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Virtual Archaeology Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
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ISSN 1989-9947Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 13 / 462 | 97th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 12 / 388 | 97th | Q1 |
| Conservation | 7 / 108 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 416 / 1022 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Virtual Archaeology Review is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 13 of 462), Q1 in Archeology (rank 12 of 388) and Q1 in Conservation (rank 7 of 108), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Virtual Archaeology Review 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.599, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
Virtual Archaeology Review is published by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Its ISSN is 1989-9947.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Virtual Archaeology Review has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 2.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Virtual Archaeology Review published 36 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Spain (55.6%), Italy (10.6%) and Portugal (4.7%). 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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