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Journal of World Prehistory is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6). Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0892-7537Verify ISSN ↗1573-7802Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 5 / 462 | 99th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 5 / 388 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2025 (also 1987–2006), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Journal of World Prehistory is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 5 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 5 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of World Prehistory is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1, 99th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.492, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of World Prehistory is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0892-7537 and its online ISSN is 1573-7802.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of World Prehistory has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 2.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Journal of World Prehistory published 17 papers in 2025. 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 49 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22.5%), United States (13.6%) and Germany (8.6%).
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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