Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Archeology journal rankings 2008
42 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Archeology has 42 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.25. The top three are Trabajos de Prehistoria, International Journal of Cultural Property, and American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Arts and Humanities (13)
42 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2008. | Compare |
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1Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 4.05Q1 | 0.61 0.18 up from 2007 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
2International Journal of Cultural PropertyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 0.40 0.09 up from 2007 | 101 | 14% | $3,550 | ||
3American Journal of Physical AnthropologyWiley · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.74 0.15 up from 2007 | 519 | 9% | $4,200 | ||
4Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.15 0.21 up from 2007 | 608 | 6% | $4,040 | ||
5Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 1.89Q1 | 1.26 0.56 up from 2007 | 141 | 10% | $3,380 | ||
6Journal of Mediterranean ArchaeologySheffield Academic Press · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 0.59 0.06 down from 2007 | 65 | 11% | — | ||
7ArchaeometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.71 0.56 up from 2007 | 181 | 15% | $3,350 | ||
8Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 1.81Q1 | 0.70 0.39 up from 2007 | 65 | 11% | — | ||
9LevantRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 0.41no change | 49 | 7% | — | ||
10HOMOOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.27Q1 | 1.30 0.50 up from 2007 | 57 | 0% | $1,800 | ||
11The International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.25Q1 | 0.29 0.07 down from 2007 | 192 | 5% | $2,500 | ||
12ComplutumOAServicio de Publicaciones · Spain | 1.14Q2 | 0.18 0.12 up from 2007 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
13Oxford Journal of ArchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 0.72 0.11 up from 2007 | 70 | 21% | $2,840 | ||
14Arabian archaeology and epigraphyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 0.38 0.14 up from 2007 | 44 | 0% | $2,820 | ||
15International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 0.37 0.34 down from 2007 | 103 | 8% | — | ||
16Praehistorische ZeitschriftDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 0.28 0.14 up from 2007 | 35 | 5% | $2,712 | ||
17American Journal of ArchaeologyArchaeological Institute of America · United States | 0.95Q2 | 0.35 0.10 down from 2007 | 168 | 36% | — | ||
18International Journal of Legal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.86Q2 | 2.61 0.29 down from 2007 | 245 | 16% | $4,590 | ||
19Anthropological ScienceOAJapan | 0.84Q2 | 1.14no change | 90 | 85% | — | ||
20Studies in ConservationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 0.42 0.16 up from 2007 | 141 | 5% | — | ||
21International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 0.70 0.23 up from 2007 | 158 | 20% | $4,220 | ||
22Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival MaterialDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.60Q3 | 0.15 0.21 down from 2007 | 60 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
23Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de ParisOASpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.58Q3 | 0.32 0.19 down from 2007 | 49 | 92% | — | ||
24The Annual of the British School at AthensCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.12 0.05 up from 2007 | 42 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
25Legal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.53Q3 | 0.97 0.23 down from 2007 | 190 | 1% | $3,540 | ||
26PaléorientFrance | 0.49Q3 | 0.36 0.05 up from 2007 | 67 | 6% | — | ||
27MéditerranéePresses Universitaires de Provence · France | 0.37Q3 | 0.16 0.03 up from 2007 | 140 | 100% | — | ||
28Public ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.19 0.02 down from 2007 | 153 | 13% | — | ||
29Documenta PraehistoricaOALjubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts · Slovenia | 0.36Q3 | 0.49 0.14 up from 2007 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
30Internet ArchaeologyOAUniversity of York · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.27 0.04 up from 2007 | 44 | 94% | $1,103 | ||
31Forensic Science Medicine and PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.27Q3 | 0.39 0.03 up from 2007 | 157 | 8% | $2,790 | ||
32Conservation and Management of Archaeological SitesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.22Q3 | 0.13 0.05 up from 2007 | 66 | 15% | — | ||
33Archaeological ReportsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.04 0.09 down from 2007 | 56 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
34Pyrenae: revista de prehistòria i antiguitat de la Mediterrània OccidentalPublisher not listed | 0.20Q4 | 0.14 0.09 up from 2007 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
35Anthropologischer AnzeigerE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.20Q4 | 0.26 0.14 down from 2007 | 130 | 3% | — | ||
36Canadian Society of Forensic Science JournalTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.14Q4 | 0.26 0.06 down from 2007 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
37Landscape JournalUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.06 0.01 down from 2007 | 91 | 10% | — | ||
38Australian Journal of Forensic SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.11Q4 | 0.29 0.06 up from 2007 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
39Archaeology InternationalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.06 0.01 down from 2007 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
40Conservar PatrimónioOAAssociação Profissional de Conservadores - Restauradores de Portugal · Portugal | 0.08Q4 | 0.00no change | 33 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Architecture and UrbanismOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 0.00Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2007 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
41The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.04 down from 2007 | 54 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Archeology highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics90
- Philosophy68
- Archeology42
- Literature and Literary Theory37
- History and Philosophy of Science23
- Music20
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts16
- Conservation14
- Museology10
- History8
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 additional Archeology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 42
- Window papers (baseline)
- 40,334 +16.4% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.644 +29.4% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 34 | 35 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 35 | 40 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 47 | 49 | 54 | 55 | 59 | 62 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 70 | 69 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 70 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 28,150 | 29,351 | 31,180 | 32,606 | 33,452 | 34,638 | 36,035 | 38,276 | 40,334 | 43,255 | 45,189 | 47,029 | 47,777 | 48,865 | 50,224 | 51,529 | 54,215 | 56,281 | 58,325 | 59,444 | 60,956 | 61,631 | 61,122 | 57,924 | 56,045 | 56,052 | |
| Median OJR | 0.474 | 0.42 | 0.58 | 0.36 | 0.470 | 0.50 | 0.65 | 0.636 | 0.644 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.801 | 0.729 | 0.67 | 0.87 | 0.79 | 0.83 | 1.07 | 0.88 | 0.91 | 0.99 | 0.814 | 0.797 | 0.810 | 0.72 | 0.726 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.