Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Archeology journal rankings 2021
69 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Archeology has 69 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.18 on 2020 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are International Journal of Heritage Studies, Heritage Science, and Journal of African Archaeology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 2.23 0.37 up from 2020 | 235 | 42% | — | ||
2Heritage ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.31 0.43 up from 2020 | 300 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
3Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 2.42Q1 | 1.26 0.66 down from 2020 | 40 | 39% | — | ||
4Journal of Contemporary ArchaeologyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 2.37 1.04 up from 2020 | 67 | 11% | — | ||
5Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.34Q1 | 3.60 0.60 up from 2020 | 548 | 45% | $3,380 | ||
6Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.49 0.59 down from 2020 | 408 | 55% | $4,040 | ||
7STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.29 1.50 up from 2020 | 33 | 100% | $969 | ||
8The Annual of the British School at AthensCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 1.57 1.10 up from 2020 | 44 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
9Journal of Forensic Dental SciencesOAMedknow · India | 1.95Q1 | 2.31 1.22 up from 2020 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
10Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable DevelopmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 1.76 0.32 up from 2020 | 122 | 31% | — | ||
11Heritage & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 1.10 0.62 up from 2020 | 32 | 29% | — | ||
12Forensic Science International ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 3.82 2.78 up from 2020 | 154 | 100% | $1,090 | ||
13Archaeological and Anthropological SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 2.60 0.14 up from 2020 | 635 | 53% | $3,990 | ||
14American Journal of Physical AnthropologyWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.78 0.21 down from 2020 | 640 | 32% | $4,200 | ||
15Forensic Sciences ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.77 0.49 up from 2020 | 135 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16The International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.61Q1 | 0.89 0.46 down from 2020 | 94 | 13% | $2,500 | ||
17HeritageOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.59Q1 | 2.36 0.97 up from 2020 | 292 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
18Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 1.57Q1 | 0.90 0.56 down from 2020 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
19Bioarchaeology InternationalUnited States | 1.42Q2 | 1.59 0.33 down from 2020 | 37 | 36% | — | ||
20American Journal of ArchaeologyArchaeological Institute of America · United States | 1.41Q2 | 0.86 0.31 down from 2020 | 107 | 49% | — | ||
21ArchaeometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 2.15 0.29 up from 2020 | 284 | 38% | $3,350 | ||
22Forensic AnthropologyUnited States | 1.31Q2 | 1.28no change | 80 | 7% | — | ||
23Conservation and Management of Archaeological SitesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 0.81 0.69 down from 2020 | 44 | 47% | — | ||
24Journal of Maritime ArchaeologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.18Q2 | 0.60 0.86 down from 2020 | 90 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
25Journal of Community Archaeology & HeritageTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 0.94 0.20 up from 2020 | 70 | 33% | — | ||
26Journal of Islamic ArchaeologyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 0.77 0.30 up from 2020 | 35 | 60% | — | ||
27International Journal of PaleopathologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 1.80no change | 181 | 55% | $2,710 | ||
28The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 0.98 0.23 down from 2020 | 82 | 52% | — | ||
29International Journal of Legal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 3.30 0.75 up from 2020 | 678 | 51% | $4,590 | ||
30International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 1.41 0.01 up from 2020 | 285 | 35% | $4,220 | ||
31Built HeritageOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.03Q2 | 0.91 0.51 up from 2020 | 79 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
32Time and MindTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 0.73 0.23 down from 2020 | 61 | 36% | — | ||
33ComplutumOAServicio de Publicaciones · Spain | 0.92Q2 | 0.53 0.08 up from 2020 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
34LevantRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.05 0.23 down from 2020 | 66 | 38% | — | ||
35Legal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.81Q2 | 2.23 0.57 up from 2020 | 295 | 30% | $3,540 | ||
36Journal of Architecture and UrbanismOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 0.80Q3 | 0.68 0.07 down from 2020 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
37Studies in ConservationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.90 0.14 up from 2020 | 309 | 34% | — | ||
38Arabian archaeology and epigraphyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 1.00 0.05 down from 2020 | 59 | 17% | $2,820 | ||
39Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival MaterialDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.69Q3 | 0.38 0.09 up from 2020 | 41 | 41% | $0 listed | ||
40Praehistorische ZeitschriftDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.67Q3 | 0.71 0.02 down from 2020 | 68 | 50% | $2,712 | ||
41Forensic Science Medicine and PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.66Q3 | 1.86 0.34 up from 2020 | 370 | 42% | $2,790 | ||
42International Journal of Cultural PropertyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.56 0.11 down from 2020 | 99 | 61% | $3,550 | ||
43Australian Journal of Forensic SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.60Q3 | 1.29 0.15 up from 2020 | 270 | 32% | — | ||
44PaléorientFrance | 0.57Q3 | 0.54 0.14 down from 2020 | 73 | 97% | — | ||
45Egyptian Journal of Forensic SciencesOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.56Q3 | 1.39 0.33 up from 2020 | 174 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
46AnthropozoologicaFrance | 0.55Q3 | 0.62 0.05 up from 2020 | 56 | 82% | — | ||
47Oxford Journal of ArchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.67 0.31 down from 2020 | 63 | 38% | $2,840 | ||
48HOMOOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.54Q3 | 0.64 0.13 down from 2020 | 82 | 11% | $1,800 | ||
49Internet ArchaeologyOAUniversity of York · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.74 0.43 up from 2020 | 113 | 100% | $1,103 | ||
50Anthropologischer AnzeigerE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.47Q3 | 0.71 0.14 down from 2020 | 129 | 15% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Archeology highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics154
- Philosophy94
- Archeology69
- Literature and Literary Theory64
- Music32
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts24
- Conservation23
- Museology23
- History7
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Archeology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 61,631 +5.7% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.814 -7.3% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.