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World Archaeology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 37 / 462 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Archeology | 35 / 388 | 91st | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 89 / 201 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
World Archaeology is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 37 of 462), Q1 in Archeology (rank 35 of 388) and Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 89 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
World Archaeology 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.567, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 88.
World Archaeology is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0043-8243 and its online ISSN is 1470-1375.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Archaeology has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
World Archaeology published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 57. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22.7%), United States (13%) and Spain (8.9%).
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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