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Archives of Natural History is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI/SCIE/SSCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 868 / 1936 | 55th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 378 / 536 | 29th | Q3 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 243 / 253 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994, 1991–1992, 1985–1989, 1981–1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Archives of Natural History is Q2 in History (rank 868 of 1936), Q3 in Anthropology (rank 378 of 536) and Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 243 of 253), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Natural History is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Archives of Natural History is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 0260-9541 and its online ISSN is 1755-6260.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archives of Natural History has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #808 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Archives of Natural History published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 72. 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 65 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (41.3%), United States (14.6%) and Canada (6.2%).
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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