| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 41 | 5,908 | 325 | 286 |
| 2 | Journal of Archaeological Science | 93 | 5,279 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Nature | 17 | 3,415 | 688 | 1.2K |
| 4 | Antiquity | 166 | 3,251 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | World Archaeology | 42 | 1,738 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Quaternary International | 38 | 1,461 | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | Science | 7 | 1,452 | 1.5K | 2.0K |
| 8 | Journal of World Prehistory | 15 | 1,317 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Journal of Human Evolution | 31 | 1,247 | 15 | 27 |
| 10 | Archaeometry | 27 | 1,178 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 21 | 1,174 | 62 | 54 |
| 11 | Holocene | 22 | 1,174 | 5 | 8 |
| 13 | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | 22 | 1,138 | 2 | 1 |
| 14 | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | 40 | 1,094 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | PLoS ONE | 30 | 1,072 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 16 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 14 | 974 | 41 | 67 |
| 17 | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | 30 | 967 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Nature Communications | 4 | 938 | 3.1K | 1.4K |
| 19 | African Archaeological Review | 24 | 835 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | Quaternary Science Reviews | 12 | 812 | 54 | 55 |
| 21 | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | 24 | 753 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | American Antiquity | 5 | 723 | 81 | 25 |
| 23 | Annals of Botany | 2 | 702 | 192 | 18 |
| 24 | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 18 | 680 | 3 | 5 |
| 25 | Scientific Reports | 13 | 515 | 2.2K | 1.6K |
| 26 | Azania | 17 | 509 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Environmental Archaeology | 14 | 423 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | Geoarchaeology - an International Journal | 17 | 418 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 1 | 401 | 49 | 59 |
| 30 | International Journal of Heritage Studies | 7 | 339 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Rice | 2 | 318 | 38 | 8 |
| 32 | Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory | 9 | 316 | 5 | 11 |
| 33 | Neuropsychologia | 1 | 312 | 767 | 242 |
| 34 | Journal of Quaternary Science | 9 | 298 | 33 | 46 |
| 35 | Human Biology | 5 | 290 | 18 | 6 |
| 36 | International Journal of Geographical Information Science | 1 | 265 | 187 | 56 |
| 37 | Cell | 1 | 250 | 1.4K | 2.2K |
| 38 | Quaternary Research | 6 | 248 | 58 | 91 |
| 39 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 3 | 245 | 113 | 174 |
| 40 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 3 | 243 | 278 | 258 |
| 41 | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 8 | 234 | 62 | 58 |
| 42 | Journal of Archaeological Research | 2 | 220 | 17 | 12 |
| 43 | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, London | 10 | 219 | 1 | 5 |
| 44 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1 | 204 | 543 | 313 |
| 45 | Journal of Roman Archaeology | 14 | 199 | 1 | 2 |
| 46 | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports | 32 | 198 | 2 | 3 |
| 47 | Nature Plants | 2 | 189 | 97 | 135 |
| 48 | Geophysical Research Letters | 1 | 187 | 1.4K | 712 |
| 49 | Journal of African Archaeology | 4 | 183 | 1 | 1 |
| 50 | Nature Genetics | 2 | 178 | 1.4K | 3.8K |
| 51 | Archaeological Research in Asia | 8 | 174 | 1 | 1 |
| 52 | Radiocarbon | 10 | 167 | 19 | 33 |
| 53 | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1 | 160 | 593 | 330 |
| 53 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1 | 160 | 321 | 69 |
| 55 | Annals of Human Biology | 1 | 152 | 228 | 29 |
| 55 | Evolution and Human Behavior | 1 | 152 | 154 | 98 |
