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Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Mega Publishing House.
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ISSN 2360-266XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mega Publishing House
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 36 / 196 | 81st | Q1 |
| History | 574 / 1936 | 70th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 189 / 462 | 59th | Q2 |
| Archeology | 179 / 388 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology is Q1 in Classics (rank 36 of 196), Q2 in History (rank 574 of 1936) and Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 189 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.136, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology is published by Mega Publishing House. Its ISSN is 2360-266X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 75. 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 88 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from Romania (29%), Türkiye (17%) and Spain (13.1%).
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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