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Hunter Gatherer Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1). Published by Liverpool University Press.
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ISSN 2056-3264Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 121 / 462 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Archeology | 115 / 388 | 70th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 237 / 536 | 55th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 604 / 736 | 18th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2016), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Hunter Gatherer Research is Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 121 of 462), Q2 in Archeology (rank 115 of 388) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 237 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Hunter Gatherer Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2, 73rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.143, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Hunter Gatherer Research is published by Liverpool University Press. Its ISSN is 2056-3264.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hunter Gatherer Research has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Hunter Gatherer Research published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 36. 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 76 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (17%), United Kingdom (13.3%) and Japan (8.3%).
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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