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Best Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) journals

691 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous). All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 173 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Computers in Human Behavior 22.6 99th Q1 SSCI A No
2 Human Relations 16.1 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
3 Journal of Business Ethics 15.9 99th Q1 SSCI A No
4 Journal of Consumer Research 13.9 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
5 Decision Support Systems 13.5 99th Q1 SCIE A* No
6 Administrative Science Quarterly 13.4 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
7 Postdigital Science and Education 12 99th Q1 – – No
8 Design Studies 11.8 98th Q1 SCIE A No
9 Journal of Peasant Studies 11.7 98th Q1 SSCI – No
10 Human Resource Development Quarterly 11.6 98th Q1 SSCI A No
11 Applied Psychology 11.4 98th Q1 SSCI A No
12 Group and Organization Management 11.3 98th Q1 SSCI A No
13 Behaviour and Information Technology 9.7 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A No
14 International Journal of Leadership in Education 9.1 98th Q1 ESCI – No
15 International Journal of Inclusive Education 9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
16 Behavior Research Methods 8.7 97th Q1 SSCI – No
17 Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 8.7 97th Q1 – – No
18 European Psychologist 8.7 97th Q1 SSCI – No
19 Journal of Islamic Law 8.6 97th Q1 – – Yes
20 Journalism 8.3 97th Q1 SSCI – No
21 Group Processes and Intergroup Relations 8.2 97th Q1 SSCI B No
22 Journal of Consumer Culture 8.2 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
23 Death Studies 8.1 96th Q1 SSCI – No
24 Ageing and Society 7.8 96th Q1 SSCI – No
25 Al-Ihkam: Jurnal Hukum dan Pranata Sosial 7.8 96th Q1 – – Yes
26 Emotion Review 7.6 96th Q1 SSCI – No
27 British Journal of Psychology 7.4 96th Q1 SSCI – No
28 Games and Culture 7.3 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
29 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 7.2 95th Q1 SSCI – No
30 Public Understanding of Science 7.2 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
31 Gender and Society 7 95th Q1 SSCI A* No
32 Daedalus 7 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
33 Journal of Medical Ethics 6.9 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
34 Behavior Modification 6.8 95th Q1 SSCI – No
35 Intelligence 6.8 95th Q1 SSCI – No
36 Digital Creativity 6.6 94th Q1 AHCI – No
37 Evaluation Review 6.5 94th Q1 SSCI A No
38 Social Indicators Research 6.4 94th Q1 SSCI A No
39 Annual Review of Anthropology 6.4 94th Q1 SSCI – No
40 Journal of Marriage and Family 6.4 94th Q1 SSCI – No
41 International Migration Review 6.3 94th Q1 SSCI A No
42 British Journal of Criminology 6.3 94th Q1 SSCI – No
43 Clinical Neuropsychologist 6.2 93rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
44 Convergence 6.2 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
45 Ethnicity and Health 6.2 93rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
46 Group Decision and Negotiation 6 93rd Q1 SSCI A No
47 Psychology of Women Quarterly 6 93rd Q1 SSCI A No
48 School Leadership and Management 6 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
49 Journal of Academic Ethics 6 92nd Q1 ESCI – No
50 Arts and Health 5.8 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
51 Journal of Clinical Psychology 5.8 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
52 Multivariate Behavioral Research 5.8 92nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
53 Evolution and Human Behavior 5.7 92nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
54 Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 5.7 92nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
55 Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology 5.6 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
56 Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science: Bridging Asia and the World 5.5 91st Q1 ESCI B No
57 Journal of Gender Studies 5.5 91st Q1 SSCI – No
58 Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice 5.5 91st Q1 SSCI – No
59 Anxiety, Stress and Coping 5.4 91st Q1 SSCI – No
60 International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation 5.4 91st Q1 ESCI – No
61 Feminist Economics 5.3 91st Q1 SSCI A No
62 Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 5.3 91st Q1 SCIE – No
63 Business and Professional Communication Quarterly 5.1 90th Q1 ESCI C No
64 Aggressive Behavior 5.1 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
65 Archives of Sexual Behavior 5.1 90th Q1 SSCI – No
66 Journal of Urban Design 5 90th Q1 ESCI – No
67 Law and Human Behavior 5 90th Q1 SSCI – No
68 Media, War and Conflict 5 90th Q1 ESCI – No
69 International Journal of Design 4.9 90th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – Yes
70 Neural Computation 4.9 89th Q1 SCIE – No
71 Psychological Research 4.7 89th Q1 SSCI A No
