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Journal of Pacific Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by New Zealand Archaeological Association.
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ISSN 1179-4704Verify ISSN ↗1179-4712Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: New Zealand Archaeological Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 72 / 462 | 84th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 68 / 388 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2021–2022), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Pacific Archaeology is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 72 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 68 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Pacific 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.403, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Pacific Archaeology is published by New Zealand Archaeological Association. Its print ISSN is 1179-4704 and its online ISSN is 1179-4712.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Pacific Archaeology has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Journal of Pacific Archaeology published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 22. 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 45 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from New Zealand (44.3%), United States (28%) and Australia (19.6%).
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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