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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences24
- Journal of Cultural Heritage24
3 Journal of Peasant Studies23
4 Agriculture and Human Values22
5 Science and Engineering Ethics21
- Journal of Archaeological Science21
7 Journal of Human Evolution20
8 Social Networks18
9 Science & Education17
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science17
- Public Understanding of Science17
12 European Security16
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs16
- Latin American Research Review16
- Transcultural Psychiatry16
- Medicine Health Care and Philosophy16
17 Journal of Chinese Political Science15
- American Anthropologist15
- American Journal of Human Biology15
- Annual Review of Anthropology15
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science15
- China Quarterly15
- Synthese15
24 Current Anthropology14
- Evolutionary Anthropology14
- Journal of Asian and African Studies14
- Social Studies of Science14
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology14
- Antiquity14
30 Journal of Contemporary China13
- Minerva13
- Post-Soviet Affairs13
33 Memory Studies12
- Economic Development and Cultural Change12
- Human Ecology12
- American Ethnologist12
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory12
- Philosophy of Science12
39 Nations and Nationalism11
- Economic History Review11
- Biology & Philosophy11
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology11
- Cultural Anthropology11
- Europe-Asia Studies11
- Journal of Contemporary Asia11
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies11
- Journal of Economic History11
- European Journal for Philosophy of Science11
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences11
50 Turkish Studies10
- Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective10
- Journal of Ethnobiology10
- African Affairs10
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint10
- Central Asian Survey10
- Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics10
- African Archaeological Review10
- American Antiquity10
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry10
- Explorations in Economic History10
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology10
- Medical Anthropology10
- Annals of Human Biology10
- Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity10
- Science As Culture10
- Social Epistemology10
- Archaeometry10
68 China Journal9
- Social Anthropology9
- Eurasian Geography and Economics9
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs9
- Africa Spectrum9
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly9
- Pacific Review9
- Business History9
- Journal of Archaeological Research9
- Journal of Field Archaeology9
- Foundations of Science9
- Geoarchaeology-An International Journal9
- Archaeological Prospection9
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science9
- Critical Asian Studies9
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology9
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute9
- Latin American Politics and Society9
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly9
- Race & Class9
88 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies8
- Field Methods8
- Journal of Modern African Studies8
- Nexus Network Journal8
- Anthropology & Medicine8
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies8
- Review of African Political Economy8
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences8
- European Journal of Archaeology8
- China Information8
- Journal of Asian Public Policy8
- Journal of Philosophy of Education8
- Past & Present8
- Planning Perspectives8
- Environmental Archaeology8
- American Historical Review8
- Biosemiotics8
105 Critique of Anthropology7
- Cultural Studies7
- Enterprise & Society7
- History of Political Economy7
- Intelligence and National Security7
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies7
- Latin American Perspectives7
- Middle East Critique7
- Anthropological Theory7
- Asian Survey7
- Postcolonial Studies7
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology7
- European Review of Economic History7
- Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology7
- Nanoethics7
- Mediterranean Politics7
- New Genetics and Society7
- Bulletin of Latin American Research7
- Journal of Modern Italian Studies7
- Journal of Social Archaeology7
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought7
- Levant7
- Lithic Technology7
- World Archaeology7
- Archaeological Dialogues7
- Asian Studies Review7
- Australian Archaeology7
- History and Theory7
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal7
- Isis7
135 East European Politics and Societies6
- Ethnos6
- Journal of Historical Geography6
- Journal of Southern African Studies6
- Management & Organizational History6
- Modern China6
- Pacific Affairs6
- Public Culture6
- Journal of the American Oriental Society6
- Labor History6
- Trabajos de Prehistoria6
- American Journal of Archaeology6
- Archaeology in Oceania6
- Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa6
- Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte6
- History of the Human Sciences6
- International Journal of the History of Sport6
- Comparative Studies in Society and History6
- Contemporary South Asia6
- Ethnography6
- Ethos6
- International Journal of Middle East Studies6
- Journal of Baltic Studies6
- Journal of Eastern African Studies6
- Journal of Palestine Studies6
- Africa6
- African Studies Review6
- Middle East Policy6
- Anthropologie6
- Oceania6
- Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology6
- Business History Review6
- South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies6
- Latin American Antiquity6
- Engineering Studies6
- Osiris6
- Journal of Global History6
- Rethinking History6
- Ancient Mesoamerica6
- Foundations of Chemistry6
175 Contemporary Southeast Asia5
- European Review5
- Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology5
- Israel Affairs5
- Journal of Latin American Studies5
- Journal of the History of the Neurosciences5
- African Studies5
- Anthropologischer Anzeiger5
- Journal of Material Culture5
- Slavery & Abolition5
- Social Science History5
- Journal of the History of Biology5
- South East Asia Research5
- Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University5
- Modern Intellectual History5
- Norwegian Archaeological Review5
- Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology5
- Environmental History5
- Estudios Atacamenos5
- HAHR-Hispanic American Historical Review5
- Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos5
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences5
- History5
- History and Technology5
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing5
- Centaurus5
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