72 Cognition and Emotion 4.7 89th Q1 SSCI – No
73 Ethnos 4.6 89th Q1 SSCI – No
74 Identities 4.6 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
75 Journal of Quaternary Science 4.6 89th Q1 SCIE – No
76 Crime, Media, Culture 4.5 89th Q1 SSCI – No
77 Feminism and Psychology 4.5 88th Q1 SSCI – No
78 Health Education and Behavior 4.5 88th Q1 SSCI – No
79 Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 4.5 88th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – Yes
80 American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 4.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
81 International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 4.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
82 Journal of General Psychology 4.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
83 Memory and Cognition 4.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
84 Cross-Cultural Research 4.4 87th Q1 SSCI – No
85 Jurnal Ilmiah Peuradeun 4.4 87th Q1 ESCI – No
86 European Journal of Cultural Studies 4.3 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
87 Human Arenas 4.3 87th Q1 ESCI – No
88 Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 4.3 87th Q1 SSCI – No
89 Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 4.3 87th Q1 SSCI – No
90 Syariah: Jurnal Hukum dan Pemikiran 4.3 87th Q1 – – Yes
91 Nations and Nationalism 4.2 86th Q1 SSCI – No
92 Quaternary Research (United States) 4.2 86th Q1 SCIE – No
93 Communications 4.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
94 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 4.1 86th Q1 SCIE – No
95 Memory 4.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
96 Ethnicities 4 86th Q1 SSCI – No
97 Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 4 86th Q1 SSCI – No
98 Gender, Place and Culture 4 85th Q1 SSCI – No
99 American Anthropologist 3.9 85th Q1 SSCI – No
100 International Feminist Journal of Politics 3.9 85th Q1 SSCI – No
101 International Journal of Psychology 3.9 85th Q1 SSCI – No
102 Journal of Communication Inquiry 3.9 85th Q1 ESCI – No
103 Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 3.9 85th Q1 SSCI – No
104 Space and Culture 3.9 85th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
105 British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 3.8 84th Q1 SSCI – No
106 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 3.8 84th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
107 International Journal of Cross Cultural Management 3.7 84th Q1 ESCI B No
108 American Antiquity 3.7 84th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
109 Archaeological Dialogues 3.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
110 Journal of Social Archaeology 3.7 84th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
111 Journal of Structural Design and Construction Practice 3.7 84th Q1 ESCI – No
112 British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 3.6 83rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
113 Anthropological Theory 3.6 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
114 Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 3.6 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
115 Ethnography 3.5 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
116 Social Anthropology 3.5 83rd Q1 SSCI – Yes
117 Acta Psychologica 3.4 83rd Q1 SSCI A Yes
118 Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 3.4 83rd Q1 – – No
119 Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 3.4 82nd Q1 SSCI – No
120 European Journal of Women's Studies 3.4 82nd Q1 SSCI – No
121 Human Nature 3.4 82nd Q1 SSCI – No
122 Postdigital Science and Education (Switzerland) 3.4 82nd Q1 – – No
123 Ulumuna 3.4 82nd Q1 – – Yes
124 Applied Cognitive Psychology 3.3 82nd Q1 SSCI B No
125 Experimental Aging Research 3.3 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
126 Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 3.3 81st Q1 SSCI A No
127 Cultural Studies 3.3 81st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
128 Australian Psychologist 3.2 81st Q1 SSCI B No
129 Global Media and Communication 3.2 81st Q1 ESCI – No
130 Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability 3.2 81st Q1 SSCI – No
131 Tumu Gongcheng Xuebao/China Civil Engineering Journal 3.2 81st Q1 – – No
132 Anthropology and Medicine 3.2 80th Q1 SSCI – No
133 Journalism and Media 3.2 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
134 Human Ecology 3.1 80th Q1 SSCI – No
135 Interchange 3.1 80th Q1 – – No
136 Brain and Cognition 3 80th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
137 Critique of Anthropology 3 80th Q1 SSCI – No
138 Ethos 2.9 80th Q1 SSCI – No
139 American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 2.9 79th Q1 SSCI – No
140 F1000Research 2.9 79th Q1 – – Yes
141 Interiority 2.9 79th Q1 – – Yes
142 Ancient Mesoamerica 2.8 79th Q1 AHCI – No
143 Journal of Neurolinguistics 2.8 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
