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Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1556-1828Verify ISSN ↗1556-4894Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 33 / 1936 | 98th | Q1 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 24 / 462 | 94th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 24 / 388 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 174 / 491 | 64th | Q2 |
| Oceanography | 66 / 154 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology is Q1 in History (rank 33 of 1936), Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 24 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 24 of 388), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Island and Coastal 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.658, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1556-1828 and its online ISSN is 1556-4894.
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 Island and Coastal Archaeology has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 50. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.6%), Australia (8.3%) and Spain (7.1%).
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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