| 57 | Journal of Experimental Botany | 1 | 151 | 600 | 390 |
| 58 | Reviews of Geophysics | 1 | 150 | 57 | 141 |
| 59 | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | 1 | 145 | 21 | 3 |
| 60 | Applied Soil Ecology | 1 | 141 | 227 | 76 |
| 61 | BMJ Quality and Safety | 1 | 140 | 208 | 81 |
| 62 | Annual of the British School at Athens | 9 | 139 | 1 | 1 |
| 63 | Human Ecology | 3 | 138 | 44 | 72 |
| 64 | Human Genetics | 1 | 130 | 1.1K | 560 |
| 65 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 4 | 125 | 183 | 285 |
| 66 | Journal of Anatomy | 1 | 122 | 540 | 192 |
| 67 | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 1 | 113 | 243 | 138 |
| 67 | European Journal of Archaeology | 20 | 113 | 1 | 2 |
| 69 | Forensic Science International | 2 | 107 | 269 | 165 |
| 70 | Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology | 6 | 96 | 9 | 11 |
| 71 | Journal of Social Archaeology | 5 | 93 | 3 | 11 |
| 72 | Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design | 2 | 92 | 52 | 69 |
| 72 | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology | 6 | 92 | 5 | 2 |
| 74 | Science Advances | 2 | 91 | 1.3K | 2.0K |
| 75 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 3 | 87 | 1.3K | 1.9K |
| 76 | Geology | 1 | 83 | 503 | 465 |
| 76 | Levant | 5 | 83 | 3 | 1 |
| 78 | Ancient Mesoamerica | 2 | 82 | 71 | 45 |
| 79 | Geomorphology | 2 | 74 | 297 | 405 |
| 79 | Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution | 3 | 74 | 47 | 56 |
| 79 | Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites | 11 | 74 | 1 | 1 |
| 82 | Archaeology in Oceania | 1 | 73 | 31 | 14 |
| 82 | Human Nature | 2 | 73 | 52 | 84 |
| 84 | International Journal of Paleopathology | 3 | 72 | 23 | 19 |
| 85 | Oxford Journal of Archaeology | 5 | 71 | 1 | 3 |
| 86 | Archives of Oral Biology | 1 | 70 | 598 | 301 |
| 86 | Theoretical Population Biology | 1 | 70 | 194 | 140 |
| 88 | American Journal of Archaeology | 4 | 69 | 1 | 1 |
| 88 | Journal of Zoology | 2 | 69 | 260 | 272 |
| 90 | General Anthropology | 4 | 68 | 1 | 1 |
| 91 | American Anthropologist | 2 | 64 | 139 | 175 |
| 92 | Lancet Respiratory Medicine,the | 1 | 63 | 271 | 570 |
| 92 | Latin American Antiquity | 3 | 63 | 46 | 75 |
| 92 | Libyan Studies | 4 | 63 | 10 | 9 |
| 95 | Geo-Marine Letters | 1 | 59 | 55 | 50 |
| 96 | Heredity | 1 | 58 | 402 | 383 |
| 97 | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | 1 | 57 | 502 | 331 |
| 97 | Lithic Technology | 2 | 57 | 19 | 9 |
| 99 | Environmental Earth Sciences | 2 | 56 | 469 | 449 |
| 100 | Current Anthropology | 1 | 53 | 15 | 12 |
| 100 | Dendrochronologia | 6 | 53 | 8 | 33 |
| 102 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water | 4 | 52 | 12 | 64 |
| 103 | Archaeologies | 7 | 51 | 1 | 5 |
| 104 | European Journal of Human Genetics | 1 | 50 | 964 | 1.1K |
| 104 | Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research | 1 | 50 | 3 | 2 |
| 106 | Journal of the Geological Society | 2 | 49 | 103 | 176 |
| 107 | Journal of Molecular Structure | 1 | 47 | 2.3K | 1.3K |
| 107 | Royal Society Open Science | 4 | 47 | 104 | 382 |
| 107 | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 2 | 47 | 301 | 716 |
| 110 | Earth Surface Dynamics | 1 | 45 | 31 | 30 |
| 111 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 1 | 44 | 1.2K | 1.1K |
| 111 | Journal of Cultural Heritage | 3 | 44 | 19 | 87 |
| 111 | Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging | 1 | 44 | 13 | 4 |
| 111 | Journal of Lithic Studies | 2 | 44 | 3 | 2 |
| 115 | Economic Botany | 2 | 43 | 51 | 114 |
| 116 | Sustainability Science | 1 | 42 | 81 | 115 |
| 116 | Open Quaternary | 2 | 42 | 1 | 1 |
| 118 | Environmental Geology | 2 | 41 | 104 | 242 |
| 119 | Journal of the American Ceramic Society | 1 | 40 | 1.3K | 1.2K |
| 120 | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine | 2 | 39 | 200 | 189 |
