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Journal of African Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Nijhoff.
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ISSN 1612-1651Verify ISSN ↗2191-5784Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 75 / 697 | 89th | Q1 |
| History | 246 / 1936 | 87th | Q1 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 95 / 462 | 79th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 90 / 388 | 76th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 349 / 1434 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of African Archaeology is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 75 of 697), Q1 in History (rank 246 of 1936) and Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 95 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of African 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 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.404, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
Journal of African Archaeology is published by Brill Nijhoff. Its print ISSN is 1612-1651 and its online ISSN is 2191-5784.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of African Archaeology has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Journal of African Archaeology published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 18. 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 69 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Poland (12.9%), South Africa (10.6%) and United Kingdom (10.3%).
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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