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Historical Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0440-9213Verify ISSN ↗2328-1103Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 263 / 1936 | 86th | Q1 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 99 / 462 | 78th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 94 / 388 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977 (also 1981, 1984, 1987, 1999–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Historical Archaeology is Q1 in History (rank 263 of 1936), Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 99 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 94 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Historical 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.373, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,190 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.
Historical Archaeology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0440-9213 and its online ISSN is 2328-1103.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Historical Archaeology has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Historical Archaeology published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 90. 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 83 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (73.5%), United Kingdom (8.2%) and Finland (1.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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