''Archaeometry'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering
archaeological science, particularly
absolute dating methods, artefact studies,
quantitative archaeology,
remote sensing
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,
conservation science, and
environmental archaeology.
It is published bimonthly by
Wiley-Blackwell
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, on behalf of the
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at the
University of Oxford
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, in association with the ''
Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie Archäometrie'' and the
Society for Archaeological Sciences.
Its current editors are
A. Mark Pollard,
Ina Reiche,
Brandi MacDonald,
Gilberto Artioli, and
Catherine Batt.
The journal was founded as the ''Bulletin of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art'' in 1958. It has been published by Wiley-Blackwell since 2001.
Research papers published in ''Archaeometry'' are typically "technical expositions of physical and chemical methods applicable to dating and materials identification in archaeology". It is also notable for publishing periodic "datelists", which compile information on
radiocarbon dates produced by the
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit and other radiocarbon laboratories.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is
indexed and abstracted in the
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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, the
Science Citation Index
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It was created by the Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information, launched in 1964 as Science Citation Index ( ...
,
Scopus
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,
Academic Search,
FRANCIS, the
International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, the
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences,
Periodicals Index Online, ''
L'Année philologique'',
Art Source,
Anthropological Literature, and
GEOBASE.
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2019
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 1.519, ranking it 64th out of 86 journals in the category "Chemistry, Analytical",
28th out of 45 in the category "Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear",
and 142nd out of 200 in the category "Geosciences, Multidisciplinary".
See also
*
Radiocarbon (journal)
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14754754, Journal homepage
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