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Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Illinois Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0146-1109Verify ISSN ↗2327-4271Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 202 / 462 | 56th | Q2 |
| Archeology | 191 / 388 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025 (also 2000, 1989, 1980), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology is Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 202 of 462) and Q2 in Archeology (rank 191 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Midcontinental Journal of 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.155, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology is published by University of Illinois Press. Its print ISSN is 0146-1109 and its online ISSN is 2327-4271.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #217 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 35. 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 53 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (94.3%), Canada (4.7%) and Australia (0.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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