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Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by Altai State University.
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ISSN 2307-2539Verify ISSN ↗2712-8202Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Altai State University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 252 / 462 | 45th | Q3 |
| Archeology | 234 / 388 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research is Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 252 of 462) and Q3 in Archeology (rank 234 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research 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 0.5, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.347, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 5.
Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research is published by Altai State University. Its print ISSN is 2307-2539 and its online ISSN is 2712-8202.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 88. 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 77 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from Russia (93.5%), Kazakhstan (1.9%) and Türkiye (1.3%). 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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