Archival Science

Aims & Scope

Archival Science promotes the development of archival science as an autonomous scientific discipline.

The journal covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practice.

Moreover, it investigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and data.

It also seeks to promote the exchange and comparison of concepts, views and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the world.

Archival Science's approach is integrated, interdisciplinary, and intercultural.

Its scope encompasses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context.

To meet its objectives, the journal draws from scientific disciplines that deal with the function of records and the way they are created, preserved, and retrieved; the context in which information is generated, managed, and used; and the social and cultural environment of records creation at different times and places.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.671

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8523

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	181

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Colonial archives and the arts of governance

  Citation: 557

  Authors: Ann Laura

• Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory

  Citation: 423

  Authors: Joan M., Terry

• Evidence, memory, identity, and community: four shifting archival paradigms

  Citation: 205

  Authors: Terry

• Whose memories, whose archives? Independent community archives, autonomy and the mainstream

  Citation: 181

  Authors: Andrew, Mary, Elizabeth

• The archival sliver: Power, memory, and archives in South Africa

  Citation: 166

  Authors: Verne

• Tacit narratives: The meanings of archives

  Citation: 157

  Authors: Eric

• Archival science and postmodernism: new formulations for old concepts

  Citation: 144

  Authors: Terry

• Participatory archive: towards decentralised curation, radical user orientation, and broader contextualisation of records management

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Isto

• Archives, records, and power: From (postmodern) theory to (archival) performance

  Citation: 111

  Authors: Terry, Joan M.

• Stories and names: Archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings

  Citation: 108

  Authors: Wendy M., Verne

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