Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Archeology journal rankings 2009
43 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Archeology has 43 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Journal of Cultural Heritage, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and International Journal of Cultural Property.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
43 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.80Q1 | 1.67 0.41 up from 2008 | 182 | 5% | $3,380 | ||
2American Journal of Physical AnthropologyWiley · United States | 2.23Q1 | 2.94 0.19 up from 2008 | 486 | 13% | $4,200 | ||
3International Journal of Cultural PropertyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 0.60 0.20 up from 2008 | 107 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
4Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 2.04 0.11 down from 2008 | 685 | 12% | $4,040 | ||
5ArchaeometryWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.54 0.18 down from 2008 | 203 | 11% | $3,350 | ||
6Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 0.53 0.17 down from 2008 | 62 | 8% | — | ||
7Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 1.94Q1 | 0.38 0.23 down from 2008 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
8Journal of Mediterranean ArchaeologySheffield Academic Press · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 0.39 0.20 down from 2008 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
9Arabian archaeology and epigraphyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 0.73 0.35 up from 2008 | 47 | 6% | $2,820 | ||
10International Journal of Legal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.29Q1 | 3.17 0.57 up from 2008 | 228 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
11International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 0.35 0.01 down from 2008 | 98 | 7% | — | ||
12Anthropological ScienceOAJapan | 1.13Q2 | 1.40 0.26 up from 2008 | 82 | 92% | — | ||
13HOMOOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 1.09 0.22 down from 2008 | 70 | 1% | $1,800 | ||
14The International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.02Q2 | 0.32 0.03 up from 2008 | 224 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
15LevantRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 0.19 0.23 down from 2008 | 41 | 13% | — | ||
16Public ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 0.68 0.49 up from 2008 | 117 | 17% | — | ||
17Oxford Journal of ArchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 0.83 0.11 up from 2008 | 70 | 17% | $2,840 | ||
18Journal of Maritime ArchaeologySpringer Nature · United States | 0.82Q2 | 0.35 0.08 down from 2008 | 30 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
19American Journal of ArchaeologyArchaeological Institute of America · United States | 0.76Q2 | 0.21 0.13 down from 2008 | 177 | 45% | — | ||
20ComplutumOAServicio de Publicaciones · Spain | 0.76Q2 | 0.00 0.18 down from 2008 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
21International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 0.81 0.11 up from 2008 | 184 | 12% | $4,220 | ||
22Pyrenae: revista de prehistòria i antiguitat de la Mediterrània OccidentalPublisher not listed | 0.62Q2 | 0.13 0.02 down from 2008 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
23Landscape JournalUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 0.59Q3 | 0.46 0.40 up from 2008 | 93 | 8% | — | ||
24Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival MaterialDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.54Q3 | 0.38 0.23 up from 2008 | 56 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
25The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.15 0.15 up from 2008 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
26Studies in ConservationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.31 0.11 down from 2008 | 170 | 9% | — | ||
27Legal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.49Q3 | 1.30 0.33 up from 2008 | 195 | 4% | $3,540 | ||
28PaléorientFrance | 0.45Q3 | 0.30 0.06 down from 2008 | 57 | 21% | — | ||
29Canadian Society of Forensic Science JournalTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.44Q3 | 0.65 0.39 up from 2008 | 45 | 5% | — | ||
30Forensic Science Medicine and PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.72 0.33 up from 2008 | 148 | 25% | $2,790 | ||
31Australian Journal of Forensic SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.40Q3 | 0.58 0.29 up from 2008 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
32Documenta PraehistoricaOALjubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts · Slovenia | 0.39Q3 | 0.71 0.22 up from 2008 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
33Internet ArchaeologyOAUniversity of York · United Kingdom | 0.38Q3 | 0.26no change | 46 | 70% | $1,103 | ||
34The Annual of the British School at AthensCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.33Q4 | 0.17 0.05 up from 2008 | 36 | 21% | $3,550 | ||
35Praehistorische ZeitschriftDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.32Q4 | 0.09 0.19 down from 2008 | 43 | 4% | $2,712 | ||
36Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de ParisOASpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.32Q4 | 0.04 0.29 down from 2008 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
37Anthropologischer AnzeigerE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.23Q4 | 0.39 0.13 up from 2008 | 121 | 0% | — | ||
38MéditerranéePresses Universitaires de Provence · France | 0.22Q4 | 0.14 0.02 down from 2008 | 128 | 98% | — | ||
39Journal of Architecture and UrbanismOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 0.21Q4 | 0.47 0.43 up from 2008 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
40Conservation and Management of Archaeological SitesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.03 0.11 down from 2008 | 74 | 15% | — | ||
41Archaeology InternationalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 0.13Q4 | 0.06no change | 47 | — | — | ||
42Archaeological ReportsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.02 0.02 down from 2008 | 103 | 2% | $3,550 | ||
43Conservar PatrimónioOAAssociação Profissional de Conservadores - Restauradores de Portugal · Portugal | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 44 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Archeology highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics91
- Philosophy69
- Archeology43
- Literature and Literary Theory36
- History and Philosophy of Science24
- Music20
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts17
- Conservation15
- Museology11
- History8
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 additional Archeology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 43
- Window papers (baseline)
- 43,255 +20.0% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.62 -5.1% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.