New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

History & Archaeology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Journal of Cultural Heritage27
2 Agriculture and Human Values25
3 Journal of Peasant Studies24
4 Science & Education22
5 Public Understanding of Science20
- Journal of Human Evolution20
7 Journal of Archaeological Science19
8 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy18
9 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science17
- Annual Review of Anthropology17
- European Security17
- Journal of Chinese Political Science17
- Journal of Responsible Innovation17
- China Quarterly17
- Social Networks17
16 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences16
- Science and Engineering Ethics16
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science16
- Antiquity16
- Social Studies of Science16
21 American Journal of Human Biology15
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs15
- Journal of Contemporary China15
- Social Epistemology15
25 Journal of Contemporary European Studies14
- American Anthropologist14
- Post-Soviet Affairs14
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology14
- Journal of Economic History14
30 Current Anthropology13
- Evolutionary Anthropology13
- Human Ecology13
- Memory Studies13
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science13
- Journal of Asian and African Studies13
- Minerva13
- Nations and Nationalism13
- Economic Development and Cultural Change13
39 Journal of Contemporary Asia12
- Transcultural Psychiatry12
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory12
- American Ethnologist12
- Middle East Critique12
- Pacific Review12
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies12
- Turkish Studies12
- Journal of Archaeological Research12
48 Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity11
- East European Politics11
- Eurasian Geography and Economics11
- Latin American Politics and Society11
- Annals of Human Biology11
- Explorations in Economic History11
- Philosophy of Science11
55 Geoarchaeology-An International Journal10
- Archaeological Prospection10
- Archaeometry10
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal10
- Isis10
- Advances in Archaeological Practice10
- Race & Class10
- Biology & Philosophy10
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly10
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint10
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies10
- Central Asian Survey10
- Social Anthropology10
- Europe-Asia Studies10
- Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports10
- Journal of Field Archaeology10
- Science As Culture10
72 Asian Studies Review9
- Economic History Review9
- Journal of Asian Public Policy9
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences9
- Journal of Philosophy of Education9
- African Affairs9
- Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies9
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology9
- American Historical Review9
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies9
- Journal of Ethnobiology9
- Journal of Historical Geography9
- Journal of Modern African Studies9
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute9
- Asian Survey9
- Business History9
- China Journal9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry9
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective9
92 European Journal of Archaeology8
- Biosemiotics8
- Medical Anthropology8
- Mediterranean Politics8
- Anthropological Theory8
- Positions-Asia Critique8
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa8
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences8
- Contemporary South Asia8
- Environmental Archaeology8
- Intelligence and National Security8
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs8
- Engineering Studies8
- Nanoethics8
- Cultural Anthropology8
- East European Politics and Societies8
- Ethos8
- European Review of Economic History8
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology8
- Lithic Technology8
- Planning Perspectives8
113 Foundations of Science7
- Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress7
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies7
- International Journal of Asian Studies7
- American Antiquity7
- Journal of Eastern African Studies7
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology7
- Nexus Network Journal7
- Journal of Southern African Studies7
- Africa Spectrum7
- Latin American Perspectives7
- Middle East Policy7
- Modern Asian Studies7
- Signs and Society7
- Critique of Anthropology7
- Economic Anthropology7
- Ethnos7
- European Review7
- Field Methods7
- Human Organization7
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- Labor History7
- World Archaeology7
- Open Archaeology7
- Foundations of Chemistry7
- Archaeological Research in Asia7
- Archaeology in Oceania7
- Historical Methods7
- History and Theory7
- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies7
- Comparative Studies in Society and History7
- African Archaeological Review7
- Journal of Latin American Studies7
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine7
- Africa7
- African Studies Review7
- Management & Organizational History7
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly7
- Pacific Affairs7
- Review of African Political Economy7
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- History of Political Economy7
- Journal of the History of Biology7
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics7
- Journal of Maritime Archaeology7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
159 Australian Archaeology6
- International Journal of Nautical Archaeology6
- American Journal of Archaeology6
- Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology6
- Journal of Palestine Studies6
- Anthropology & Medicine6
- Business History Review6
- China Information6
- China Perspectives6
- Contemporary Southeast Asia6
- Cultural Studies6
- Social Science Japan Journal6
- History of Education6
- History of the Family6
- Social Science History6
- Medical History6
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing6
- Centaurus6
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology6
- Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies6
- Cliometrica6
- Ancient Mesoamerica6
- Israel Affairs6
- Anthropologie6
- Modern China6
- PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review6
- Ethnography6
- HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory6
- IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies6
- Studies in Conservation6
- Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University6
- Theology and Science6
- Latin American Antiquity6
- Levant6
- Trabajos de Prehistoria6
- Womens History Review6
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science6
- Postcolonial Studies6
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology6
199 Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos5
- Historical Journal5
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