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Public Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Maney Publishing.
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ISSN 1465-5187Verify ISSN ↗1753-5530Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 210 / 462 | 54th | Q2 |
| Archeology | 199 / 388 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 2004), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Public Archaeology is Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 210 of 462) and Q3 in Archeology (rank 199 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Public 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.176, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
Public Archaeology is published by Maney Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1465-5187 and its online ISSN is 1753-5530.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Archaeology has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #92 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Public Archaeology published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 19. 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 54 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (23.8%), United States (10.2%) and Norway (7.4%).
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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