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Archaeology in Oceania is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0728-4896Verify ISSN ↗1834-4453Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,240 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 44 / 462 | 90th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 41 / 388 | 89th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 98 / 536 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1966–1980), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Archaeology in Oceania is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 44 of 462), Q1 in Archeology (rank 41 of 388) and Q1 in Anthropology (rank 98 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Archaeology in Oceania 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.386, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,240 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.
Archaeology in Oceania is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0728-4896 and its online ISSN is 1834-4453.
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.
Archaeology in Oceania has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Archaeology in Oceania published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (48.1%), United States (15.3%) and New Zealand (13.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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