| 120 | Elementa | 1 | 39 | 50 | 66 |
| 122 | Science and Justice - Journal of the Forensic Science Society | 2 | 37 | 23 | 34 |
| 123 | Climate of the Past | 1 | 36 | 107 | 152 |
| 124 | Botanical Review, The | 1 | 34 | 27 | 93 |
| 125 | Remote Sensing | 2 | 33 | 1.0K | 1.4K |
| 125 | Anatolian Studies | 4 | 33 | 1 | 1 |
| 127 | Annual Review of Anthropology | 1 | 31 | 93 | 178 |
| 127 | Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage | 4 | 31 | 1 | 1 |
| 129 | Journal of Raman Spectroscopy | 1 | 30 | 590 | 587 |
| 129 | Palgrave Communications | 1 | 30 | 12 | 32 |
| 131 | Communications of the ACM | 1 | 28 | 27 | 75 |
| 132 | Journal of Material Culture | 1 | 26 | 4 | 11 |
| 133 | Materials Characterization | 1 | 25 | 555 | 702 |
| 134 | ACS Symposium Series | 1 | 24 | 1.3K | 527 |
| 134 | Journal of Ecology | 1 | 24 | 304 | 536 |
| 134 | Studies in Conservation | 4 | 24 | 4 | 9 |
| 134 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1 | 24 | 260 | 397 |
| 134 | The Conservator | 2 | 24 | 1 | 1 |
| 134 | Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin | 1 | 24 | 2 | 1 |
| 140 | Medieval Archaeology | 1 | 23 | 4 | 2 |
| 140 | Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology | 2 | 23 | 3 | 4 |
| 140 | Evolutionary Human Sciences | 2 | 23 | 17 | 13 |
| 143 | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology | 32 | 22 | 1 | 20 |
| 144 | International Journal of Legal Medicine | 2 | 21 | 114 | 302 |
| 144 | Archaeological Journal | 3 | 21 | 1 | 3 |
| 146 | Thermochimica Acta | 1 | 20 | 857 | 1.0K |
| 146 | Britannia | 12 | 20 | 1 | 2 |
| 148 | Bone | 1 | 19 | 993 | 1.9K |
| 148 | Journal of Arid Environments | 1 | 19 | 221 | 438 |
| 148 | Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy | 3 | 19 | 3 | 9 |
| 151 | Ecological Informatics | 1 | 18 | 69 | 190 |
| 151 | Diatom Research | 1 | 18 | 51 | 57 |
| 151 | Open Journal of Archaeometry | 3 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| 154 | Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy | 1 | 17 | 1.9K | 2.3K |
| 154 | Geoderma | 1 | 17 | 398 | 839 |
| 154 | Diversity and Distributions | 1 | 17 | 192 | 436 |
| 154 | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems | 1 | 17 | 146 | 275 |
| 158 | Catena | 1 | 16 | 431 | 748 |
| 158 | Communications Biology | 1 | 16 | 777 | 1.5K |
| 158 | Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences | 3 | 16 | 14 | 32 |
| 158 | Religion, Brain and Behavior | 2 | 16 | 37 | 52 |
| 162 | Ecological Modelling | 1 | 15 | 435 | 827 |
| 162 | Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development | 1 | 15 | 17 | 12 |
| 164 | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 1 | 13 | 2.6K | 4.3K |
| 164 | Ecology and Society | 1 | 13 | 1 | 10 |
| 164 | Archaeological Prospection | 1 | 13 | 38 | 77 |
| 164 | Journal of Danish Archaeology | 1 | 13 | 3 | 3 |
| 168 | Jom | 1 | 12 | 486 | 657 |
| 168 | Trends in Plant Science | 1 | 12 | 199 | 443 |
| 168 | Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia | 1 | 12 | 14 | 14 |
| 168 | Theory in Biosciences | 1 | 12 | 45 | 69 |
| 168 | Evolutionary Bioinformatics | 1 | 12 | 61 | 113 |
| 168 | Heritage | 3 | 12 | 6 | 35 |
| 168 | Developments in Soil Science | 2 | 12 | 3 | 7 |
| 168 | Sahara | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 176 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 11 | 1.0K | 2.0K |
| 176 | Altorientalische Forschungen | 1 | 11 | 2 | 2 |
| 176 | Anthropozoologica | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 |
| 176 | American Journal of Biological Anthropology | 1 | 11 | 21 | 13 |
| 180 | Heritage and Society | 1 | 10 | 2 | 9 |
| 180 | Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 |
| 182 | Applied Sciences (Switzerland) | 1 | 9 | 5.0K | 5.7K |
| 182 | Water (Switzerland) | 1 | 9 | 1.7K | 2.4K |
| 182 | International Journal of Primatology | 2 | 9 | 134 | 404 |