144 Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism 2.8 79th Q1 – – No
145 Laterality 2.8 79th Q1 SSCI – No
146 Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology 2.8 79th Q1 SCIE – No
147 Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2.7 78th Q1 SSCI – No
148 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2.7 78th Q1 SSCI – No
149 Petita: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu Hukum dan Syariah 2.7 78th Q1 – – No
150 Social Psychology 2.7 78th Q1 SSCI – No
151 International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2.6 78th Q1 AHCI – No
152 Signs 2.6 78th Q1 SSCI – No
153 Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies 2.6 77th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
154 JASA Express Letters 2.6 77th Q1 ESCI – Yes
155 Journal of Semantics 2.6 77th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
156 State Politics and Policy Quarterly 2.6 77th Q1 SSCI – No
157 Architecture 2.5 77th Q1 ESCI – Yes
158 Cultural Anthropology 2.5 77th Q1 SSCI – Yes
159 Encephale 2.4 77th Q1 SCIE – No
160 Canadian Review of Sociology 2.4 76th Q1 SSCI – No
161 Experimental Psychology 2.3 76th Q1 SSCI – No
162 International Journal of Art and Design Education 2.3 76th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
163 Psychoanalytic Quarterly 2.3 76th Q1 SSCI – No
164 Kyklos 2.2 76th Q1 SSCI A No
165 eTropic 2.2 76th Q1 – – Yes
166 Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam 2.2 76th Q1 – – Yes
167 Theory and Decision 2.2 75th Q1 SSCI A No
168 Al-Ahwal 2.2 75th Q1 – – Yes
169 Finance and Society 2.2 75th Q1 – – Yes
170 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2.1 75th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
171 Journal of Material Culture 2.1 75th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
172 Psychological Record 2.1 75th Q1 SSCI – No
173 Visual Cognition 2.1 75th Q1 SSCI – No
174 Scandinavian Economic History Review 2.1 74th Q2 ESCI C No
175 Behavioral Interventions 2.1 74th Q2 SSCI – No
176 Critical Gambling Studies 2 74th Q2 – – Yes
177 Psicologica 2 74th Q2 SSCI – Yes
178 Qualitative Research in Education 2 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
179 Cognitive Neuropsychology 1.9 74th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
180 Indonesia and the Malay World 1.9 74th Q2 AHCI – No
181 Journal of the British Academy 1.9 73rd Q2 – – Yes
182 Disena 1.8 73rd Q2 – – Yes
183 International Political Science Abstracts 1.8 73rd Q2 – – No
184 Journal of American Folklore 1.8 73rd Q2 AHCI – No
185 Journal of Anthropological Research 1.8 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
186 Journal of Logic and Computation 1.8 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
187 Sophia (Ecuador) 1.8 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
188 Geohumanities 1.8 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
189 Journal of Cultural Analytics 1.8 72nd Q2 – – No
190 Africa 1.7 72nd Q2 SSCI – No
191 Dialectical Anthropology 1.7 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
192 Ido Movement for Culture 1.7 72nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
193 Journal of Latin American Studies 1.7 72nd Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
194 Law, Culture and the Humanities 1.7 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
195 Anthropological Forum 1.7 71st Q2 SSCI – No
196 Feminist Review 1.7 71st Q2 SSCI – No
197 Journal of Baltic Studies 1.7 71st Q2 SSCI – No
198 Ethnologia Europaea 1.6 71st Q2 – – Yes
199 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 1.6 71st Q2 SSCI – No
200 Markets, Globalization and Development Review 1.6 71st Q2 – – Yes
201 MedieKultur 1.6 71st Q2 – – Yes
202 Anthropological Quarterly 1.5 70th Q2 SSCI – No
203 Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 1.5 70th Q2 AHCI – No
204 Journal of Writing Analytics 1.5 70th Q2 – – No
205 Mobility Humanities 1.5 70th Q2 – – No
206 Oxford Journal of Archaeology 1.5 70th Q2 AHCI – No
207 Revista de Estudios Sociales 1.5 70th Q2 SSCI – Yes
208 WIT Transactions on the Built Environment 1.5 70th Q2 – – No
209 Labor Studies Journal 1.5 69th Q2 – B No
210 Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 1.5 69th Q2 – – No
211 Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture 1.5 69th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
212 Cultural Management: Science and Education 1.4 69th Q2 – – No
213 Human Organization 1.4 69th Q2 SSCI – No
214 International Journal of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles 1.4 69th Q2 – – No
215 Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences (JMPHSS) 1.4 69th Q2 – – No
216 Critical Times 1.4 68th Q2 – – Yes
217 Design Issues 1.4 68th Q2 AHCI – No
218 Fashion, Style and Popular Culture 1.4 68th Q2 ESCI – No
219 Journal of Southern African Studies 1.4 68th Q2 SSCI – No
220 Neurocase 1.4 68th Q2 SCIE – No
221 Public Culture 1.4 68th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
