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Open Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), WoS AHCI, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 2300-6560Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 56 / 462 | 87th | Q1 |
| Conservation | 18 / 108 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Education | 861 / 1698 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Open Archaeology is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 56 of 462), Q1 in Conservation (rank 18 of 108) and Q3 in Education (rank 861 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Open Archaeology is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.568, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$848 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.
Open Archaeology is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its ISSN is 2300-6560.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Archaeology has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Open Archaeology published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 93. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Spain (16.8%), United Kingdom (8.7%) and United States (6.8%).
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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