Table 2 List of World core journals publishing archaeology-related articles of Chinese scholars.

From: “Bringing in” and “Going abroad”: A bibliometric evaluation of the internationalization of archaeology in Mainland China

World core journals (WCJs)

Number of articles

Time of the First Issue

JIF quartiles

Quaternary International

274

1989

Q2

Journal of Archaeological Science

152

1974

Q1

Archaeometry

100

1958

Q2

Chinese Archaeology

96

2001

ESCI

Plos One

91

2006

Q1

Chinese Science Bulletin

91

1956

Q2

Holocene

88

1991

Q2

Antiquity

86

1927

Q1

Scientific Reports

69

2011

Q1

Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports

65

2014

A&HCI

Quaternary Science Reviews

60

1982

Q1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

58

1915

Q1

Science China-Earth Sciences

57

1996

Q2

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

53

2009

Q1

Journal of Human Evolution

52

1972

Q1

Archaeological Research in Asia

50

2014

A&HCI

Anthropologie

49

1890

Q4

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

47

1918

Q1

Nature

46

1869

Q1

Quaternary Geochronology

42

2006

Q2

Quaternary Research

40

1970

Q2

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

39

1965

Q1

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

38

1991

Q1

Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis

35

1981

Q4

Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica

29

1928

A&HCI

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

25

1992

Q1

Science

25

1880

Q1

Journal of Cultural Heritage

25

2000

Q1

Molecular Biology and Evolution

24

1983

Q1

Journal of Geographical Sciences

23

1990

Q2

Radiocarbon

22

1959

Q2

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

21

1982

Q1

Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

20

1984

Q3

Others

1190

  

Total

3182

  
  1. This table only shows the journals publishing more than 20 archaeology-related articles. The JIF quartiles are derived from the website of Journal Citation Report: https://jcr.clarivate.com, the same as below.