiatry1.080
152 Business History1.078
153 Comparative Studies in Society and History1.076
154 Latin American Antiquity1.047
155 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.039
156 Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy1.023
157 History of the Human Sciences1.021
158 Public Culture1.018
159 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.015
160 Social Analysis1.000
161 History and Theory0.995
162 American Antiquity0.991
163 Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies0.974
164 Archaeofauna0.957
165 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.941
166 Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress0.940
- Contemporary Southeast Asia0.940
168 Journal of Maritime Archaeology0.937
- Europe-Asia Studies0.937
170 Journal of Southern African Studies0.930
171 Intelligence and National Security0.925
172 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies0.903
173 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine0.895
174 History and Anthropology0.884
175 Scandinavian Journal of History0.874
176 Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture0.873
177 India Review0.864
178 Endeavour0.858
179 Anthropologie0.852
180 History of Political Economy0.846
181 Human Organization0.843
182 Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology0.842
183 History of Psychology0.838
184 Journal of the History of Biology0.831
185 Enterprise & Society0.822
186 History of Science0.806
187 Rethinking History0.799
188 Planning Perspectives0.787
189 Middle East Policy0.786
190 Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites0.783
191 Social Science Japan Journal0.781
192 Journal of the History of Economic Thought0.768
- Praehistorische Zeitschrift0.768
194 Labor History0.766
195 Australian Archaeology0.765
196 Asian Studies Review0.760
197 Journal of Historical Geography0.747
198 European Journal of the History of Economic Thought0.741
199 Opuscula-Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome0.737
200 Bilig0.727
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