Journals 100
2026 Edition
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| Rank | Name | Publisher | Publication volume | Diversity of authoring institutions | Typical FWCI | Median FWCI of best work | Gravitas | Diversity of citing institutions | Open access | Overall Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heritage Science | Springer Science+Business Media | 99.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 98.2 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 82.7 | 98.9 |
| 2 | Heritage | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 99.3 | 100.0 | 99.6 | 92.3 | 100.0 | 99.9 | 81.6 | 97.6 |
| 3 | Synthese | Springer Science+Business Media | 97.9 | 99.7 | 99.4 | 96.2 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 63.7 | 97.5 |
| 4 | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | Springer Nature | 99.8 | 99.9 | 99.8 | 96.1 | 100.0 | 99.8 | 41.0 | 96.8 |
| 5 | Antiquity | Cambridge University Press | 98.7 | 98.0 | 99.0 | 96.8 | 100.0 | 99.1 | 47.5 | 96.7 |
| 5 | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge University Press | 68.8 | 93.1 | 99.8 | 99.3 | 99.7 | 100.0 | 78.9 | 96.7 |
| 7 | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | Taylor & Francis | 98.3 | 99.7 | 100.0 | 98.9 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 23.0 | 96.6 |
| 8 | Journal of Cultural Heritage | Elsevier BV | 96.8 | 100.0 | 99.9 | 95.4 | 100.0 | 99.9 | 32.7 | 96.2 |
| 8 | Journal of Archaeological Science | Elsevier BV | 92.9 | 99.5 | 100.0 | 93.2 | 100.0 | 99.6 | 51.1 | 96.2 |
| 10 | Languages | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 98.5 | 99.8 | 97.8 | 88.6 | 100.0 | 99.9 | 77.2 | 96.1 |