Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Archeology journal rankings 2019
69 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Archeology has 69 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Heritage & Society, International Journal of Heritage Studies, and Trabajos de Prehistoria.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
69 ranked journals
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Heritage & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 1.08 0.04 up from 2018 | 35 | 11% | — | ||
2International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 1.70 0.09 up from 2018 | 263 | 36% | — | ||
3Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 3.37Q1 | 1.81 0.98 up from 2018 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
4Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 3.51 0.76 down from 2018 | 399 | 53% | $4,040 | ||
5American Journal of ArchaeologyArchaeological Institute of America · United States | 3.01Q1 | 1.14 0.30 up from 2018 | 101 | 67% | — | ||
6Journal of Mediterranean ArchaeologySheffield Academic Press · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 0.67 0.23 up from 2018 | 35 | 8% | — | ||
7Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.70Q1 | 3.30 0.67 up from 2018 | 498 | 31% | $3,380 | ||
8Heritage ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 2.32 0.41 down from 2018 | 168 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
9American Journal of Physical AnthropologyWiley · United States | 2.13Q1 | 3.11 0.58 down from 2018 | 631 | 33% | $4,200 | ||
10Journal of Community Archaeology & HeritageTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 0.76 0.48 down from 2018 | 68 | 26% | — | ||
11Archaeological and Anthropological SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.80Q1 | 2.09 0.17 up from 2018 | 443 | 48% | $3,990 | ||
12Public ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 0.67 0.07 up from 2018 | 41 | 47% | — | ||
13Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable DevelopmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 0.91 0.31 down from 2018 | 89 | 32% | — | ||
14STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.71 0.27 up from 2018 | 61 | 100% | $969 | ||
15ArchaeometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 1.74 0.40 up from 2018 | 220 | 47% | $3,350 | ||
16International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 1.65 0.24 down from 2018 | 184 | 38% | $4,220 | ||
17Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 1.53Q1 | 1.00 0.19 up from 2018 | 45 | 13% | — | ||
18Journal of Ancient Near Eastern HistoryDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 0.08 0.54 down from 2018 | 37 | 100% | $2,712 | ||
19Praehistorische ZeitschriftDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.47Q2 | 0.37 0.08 up from 2018 | 50 | 15% | $2,712 | ||
20International Journal of PaleopathologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 1.84 0.36 down from 2018 | 197 | 33% | $2,710 | ||
21Journal of Forensic Dental SciencesOAMedknow · India | 1.29Q2 | 0.71 0.72 down from 2018 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
22Oxford Journal of ArchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 1.13 0.37 up from 2018 | 70 | 41% | $2,840 | ||
23Journal of Contemporary ArchaeologyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.74 0.44 up from 2018 | 75 | 9% | — | ||
24The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.49 0.33 down from 2018 | 109 | 22% | — | ||
25LevantRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 0.91 0.32 down from 2018 | 77 | 46% | — | ||
26PaléorientFrance | 1.06Q2 | 1.25 0.50 up from 2018 | 53 | 87% | — | ||
27Journal of Architecture and UrbanismOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 1.04Q2 | 0.86 0.23 up from 2018 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
28International Journal of Legal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 2.23 0.11 down from 2018 | 647 | 25% | $4,590 | ||
29Arabian archaeology and epigraphyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.06 0.20 down from 2018 | 50 | 18% | $2,820 | ||
30HeritageOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.97Q2 | 1.06no 2018 value | 35 | 100% | $1,930 | — | |
31Journal of Maritime ArchaeologySpringer Nature · United States | 0.97Q2 | 0.76 0.18 up from 2018 | 70 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
32Journal of Heritage ManagementSAGE Publishing · India | 0.95Q2 | 0.15 0.12 down from 2018 | 41 | 7% | $3,400 | ||
33The International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 0.71 0.23 up from 2018 | 113 | 13% | $2,500 | ||
34Forensic Sciences ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.84 0.91 up from 2018 | 96 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
35Archaeology InternationalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 0.73 0.30 up from 2018 | 70 | — | — | ||
36Studies in ConservationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q3 | 0.44 0.35 down from 2018 | 301 | 26% | — | ||
37HOMOOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.81Q3 | 0.93 0.14 down from 2018 | 108 | 15% | $1,800 | ||
38Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de ParisOASpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.80Q3 | 0.57 0.27 down from 2018 | 83 | 60% | — | ||
39Legal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.77Q3 | 1.56 0.12 up from 2018 | 289 | 9% | $3,540 | ||
40AP Online Journal in Public ArchaeologyOAJAS Arqueología S.L.U. · Spain | 0.77Q3 | 0.51 0.23 up from 2018 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
41Time and MindTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 0.54 0.22 up from 2018 | 59 | 23% | — | ||
42AnthropozoologicaFrance | 0.72Q3 | 0.50 0.03 up from 2018 | 53 | 58% | — | ||
43The Annual of the British School at AthensCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.42 0.09 up from 2018 | 41 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
44International Journal of Cultural PropertyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 0.30 0.14 down from 2018 | 99 | 45% | $3,550 | ||
45Australian Journal of Forensic SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.68Q3 | 0.99 0.39 down from 2018 | 224 | 23% | — | ||
46Anthropological ScienceOAJapan | 0.67Q3 | 0.55 0.11 down from 2018 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
47Landscape JournalUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 0.65Q3 | 0.48 0.07 up from 2018 | 81 | 12% | — | ||
48Forensic Science Medicine and PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.60Q3 | 1.12 0.37 down from 2018 | 327 | 25% | $2,790 | ||
49Conservation and Management of Archaeological SitesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.91 0.15 up from 2018 | 69 | 25% | — | ||
50Anthropologischer AnzeigerE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.55Q3 | 0.72 0.16 up from 2018 | 119 | 17% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Archeology highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics150
- Philosophy90
- Archeology69
- Literature and Literary Theory63
- Music31
- History and Philosophy of Science28
- Museology24
- Conservation23
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts22
- History6
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 59,444 +9.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.91 +8.8% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 |
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| 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.