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South African Archaeological Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8), WoS AHCI. Published by South African Archaeological Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0038-1969Verify ISSN ↗2224-4654Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Archaeological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 63 / 462 | 86th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 60 / 388 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
South African Archaeological Bulletin is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 63 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 60 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Archaeological Bulletin 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.325, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
South African Archaeological Bulletin is published by South African Archaeological Society. Its print ISSN is 0038-1969 and its online ISSN is 2224-4654.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South African Archaeological Bulletin has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
South African Archaeological Bulletin published 2 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 25. 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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