Journal of Cultural Heritage

ISSN 1296-2074 · Elsevier BV · France · active 2000–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
3.9
SJR
0.673
h-index
108

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Journal of Cultural Heritage is Q1 in 5 of its 9 subject categories and Q2 in the other 4. Its best category quartile is Q1.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Journal of Cultural Heritage in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
ConservationQ1#4 of 113
Archeology (arts and humanities)Q1#33 of 468
AnthropologyQ1#47 of 535
HistoryQ1#53 of 1,914
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q1#104 of 519
SpectroscopyQ2#25 of 81
Chemistry (miscellaneous)Q2#167 of 530
Materials Science (miscellaneous)Q2#233 of 700
Computer Science ApplicationsQ2#308 of 875
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
4.27
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
232

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Journal of Cultural Heritage is Q1 in 5 of its 9 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Conservation: Q1, #4 of 113), with SJR 0.673 (Scimago) and an h-index of 108 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

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Access status:
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Scope

culturalheritagematerialsarcheologybuildingconservationearth-surfacetechniquessurveyinggeologyarchaeologicalprotection

Frequently asked

Is Journal of Cultural Heritage a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Journal of Cultural Heritage. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Journal of Cultural Heritage indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Journal of Cultural Heritage appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Journal of Cultural Heritage?

Papers in Journal of Cultural Heritage are cited about 3.9 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 108. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Journal of Cultural Heritage (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Journal of Cultural Heritage is Q1 in 5 of its 9 subject categories and Q2 in the other 4. By category: Conservation: Q1, #4 of 113; Archeology (arts and humanities): Q1, #33 of 468; Anthropology: Q1, #47 of 535; History: Q1, #53 of 1,914; Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous): Q1, #104 of 519; Spectroscopy: Q2, #25 of 81; Chemistry (miscellaneous): Q2, #167 of 530; Materials Science (miscellaneous): Q2, #233 of 700; and 1 more. Its best category quartile is Q1. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Journal of Cultural Heritage is cited about 3.9 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 108.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Journal of Cultural Heritage?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Journal of Cultural Heritage. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q1 in Conservation and 4 other categories, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Journal of Cultural Heritage open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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