Open Archaeology
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Editor-in-Chief:
Joakim Goldhahn
About this journal
The aim of Open Archaeology is to become a premier source of knowledge and a worldwide-recognized platform of exchange for scientists, without any geographical or temporal restrictions.
Scope of the journal includes, but is not restricted to:
- World Archaeology - discoveries and research
- Archaeological science
- Theory and interpretation in archaeology
- Archaeological heritage preservation and management
Your Benefits
Why submit
Authors of Open Archaeology benefit from:
- fair and constructive peer review
- quick online publication of accepted papers (continuous publication model)
- all articles are freely available to the academic community worldwide without any restrictions
- promotion of each published article
- free language polishing services upon acceptance for authors from non-English speaking regions
- distribution to open access directories (such as DOAJ) and thousands of libraries worldwide
- liberal policies on copyrights (authors retain copyright) and on self-archiving (no embargo periods)
- secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
Why read
Open Archaeology is a forum of novel approaches to archaeological theory, methodology and practice, and an international medium for the dissemination of research data and interdisciplinary projects.
The journal is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers from different countries. Open Archaeology accommodates different styles and formats to help scientists from various backgrounds interact effortlessly.
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Article Processing Charges
In order to sustain the publishing process, each article accepted for publication in Open Archaeology is subject to an Article Processing Charge of €500 (to all new submissions until 31 December 2024). The new APC of €750 shall apply from 1 January 2025 (for new manuscripts only). This fee is used to cover the costs of manuscript processing.
Publication Ethics and Editorial Policies
Detailed information on Editorial Policy, Publication Ethics, Instructions for Authors etc. can be found in the Supplementary Materials section.
For more information on De Gruyter Publishing Ethics, please see the De Gruyter Guidelines online here.
Conferences and Journal Partners
https://conference.unizd.hr/ene2025/
2nd Conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe (ENE2025), May 22–25, 2025, Zadar, Croatia.
Call for Papers
Open Archaeology invites individual authors and groups of researchers to submit their articles as well as proposals for edited volumes to be considered as Special Issues. To propose a Special Issue, please use the proposal form.
Completed Special Issues
- Challenging Digital Archaeology
Coordinating Editors: Jeremy Huggett and Davide Tanasi - Advances in Arctic Archaeology (Part I, II)
Coordinating Editors: Peter Whitridge and Max Friesen - Aspects of non-professional metal detecting in Europe
Coordinating Editors: Pieterjan Deckers, Michael Lewis and Suzie Thomas - Understanding diversity in Neolithic Houses and Households
Coordinating Editors: Joanna Pyzel, Penny Bickle, Ben Chan, Lech Czerniak, Christina Tsoraki - Uncovering Historical Routes for Sustainable Mobility: Methods, Tools and Case Studies
Coordinating Editors: Cinzia Tavernari and Carlo Citter - Portable XRF in Archaeology and Museum Studies
Coordinating Editors: Davide Tanasi, Robert Tykot and Andrea Vianello - Exploring Advances in the Use of 3D Models of Objects in Archaeological Research
Coordinating Editor: Barry Molloy - From Line to Colour: Social Context and Visual Communication of Prehistoric Art
Coordinating Editors: Liliana Janik and Simon Kaner - The Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empiree
Coordinating Editor: Mateusz Żmudziński - Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
Coordinating Editors: Giorgos Papantoniou, Apostolos Sarris, Christine E. Morris, Athanasios K. Vionis - Scientific Studies of Obsidian Sources and Trade
Coordinating Editors: Robert H. Tykot, Maria Clara Martinelli, Andrea Vianello - The Black Gold That Came from the Sea. Advances in the Studies of Obsidian Sources and Artifacts of the Central Mediterranean Area (Part I, II)
Coordinating Editors: Franco Italiano, Franco Foresta Martin, Maria Clara Martinelli - Archaeological Practice on Shifting Grounds
Coordinating Editors: Åsa Berggren, Antonia Davidsonach-Walther - Art, Creativity and Automation. Sharing 3D Visualization Practices in Archaeology
Coordinating Editors: Loes Opgenhaffen, Martina Revello Lami, Hayley Mickleburgh - At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Malta and the Central Mediterranean During the Roman Period
Coordinating Editors: David Cardona, Davide Tanasi, Robert Brown - Special Issue published in cooperation with the 1st Conference on the EARLY NEOLITHIC of EUROPE (Part I, II)
Coordinating Editors: Ferran Borrell, Ignacio Clemente, Miriam Cubas, Juan J. Ibáñez, Niccolò Mazzucco, Ariadna Nieto, Marta Portillo, Xavier Terradas & Silvia Valenzuela - Special Issue Published in Cooperation with Meso’2020 – Tenth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe (Part I, II)
Coordinating Editors: Thomas Perrin, Benjamin Marquebielle, Sylvie Philibert, and Nicolas Valdeyron - What is New in the Neolithic? – A Special Issue Dedicated to Lech Czerniak
Coordinating Editors: Joanna Pyzel, Katarzyna Inga Michalak, & Marek Z. Barański - Digital Methods and Typology
Coordinating Editors: Gianpiero Di Maida, Christian Horn, & Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida - Scales of Interaction in the Bronze and Iron Age Central Mediterranean
Coordinating Editors: Emily Holt, Davide Schirru - Archaeology of Migration: Moving Beyond Historical Paradigms
Coordinating Editors: Catharine Judson, Hagit Nol - Bricks Under the Scope: Microscopic and Macroscopic Approaches to the Study of Earthen Architecture
