Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Archeology journal rankings 2023
72 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Archeology has 72 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are International Journal of Heritage Studies, Journal of Cultural Heritage, and The Historic Environment Policy & Practice.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
72 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 2.56 0.29 up from 2022 | 185 | 50% | — | ||
2Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.57Q1 | 4.00 0.28 up from 2022 | 458 | 54% | $3,380 | ||
3The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 3.66 1.92 up from 2022 | 70 | 44% | — | ||
4Heritage ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.16 0.17 up from 2022 | 476 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
5Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 2.06Q1 | 1.06 0.41 down from 2022 | 47 | 58% | — | ||
6American Journal of ArchaeologyArchaeological Institute of America · United States | 2.02Q1 | 1.67 0.65 up from 2022 | 96 | 30% | — | ||
7Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.30 0.03 up from 2022 | 385 | 53% | $4,040 | ||
8HeritageOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.80Q1 | 2.66 0.53 up from 2022 | 585 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
9Journal of Community Archaeology & HeritageTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 0.60 0.33 down from 2022 | 59 | 70% | — | ||
10Archaeological and Anthropological SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 2.46 0.05 down from 2022 | 735 | 68% | $3,990 | ||
11Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable DevelopmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 1.65 0.21 up from 2022 | 203 | 38% | — | ||
12Built HeritageOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.65Q1 | 1.81 0.03 up from 2022 | 68 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Heritage & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 1.00 0.42 up from 2022 | 44 | 46% | — | ||
14American Journal of Physical AnthropologyWiley · United States | 1.62Q1 | 2.93 0.10 up from 2022 | 341 | — | $4,200 | ||
15Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 1.50Q1 | 1.22 0.18 down from 2022 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
16ArchaeometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 1.59 0.18 down from 2022 | 287 | 71% | $3,350 | ||
17Journal of Ancient Near Eastern HistoryDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 0.63 0.23 up from 2022 | 37 | 67% | $2,712 | ||
18Forensic SciencesOASwitzerland | 1.38Q1 | 2.30 0.96 up from 2022 | 80 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
19The Annual of the British School at AthensCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.25 0.70 up from 2022 | 46 | 80% | $3,550 | ||
20Arabian archaeology and epigraphyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 0.69 0.03 down from 2022 | 67 | 43% | $2,820 | ||
21International Journal of PaleopathologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 1.94 0.34 up from 2022 | 162 | 50% | $2,710 | ||
22Oxford Journal of ArchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 1.23 0.23 up from 2022 | 68 | 81% | $2,840 | ||
23International Journal of Legal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 2.67 0.26 down from 2022 | 662 | 59% | $4,590 | ||
24Forensic Sciences ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 2.36 0.39 up from 2022 | 141 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25Journal of Maritime ArchaeologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.04Q2 | 0.79 0.36 up from 2022 | 93 | 49% | $3,290 | ||
26Forensic Science International ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 1.74 1.43 down from 2022 | 231 | 100% | $1,090 | ||
27Childhood in the PastTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.16 0.60 up from 2022 | 35 | 38% | — | ||
28Journal of Mediterranean ArchaeologySheffield Academic Press · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.05 0.06 down from 2022 | 30 | 33% | — | ||
29Journal of Urban ArchaeologyBrepols · Belgium | 0.99Q2 | 1.34 0.08 down from 2022 | 63 | 19% | — | ||
30International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.36 0.17 up from 2022 | 320 | 62% | $4,220 | ||
31ComplutumOAServicio de Publicaciones · Spain | 0.93Q2 | 0.49 0.08 up from 2022 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
32Praehistorische ZeitschriftDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.92Q2 | 0.83 0.18 up from 2022 | 108 | 30% | $2,712 | ||
33Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival MaterialDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.86Q2 | 0.76 0.32 up from 2022 | 38 | 27% | $0 listed | ||
34Egyptian Journal of Forensic SciencesOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.84Q2 | 1.96 0.35 up from 2022 | 140 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
35The International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.30 0.11 down from 2022 | 92 | 33% | $2,500 | ||
36LevantRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 0.82 0.10 down from 2022 | 64 | 38% | — | ||
37Time and MindTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.79Q3 | 0.75 0.45 down from 2022 | 58 | 43% | — | ||
38Journal of Architecture and UrbanismOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 0.79Q3 | 1.35 0.13 up from 2022 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
39Forensic AnthropologyUnited States | 0.78Q3 | 0.79 0.44 down from 2022 | 98 | 11% | — | ||
40Studies in ConservationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.95 0.13 up from 2022 | 264 | 33% | — | ||
41Journal of Islamic ArchaeologyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 0.28 0.08 up from 2022 | 48 | 54% | — | ||
42Forensic Science Medicine and PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.72Q3 | 1.77 0.13 down from 2022 | 343 | 45% | $2,790 | ||
43HOMOOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.71Q3 | 1.13 0.40 up from 2022 | 45 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
44Documenta PraehistoricaOALjubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts · Slovenia | 0.71Q3 | 0.71 0.36 down from 2022 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
45Internet ArchaeologyOAUniversity of York · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.20 0.58 up from 2022 | 123 | 100% | $1,103 | ||
46Legal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.68Q3 | 1.47 0.48 down from 2022 | 374 | 41% | $3,540 | ||
47Australian Journal of Forensic SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.66Q3 | 1.00 0.47 down from 2022 | 179 | 50% | — | ||
48Bioarchaeology InternationalUnited States | 0.63Q3 | 0.89 0.11 up from 2022 | 54 | 22% | — | ||
49International Journal of Cultural PropertyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.63 0.13 down from 2022 | 111 | 79% | $3,550 | ||
50Journal of Heritage ManagementSAGE Publishing · India | 0.60Q3 | 0.42 0.04 down from 2022 | 38 | 13% | $3,400 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Archeology highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics164
- Philosophy95
- Literature and Literary Theory73
- Archeology72
- Music33
- History and Philosophy of Science28
- Conservation23
- Museology23
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts20
- History5
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
15 additional Archeology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 72
- Window papers (baseline)
- 57,924 -5.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.810 -18.1% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.