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npj Heritage Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS AHCI/SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 7 / 462 | 98th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 7 / 388 | 98th | Q1 |
| Conservation | 3 / 108 | 97th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 318 / 1022 | 68th | Q2 |
| Spectroscopy | 28 / 81 | 66th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 89 / 256 | 65th | Q2 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 60 / 137 | 56th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
npj Heritage Science is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 7 of 462), Q1 in Archeology (rank 7 of 388) and Q1 in Conservation (rank 3 of 108), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
npj Heritage Science is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.842, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. Authors elsewhere should check the fee on the journal's own website.
npj Heritage Science is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its ISSN is 3059-3220.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
npj Heritage Science has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
npj Heritage Science published 694 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (75%), Italy (2.4%) and Malaysia (1.6%). 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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