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Acta Archaeologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0065-101XVerify ISSN ↗1600-0390Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 126 / 462 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Archeology | 120 / 388 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–2024 (also 2000–2020), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Acta Archaeologica is Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 126 of 462) and Q2 in Archeology (rank 120 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Archaeologica is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.222, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
Acta Archaeologica is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0065-101X and its online ISSN is 1600-0390.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Archaeologica has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #163 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Acta Archaeologica published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 39. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Denmark (20.7%), Sweden (12.1%) and Spain (9.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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