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Best Classics journals

195 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Classics. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 49 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 1.9 99th Q1 – – No
2 Journal of Roman Studies 1.9 99th Q1 AHCI – No
3 Journal of Classics Teaching 1.5 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
4 Journal of Roman Archaeology 1.5 98th Q1 AHCI – No
5 Hesperia 1.4 97th Q1 AHCI – No
6 Journal of Late Antiquity 1.4 97th Q1 ESCI – No
7 TAPA 1.3 96th Q1 – – No
8 Annual of the British School at Athens 1.1 96th Q1 AHCI – No
9 American Journal of Philology 1.1 95th Q1 AHCI – No
10 Opuscula 1.1 95th Q1 AHCI – No
11 Klio 1.1 94th Q1 – – No
12 Studies in Digital Heritage 1.1 94th Q1 – – Yes
13 Studies in Late Antiquity 1.1 93th Q1 – – No
14 Classical Antiquity 1 93th Q1 AHCI – No
15 Cambridge Classical Journal 1 92th Q1 AHCI – No
16 Classical Philology 1 92th Q1 AHCI – No
17 Journal of Hellenic Studies 1 91th Q1 AHCI – No
18 Melanges de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome:Antiquite 1 91th Q1 – – No
19 Brill's Plato Studies Series 0.9 90th Q1 – – No
20 Mediterranea 0.9 90th Q1 – – Yes
21 Kadmos 0.9 89th Q1 – – No
22 Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 0.9 89th Q1 – – No
23 Chiron 0.9 88th Q1 – – No
24 Pyrenae 0.9 88th Q1 – – Yes
25 Brill's Companions to Classical Studies 0.8 87th Q1 – – No
26 Iraq 0.8 86th Q1 – – No
27 Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic 0.8 86th Q1 – – No
28 Ancient Philosophy 0.8 85th Q1 – – No
29 Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte 0.8 85th Q1 AHCI – No
30 Classical Receptions Journal 0.8 84th Q1 AHCI – No
31 PASIPHAE 0.7 84th Q1 – – No
32 Afghanistan 0.7 83th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Polis (United Kingdom) 0.7 83th Q1 AHCI – No
34 Arethusa 0.7 82th Q1 AHCI – No
35 Greek and Roman Musical Studies 0.7 82th Q1 – – No
36 Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 0.7 81th Q1 ESCI – Yes
37 Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 0.6 81th Q1 – – No
38 Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi 0.6 80th Q1 ESCI – No
39 Britannia (Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies) 0.6 80th Q1 AHCI – No
40 Elenchos 0.6 79th Q1 – – No
41 Novum Testamentum 0.6 79th Q1 AHCI – No
42 International Journal of the Classical Tradition 0.6 78th Q1 AHCI – No
43 Starinar 0.6 78th Q1 – – Yes
44 Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 0.6 77th Q1 – – No
45 Impact of Empire 0.6 77th Q1 – – No
46 Electrum 0.6 76th Q1 – – Yes
47 Helios 0.6 76th Q1 AHCI – No
48 Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie III: Historia Medieval 0.6 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
49 Orizzonti 0.6 75th Q1 ESCI – No
50 Veleia 0.6 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
51 Ancient Near Eastern Studies 0.5 74th Q2 ESCI – No
52 Glotta - Zeitschrift fur Griechische und Lateinische Sprache 0.5 73th Q2 AHCI – No
53 Greece and Rome 0.5 73th Q2 AHCI – No
54 Ancient History Bulletin 0.5 72th Q2 – – No
55 Antichthon 0.5 71th Q2 AHCI – No
56 Gephyra 0.5 71th Q2 – – Yes
57 Scrinium 0.5 71th Q2 – – No
58 Libri (Turkey) 0.5 70th Q2 – – No
59 Atlante Tematico di Topografia Antica 0.5 69th Q2 – – No
60 Philosophy as a Way of Life 0.5 69th Q2 – – No
61 Scripta Classica Israelica 0.5 69th Q2 – – No
62 Classical Journal 0.5 68th Q2 AHCI – No
63 Mnemosyne, Supplements 0.5 68th Q2 – – No
64 Antiqvorvm Philosophia 0.5 67th Q2 ESCI – No
65 Trends in Classics 0.5 67th Q2 AHCI – No
66 Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 0.5 66th Q2 ESCI – No
67 Studies in Ancient Medicine 0.4 66th Q2 – – No
68 Graeco-Latina Brunensia 0.4 65th Q2 – – Yes
69 Zeitschrift fur Antikes Christentum 0.4 65th Q2 AHCI – No
70 Byzantina Symmeikta 0.4 64th Q2 – – Yes
71 Classical Quarterly 0.4 64th Q2 AHCI – No
72 Acta Musei Napocensis 0.4 63th Q2 – – No
73 Ancient Society 0.4 63th Q2 – – No
74 Logeion 0.4 62th Q2 – – No
75 Annuario della Scuola di Archeologica Italiana di Atene e delle missioni italiane in Oriente 0.4 61th Q2 – – No
76 Schole 0.4 61th Q2 ESCI – Yes
77 Classical World 0.4 60th Q2 AHCI – No
78 Dionysius 0.4 60th Q2 – – No
79 Archaeological Reports 0.4 59th Q2 AHCI – No
80 Erga-Logoi 0.4 59th Q2 – – Yes
81 Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 0.4 58th Q2 – – No
82 Vox Patrum 0.4 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
83 Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 0.4 57th Q2 AHCI – Yes
84 Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta 0.4 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
85 Mnemosyne 0.4 56th Q2 AHCI – No
86 Potestas 0.4 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
87 Babesch 0.4 55th Q2 – – No
88 Emerita 0.4 55th Q2 AHCI – Yes
89 Archeologia Classica 0.4 54th Q2 – – No
90 Lexis Supplementi: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature 0.4 54th Q2 – – No
91 Axon (Italy) 0.4 53th Q2 – – Yes
92 Cahiers des Etudes Anciennes 0.3 53th Q2 ESCI – Yes
93 Brill''s Plutarch Studies 0.3 52th Q2 – – No
94 Philologia Classica 0.3 52th Q2 ESCI – No
95 Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 0.3 51th Q2 – – No
96 Classica et Mediaevalia 0.3 51th Q2 – – No
97 Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 0.3 50th Q2 AHCI – No
98 Clotho 0.3 50th Q2 – – Yes
99 Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation 0.3 49th Q3 – – No
100 Hyperboreus 0.3 49th Q3 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Classics Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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