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CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH · DE · Est. 2001

ISSN2160-5025eISSN2160-5068
WOS ESCI
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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H-Indexi
10
Total Worksi
615
Total Citationsi
759
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.10
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Archaeology.

General Information

Country / RegionDE
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published2001
Annual Volume~ 15 articles / year
StatusActive (last: 2024)
Total Publications615
Publisher OrgDe Gruyter
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Submission Info

Peer Review
OA License
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

6/11 · 55%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
2160-5025 / 2160-5068
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS
Peer review process documented?
N/A
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
N/A
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
Primary language documented?
English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
20
35
2018
16
22
2019
19
28
2020
17
40
2021
16
16
2022
15
5
2023
15
4
2024
15
0
2025

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Archaeology

Frequently asked questions about CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY

Is CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY: it is indexed in Web of Science, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY?

CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.10.

Is CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY is indexed in Web of Science.

What is the aims and scope of CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY?

Subject areas: Archaeology.

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Data updated: 2026-05-26 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref