Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Archeology journal rankings 2024
72 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Archeology has 72 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2023 to 0.72, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are International Journal of Heritage Studies, The Historic Environment Policy & Practice, and Built Heritage.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 2.69 0.13 up from 2023 | 216 | 58% | — | ||
2The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 2.83 0.83 down from 2023 | 66 | 56% | — | ||
3Built HeritageOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 2.41Q1 | 2.67 0.87 up from 2023 | 76 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Heritage ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 4.56 1.41 up from 2023 | 618 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
5Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.13Q1 | 3.66 0.34 down from 2023 | 496 | 52% | $3,380 | ||
6Journal of Urban ArchaeologyBrepols · Belgium | 1.97Q1 | 2.02 0.68 up from 2023 | 63 | 19% | — | ||
7Archaeological and Anthropological SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.81Q1 | 2.03 0.43 down from 2023 | 648 | 58% | $3,990 | ||
8Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.81 0.49 down from 2023 | 346 | 63% | $4,040 | ||
9Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable DevelopmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.80 0.15 up from 2023 | 213 | 33% | — | ||
10HeritageOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.66Q1 | 2.54 0.11 down from 2023 | 891 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
11Heritage & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 1.04 0.04 up from 2023 | 71 | 70% | — | ||
12American Journal of Physical AnthropologyWiley · United States | 1.38Q1 | —no 2023 value | 137 | — | $4,200 | ||
13LevantRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.45 0.63 up from 2023 | 79 | 67% | — | ||
14Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 1.32Q1 | 0.63 0.59 down from 2023 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
15Journal of Maritime ArchaeologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.19 0.40 up from 2023 | 97 | 47% | $3,290 | ||
16Arabian archaeology and epigraphyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 0.86 0.17 up from 2023 | 65 | 68% | $2,820 | ||
17Journal of Community Archaeology & HeritageTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 0.84 0.24 up from 2023 | 42 | 20% | — | ||
18International Journal of PaleopathologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.62 0.31 down from 2023 | 164 | 68% | $2,710 | ||
19Forensic SciencesOASwitzerland | 1.28Q2 | 2.18 0.13 down from 2023 | 123 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
20ArchaeometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.60 0.02 up from 2023 | 250 | 62% | $3,350 | ||
21Journal of Ancient Near Eastern HistoryDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.17Q2 | 0.67 0.04 up from 2023 | 34 | 65% | $2,712 | ||
22Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 1.14Q2 | 0.73 0.33 down from 2023 | 43 | 27% | — | ||
23American Journal of ArchaeologyArchaeological Institute of America · United States | 1.12Q2 | 0.63 1.04 down from 2023 | 116 | 16% | — | ||
24The International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.11Q2 | 0.70 0.40 up from 2023 | 110 | 29% | $2,500 | ||
25Praehistorische ZeitschriftDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 0.88 0.04 up from 2023 | 118 | 25% | $2,712 | ||
26International Journal of Legal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 2.75 0.08 up from 2023 | 633 | 57% | $4,590 | ||
27Childhood in the PastTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 0.88 0.28 down from 2023 | 32 | 19% | — | ||
28Studies in ConservationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.09 0.14 up from 2023 | 190 | 35% | — | ||
29Documenta PraehistoricaOALjubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts · Slovenia | 0.92Q2 | 0.94 0.23 up from 2023 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
30International Journal of Cultural PropertyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 0.80 0.17 up from 2023 | 98 | 81% | $3,550 | ||
31Forensic Sciences ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 2.14 0.22 down from 2023 | 158 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
32Journal of Contemporary ArchaeologyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 0.46 0.45 down from 2023 | 51 | 7% | — | ||
33International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.04 0.32 down from 2023 | 303 | 70% | $4,220 | ||
34Oxford Journal of ArchaeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 0.82 0.42 down from 2023 | 65 | 68% | $2,840 | ||
35Egyptian Journal of Forensic SciencesOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.79Q2 | 1.78 0.18 down from 2023 | 157 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
36Journal of Islamic ArchaeologyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 0.48 0.20 up from 2023 | 43 | 50% | — | ||
37Journal of Heritage ManagementSAGE Publishing · India | 0.71Q3 | 0.45 0.03 up from 2023 | 38 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
38Journal of Architecture and UrbanismOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 0.67Q3 | 1.16 0.19 down from 2023 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
39Legal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.67Q3 | 1.57 0.10 up from 2023 | 398 | 36% | $3,540 | ||
40ArchaeofaunaOAAutonomous University of Madrid · Spain | 0.66Q3 | 0.52 0.75 down from 2023 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
41Forensic Science Medicine and PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.50 0.27 down from 2023 | 403 | 48% | $2,790 | ||
42ComplutumOAServicio de Publicaciones · Spain | 0.63Q3 | 0.43 0.06 down from 2023 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
43Australian Journal of Forensic SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.63Q3 | 1.34 0.34 up from 2023 | 147 | 29% | — | ||
44AnthropozoologicaFrance | 0.61Q3 | 0.68 0.25 down from 2023 | 42 | 25% | — | ||
45Conservation and Management of Archaeological SitesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.94 0.58 up from 2023 | 31 | 37% | — | ||
46Forensic Science International ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.60Q3 | 1.34 0.39 down from 2023 | 172 | 100% | $1,090 | ||
47Internet ArchaeologyOAUniversity of York · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.72 0.48 down from 2023 | 150 | 100% | $1,103 | ||
48The Annual of the British School at AthensCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.50 0.75 down from 2023 | 47 | 67% | $3,550 | ||
49PaléorientFrance | 0.54Q3 | 0.59 0.26 up from 2023 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Mediterranean ArchaeologySheffield Academic Press · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 0.68 0.37 down from 2023 | 32 | 11% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Archeology highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics161
- Philosophy98
- Literature and Literary Theory76
- Archeology72
- Music31
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Museology25
- Conservation22
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts19
- History7
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
14 additional Archeology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 72
- Window papers (baseline)
- 56,045 -9.1% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.72 -11.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.