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Scottish Archaeological Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1471-5767Verify ISSN ↗1755-2028Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 1214 / 1434 | 15th | Q4 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 405 / 462 | 12th | Q4 |
| Archeology | 343 / 388 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2000–2012, 1998, 1996), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Scottish Archaeological Journal is Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1214 of 1434), Q4 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 405 of 462) and Q4 in Archeology (rank 343 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Scottish Archaeological Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
Scottish Archaeological Journal is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1471-5767 and its online ISSN is 1755-2028.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Scottish Archaeological Journal has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #945 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Scottish Archaeological Journal published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 33. 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 11 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (57.6%), Tanzania (9.1%) and United States (9.1%). 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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