Coordinating Editors: Marta Lorenzon, Moritz Kinzel, Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria - Ancient Cultural Routes: Past Transportations Infrastructures as a Two-Way Interaction between Society and Environment
Coordinating Editors: Francesca Fulminante, Francesca Mazzilli, Franziska Engelbogen - Past Sounds: New Perspectives in the Field of Archaeoacoustics
Coordinating Editors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Neemias Santos da Rosa
Journal Impact Factor | 0.9 | 2023, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2024) |
5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.0 | 2023, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2024) |
Journal Citation Indicator | 0.75 | 2023, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2024) |
CiteScore | 1.7 | 2023, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2024) |
SCImago Journal Rank | 0.381 | 2023, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2024; Data Source: Scopus) |
Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.576 | 2023, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2024; Data Source: Scopus) |
Index Copernicus Value | 121.67 | 2022, ICI Journals Master List (Index Copernicus, 2023) |
MANUSCRIPTS
Open Archaeology encourages the submission of substantial full-length bodies of work. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.
Manuscripts must be submitted to the journal via online submission system Editorial Manager available at http://www.editorialmanager.com/opar/Default.aspx. In case of problems, please contact Editorial Office of the journal at AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com.
Submission of Manuscripts
Our contributors are asked to make sure their submissions comply with rules governing the formatting. For your initial submission, we recommend you upload your entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. If you are invited to submit a revised manuscript, please provide us with individual files: an editable text and publication-quality figures.
For further instructions, please carefully follow the guidelines described in Instructions for Authors.
Publication Fees
Article accepted for publication in Open Archaeology is subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC).
EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. See Editorial Policy for details.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the Open Access License that is available on the webpage. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials if requested by Referees, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.
Editor-in-Chief
Joakim Goldhahn, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Managing Editor
Katarzyna Inga Michalak
katarzyna-inga.michalak@degruyterbrill.com
Editorial Contact
Assistant Managing Editor
Kumaran Rengaswamy
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com
Editors:
Archaeological heritage preservation and management:
Francesco Gabellone, National Research Council, Italy
Veysel Apaydin, University College London, UK
Archaeological science:
Marian Berihuete, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Rebecca Crozier, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ben Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Richard Madgwick, Cardiff University, UK
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, USA
Theory and interpretation in archaeology:
Michał Pawleta, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Katarzyna Ślusarska, University of Szczecin, Poland
Christian Iaia, Independent Researcher, Italy
Marta Díaz-Guardamino Uribe, Durham University, UK
World Archaeology:
Manuel Fernández-Götz, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marianne Hem Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway
Ioannis Georganas, Independent Researcher, Greece
Bisserka Gaydarska, University of Durham, UK
Tobias Richter, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ruth Young, University of Leicester, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Peter Akkermans, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Susan Alcock, Brown University, USA
Gilda Bartoloni, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
László Bartosiewicz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Knut A. Bergsvik, University of Bergen, Norway
Wojciech Blajer, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Andrzej Buko, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Alberto Cazzella, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Eric H. Cline, The George Washington University, USA
Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Michael Galaty, Mississippi State University, USA
Cornelius Holtorf, Linnaeus University, Sweden
An Jiayao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Peter Jordan, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Donna Kurtz, University of Oxford, UK
Maria Lityńska-Zając, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Li Liu, Stanford University, USA
Daniel Makowiecki, The Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Krzysztof Makowski, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Lima, Peru
Lynn Meskell, Stanford University, USA
Vito Messina, Università di Torino, Italy
Sarunas Milisauskas, State University of New York, University at Buffalo, USA
Peter Mitchell, University of Oxford, UK
Bjørnar J. Olsen, University of Tromsø, Norway
Marcel Otte, Universite de Liege, Belgium
Eric Poehler, University of Massachussets, USA
Miriam Stark, University of Hawaii, USA
Lucijana Šešelj, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Robert H. Tykot, University of South Florida, USA
Peter S. Wells, University of Minnesota, USA
Editorial Assistants
Michał Kowalczyk, De Gruyter Poland
Magdalena Skoneczna, De Gruyter Poland
Publisher
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