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Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Shanghai Museum.
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ISSN 1005-1538Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shanghai Museum
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 174 / 462 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Conservation | 44 / 108 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology is Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 174 of 462) and Q2 in Conservation (rank 44 of 108), by CiteScore 2025.
Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.239, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology is published by Shanghai Museum. Its ISSN is 1005-1538.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology published 41 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2008 with 53. 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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