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American Journal of Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0002-9114Verify ISSN ↗1939-828XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 55 / 462 | 88th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 54 / 388 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
American Journal of Archaeology is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 55 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 54 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Archaeology 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.455, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
American Journal of Archaeology is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0002-9114 and its online ISSN is 1939-828X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Archaeology has an h-index of 111 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #160 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
American Journal of Archaeology published 88 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 126. 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 61 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.6%), United Kingdom (8.7%) and Italy (8.7%).
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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