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Antiquity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0003-598XVerify ISSN ↗1745-1744Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 7 / 175 | 96th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 27 / 388 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1927–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Antiquity is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 7 of 175) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 27 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Antiquity is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.871, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Antiquity is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0003-598X and its online ISSN is 1745-1744.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Antiquity has an h-index of 127 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Antiquity published 228 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 268. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (16.2%), United States (11.1%) and Italy (7.7%).
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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