222 Radical Philosophy 1.4 67th Q2 SSCI – No
223 Global Intellectual History 1.3 67th Q2 ESCI – No
224 Journal of Cognition and Culture 1.3 67th Q2 ESCI – No
225 Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 1.3 67th Q2 ESCI – No
226 Osiris 1.3 67th Q2 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
227 Research Journal in Advanced Humanities 1.3 67th Q2 – – No
228 Slavic Review 1.3 67th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
229 Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 1.3 66th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
230 Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 1.3 66th Q2 ESCI – No
231 Environment and History 1.2 66th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
232 Journal of European Studies 1.2 66th Q2 AHCI – No
233 Middle Kingdom Studies 1.2 66th Q2 – – No
234 Review of Religion and Chinese Society 1.2 66th Q2 ESCI – No
235 Studies in Somaesthetics 1.2 66th Q2 – – No
236 Asian Medicine 1.2 65th Q2 – – No
237 Comunicacao e Sociedade 1.2 65th Q2 – – Yes
238 Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty 1.2 65th Q2 ESCI – No
239 Historia Agraria 1.2 65th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
240 Age, Culture, Humanities 1.1 65th Q2 – – Yes
241 Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies 1.1 65th Q2 – – Yes
242 Visual Anthropology Review 1.1 65th Q2 ESCI – No
243 Creativity 1.1 64th Q2 – – No
244 Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on its Development 1.1 64th Q2 – – No
245 Journal of Holistic Integrative Pharmacy 1.1 64th Q2 – – Yes
246 Journal of Public Space 1.1 64th Q2 – – Yes
247 Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting 1.1 64th Q2 – – No
248 Social Research 1.1 64th Q2 SSCI – No
249 Systemy Logistyczne Wojsk 1.1 64th Q2 – – No
250 Early Medieval Europe 1.1 63rd Q2 AHCI – No
251 Journal for the History of Astronomy 1.1 63rd Q2 AHCI, SCIE – No
252 Social Indicators Research Series 1.1 63rd Q2 – – No
253 Urban History 1.1 63rd Q2 AHCI – No
254 Gender and History 1 63rd Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
255 Indexer 1 63rd Q2 – – No
256 New Design Ideas 1 63rd Q2 – – No
257 Annales Medico-Psychologiques 1 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
258 Bandung: Journal of the Global South 1 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
259 Beijing International Review of Education 1 62nd Q2 – – No
260 Critical Arts 1 62nd Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
261 Feminist Studies 1 62nd Q2 SSCI – No
262 Inner Asia 1 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
263 World Art 1 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
264 Agua y Territorio 1 61st Q2 ESCI – No
265 Ceskoslovenska Psychologie 1 61st Q2 SSCI – Yes
266 Cogito 1 61st Q2 – – No
267 Digital Philology: Journal of Medieval Cultures 1 61st Q2 – – No
268 Ethnologia Polona 1 61st Q2 – – Yes
269 Frontiers Collection 1 61st Q2 – – No
270 Journal of Family History 1 61st Q2 SSCI – No
271 Indian Journal of Gender Studies 0.9 60th Q2 SSCI C No
272 American Journal of Psychology 0.9 60th Q2 SSCI – No
273 Apuntes del Cenes 0.9 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
274 International Journal of Law and Society 0.9 60th Q2 – – No
275 Journal of Applied Arts and Health 0.9 60th Q2 – – No
276 Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism 0.9 60th Q2 – – No
277 Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership 0.9 60th Q2 ESCI – No
278 Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research 0.9 59th Q2 – – No
279 Journal of Asian American Studies 0.9 59th Q2 – – No
280 Journal of Popular Music Education 0.9 59th Q2 – – No
281 NAN NU 0.9 59th Q2 AHCI – No
282 Sinus Persicus 0.9 59th Q2 – – No
283 Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae 0.9 59th Q2 – – Yes
284 Xi'an Jianzhu Keji Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology 0.9 59th Q2 – – No
285 Theory and Event 0.9 58th Q2 – – No
286 Black Scholar 0.8 58th Q2 ESCI – No
287 Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies 0.8 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
288 Journal of Studies in the English Language 0.8 58th Q2 – – No
289 Jurnal Kajian Bali 0.8 58th Q2 – – Yes
290 Middle East Law and Governance 0.8 58th Q2 ESCI – No
291 Revista Criminalidad 0.8 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
292 Bitacora Urbano Territorial 0.8 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
293 Etnografia 0.8 57th Q2 – – No
294 Iraq 0.8 57th Q2 – – No
295 Journal of Environmental Media 0.8 57th Q2 – – No
296 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 0.8 57th Q2 – – Yes
297 Journal of Shariah Law Research 0.8 57th Q2 – – No
298 Letras (Peru) 0.8 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
299 Culture Unbound 0.8 56th Q2 – – Yes
300 International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture 0.8 56th Q2 – – Yes

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