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Rock Art Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS AHCI. Published by Australian Rock Art Research Association.
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ISSN 0813-0426Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Australian Rock Art Research Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 135 / 697 | 80th | Q1 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 152 / 462 | 67th | Q2 |
| Archeology | 144 / 388 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 269 / 536 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2009–2014), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
Rock Art Research is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 135 of 697), Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 152 of 462) and Q2 in Archeology (rank 144 of 388), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rock Art Research 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.307, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
Rock Art Research is published by Australian Rock Art Research Association. Its ISSN is 0813-0426.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rock Art Research has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Rock Art Research published 6 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 27. 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.
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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