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Journal of Field Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Maney Publishing.
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ISSN 0093-4690Verify ISSN ↗2042-4582Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 38 / 462 | 91st | Q1 |
| Archeology | 36 / 388 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1974–1999), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Field Archaeology is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 38 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 36 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Field 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.753, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
Journal of Field Archaeology is published by Maney Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0093-4690 and its online ISSN is 2042-4582.
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.
Journal of Field Archaeology has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 1.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Journal of Field Archaeology published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 58. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.2%), United Kingdom (7.5%) and Poland (7.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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