| 182 | Journal of Water and Climate Change | 1 | 9 | 84 | 126 |
| 182 | Archival Science | 1 | 9 | 12 | 19 |
| 182 | Hunter Gatherer Research | 1 | 9 | 5 | 11 |
| 182 | Museum History Journal | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| 189 | Microchemical Journal | 1 | 8 | 861 | 1.6K |
| 189 | Mineralogical Magazine | 1 | 8 | 231 | 352 |
| 189 | Landscape Research | 1 | 8 | 56 | 157 |
| 189 | Norwegian Archaeological Review | 3 | 8 | 8 | 29 |
| 189 | Archaeological Dialogues | 2 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
| 189 | Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy | 1 | 8 | 10 | 33 |
| 189 | Present Pasts | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
| 189 | Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal | 9 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
| 189 | Before Farming | 1 | 8 | 13 | 25 |
| 198 | Public Archaeology | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 198 | Big Data and Society | 1 | 7 | 24 | 86 |
| 198 | Starinar | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 |
| 198 | Journal of Open Archaeology Data | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 202 | Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings | 4 | 6 | 1.2K | 1.3K |
| 202 | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society | 1 | 6 | 146 | 340 |
| 202 | International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing | 1 | 6 | 86 | 181 |
| 202 | Arts | 1 | 6 | 13 | 14 |
| 202 | Interdisciplinary Contributions To Archaeology | 2 | 6 | 15 | 58 |
| 202 | Craft Research | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 202 | Quaternary | 1 | 6 | 23 | 43 |
| 202 | Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology | 1 | 6 | 23 | 45 |
| 202 | Revista Del Museo De La Plata | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 202 | Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy | 1 | 6 | 433 | 706 |
| 212 | International Journal of the Classical Tradition | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 |
| 212 | Land | 4 | 5 | 109 | 865 |
| 212 | Cogent Arts and Humanities | 1 | 5 | 23 | 27 |
| 212 | Journal of Anthropology | 1 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
| 212 | Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 212 | Medical History Supplement | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 218 | Journal of Physics Condensed Matter | 1 | 4 | 1.5K | 2.4K |
| 218 | Public Health | 1 | 4 | 418 | 1.2K |
| 218 | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 1 | 4 | 1.2K | 2.7K |
| 218 | Geoforum | 1 | 4 | 247 | 568 |
| 218 | Minerals (Basel, Switzerland) | 1 | 4 | 425 | 822 |
| 218 | Social Science Computer Review | 1 | 4 | 6 | 45 |
| 218 | Soil Forensics | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 218 | Environmental Science and Technology Library | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 218 | Papers From the Institute of Archaeology | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 227 | Journal of Egyptian Archaeology | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 227 | Journal of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine | 1 | 3 | 136 | 413 |
| 227 | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews | 1 | 3 | 35 | 44 |
| 227 | Journal of Field Archaeology | 1 | 3 | 4 | 22 |
| 227 | Ecological Complexity | 1 | 3 | 49 | 211 |
| 227 | Advances in Archaeological Practice | 1 | 3 | 45 | 112 |
| 227 | Archives of Natural History | 1 | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 227 | Journal of Contemporary Archaeology | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 227 | Springer Series on Cultural Computing | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 236 | Antiquaries Journal | 1 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 236 | Spectroscopy Letters | 1 | 2 | 339 | 750 |
| 236 | Journal of Southern African Studies | 1 | 2 | 21 | 97 |
| 236 | Anthrozoos | 1 | 2 | 103 | 329 |
| 236 | Cultural Trends | 3 | 2 | 2 | 47 |
| 236 | Journal of Ethnobiology | 1 | 2 | 23 | 68 |
| 236 | Journal of the Institute of Conservation | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 236 | Open Archaeology | 1 | 2 | 12 | 33 |
| 236 | Australian Religion Studies Review | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 245 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1 | 1 | 1.0K | 1.4K |
| 245 | Geological Society Special Publication | 1 | 1 | 295 | 737 |
| 245 | Medical History | 2 | 1 | 20 | 124 |
| 245 | Journal of Latin American Studies | 4 | 1 | 2 | 57 |
| 245 | Proceedings of the Geologists Association | 1 | 1 | 85 | 174 |
| 245 | Journal of Historical Geography | 2 | 1 | 36 | 224 |
| 245 | Soccer and Society | 1 | 1 | 25 | 111 |
| 245 | Early Medieval Europe | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| 245 | Continuity and Change | 1 | 1 | 44 | 69 |
| 245 | Material Religion | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 245 | International Journal of Cultural Property | 1 | 1 | 20 | 62 |
| 245 | Human Evolution | 1 | 1 | 30 | 84 |
| 245 | Time and Mind | 1 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
| 245 | Visitor Studies | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 245 | Historic Environment: Policy and Practice | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 |
| 245 | Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage | 1 | 1 | 3 | 39 |
| 245 | Science and Technology of Archaeological Research | 1 | 1 | 8 | 39 |
| 245 | Current Swedish Archaeology | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 245 | Eos | 1 | 1 | 208 | 453 |
| 245 | Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 245 | Sudan & Nubia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 266 | Angewandte Chemie | 2 | 0 | 1.3K | 3.1K |
| 266 | Classical Review | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 266 | Journal of Asian Studies | 1 | 0 | 6 | 23 |
| 266 | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 266 | Slavic Review | 1 | 0 | 22 | 74 |
| 266 | Journal of Hellenic Studies | 7 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 266 | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 266 | Journal of Roman Studies | 8 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| 266 | Journal of African History | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 266 | African Arts | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 266 | Papers of the British School at Rome | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 266 | Museum Management and Curatorship | 1 | 0 | 18 | 77 |
| 266 | Archives Europeennes De Sociologie | 1 | 0 | 13 | 35 |
| 266 | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 266 | Textile History | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 266 | Evolutionary Anthropology | 1 | 0 | 81 | 187 |
| 266 | London Journal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 266 | Anthropology Now | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 266 | Archaeological Reports | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 266 | Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage | 1 | 0 | 7 | 23 |
| 266 | Orient | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 266 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 266 | Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series | 2 | 0 | 16 | 65 |
| 266 | Revista Do Museu De Arqueologia E Etnologia Suplemento | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 266 | Built Heritage | 1 | 0 | 5 | 18 |
| 266 | Viking | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 266 | Estudos Do Quaternario | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 266 | Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
