Palestine Exploration Quarterly

Palestine Exploration Quarterly ( PEQ) is the peer-reviewed journal of the Palestine Exploration Fund, which was established in 1865 as the first scholarly society dedicated to the scientific study of what was then generally known as the Holy Land. In 1869, the Fund through its Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement aimed to illuminate the Bible for its readers with scholarly information about the land of the Bible. PEQ is the Statement's successor and while it remains true to its original brief, it has greatly widened its scope. In spite of its historical title, PEQ is concerned not just with Palestine/the land of Israel, but with the wider region of the Levant - its history, archaeology (including biblical aspects), art, languages, natural and earth ethnology, geography and natural and earth sciences. Its contents include studies of pottery and other artefacts, examination and interpretation of archaeological sites, publications and studies of inscriptions and ancient texts, articles on the history of the Levant, and the publication of archives relating to the exploration of the Levant, together with reports on archaeological work supported by the Fund, and reviews of books. PEQ publishes the work of both established and rising scholars within the field.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Archeology	2009	Q2
Archeology	2010	Q1
Archeology	2011	Q1
Archeology	2012	Q1
Archeology	2013	Q2
Archeology	2014	Q1
Archeology	2015	Q2
Archeology	2016	Q2
Archeology	2017	Q2
Archeology	2018	Q2
Archeology	2019	Q2
Archeology	2020	Q2
Archeology	2021	Q2
Archeology	2022	Q1
Archeology	2023	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2009	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2010	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2011	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2012	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2013	Q2
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2014	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2015	Q2
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2016	Q2
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2017	Q2
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2018	Q2
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2019	Q2
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2020	Q2
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2021	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2022	Q1
Archeology (arts and humanities)	2023	Q1
History	2009	Q1
History	2010	Q1
History	2011	Q1
History	2012	Q1
History	2013	Q1
History	2014	Q1
History	2015	Q1
History	2016	Q2
History	2017	Q1
History	2018	Q1
History	2019	Q1
History	2020	Q1
History	2021	Q1
History	2022	Q1
History	2023	Q1
Religious Studies	2009	Q1
Religious Studies	2010	Q1
Religious Studies	2011	Q1
Religious Studies	2012	Q1
Religious Studies	2013	Q1
Religious Studies	2014	Q1
Religious Studies	2015	Q1
Religious Studies	2016	Q1
Religious Studies	2017	Q1
Religious Studies	2018	Q1
Religious Studies	2019	Q1
Religious Studies	2020	Q1
Religious Studies	2021	Q1
Religious Studies	2022	Q1
Religious Studies	2023	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2009	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2010	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2011	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2012	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2013	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2014	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2015	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2016	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2017	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2018	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2019	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2020	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2021	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2022	Q1
Visual Arts and Performing Arts	2023	Q1

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
2009	0.288
2010	0.367
2011	0.473
2012	0.481
2013	0.219
2014	0.404
2015	0.299
2016	0.176
2017	0.268
2018	0.207
2019	0.191
2020	0.201
2021	0.332
2022	0.438
2023	0.487

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
2004	8
2005	10
2006	10
2007	16
2008	19
2009	16
2010	17
2011	16
2012	18
2013	27
2014	25
2015	24
2016	21
2017	21
2018	21
2019	20
2020	25
2021	15
2022	25
2023	24

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	0.500
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.278
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.250
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	0.182
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	0.382
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	0.361
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	0.603
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	0.618
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	0.284
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	0.372
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	0.395
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	0.266
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	0.392
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	0.341
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	0.299
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	0.325
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	0.494
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	0.494
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	0.435
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	0.500
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.278
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	0.250
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	0.194
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	0.378
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	0.373
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	0.577
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	0.490
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	0.235
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	0.410
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	0.329
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	0.250
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	0.400
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	0.288
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	0.254
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	0.258
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	0.485
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	0.583
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	0.508
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	0.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.278
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	0.200
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	0.231
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	0.486
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	0.314
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	0.485
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	0.515
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	0.176
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	0.267
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	0.308
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	0.224
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	0.333
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	0.190
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	0.190
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	0.268
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	0.356
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	0.700
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	0.475

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	2004	0
Self Cites	2005	1
Self Cites	2006	0
Self Cites	2007	0
Self Cites	2008	2
Self Cites	2009	4
Self Cites	2010	3
Self Cites	2011	2
Self Cites	2012	4
Self Cites	2013	4
Self Cites	2014	5
Self Cites	2015	3
Self Cites	2016	2
Self Cites	2017	1
Self Cites	2018	2
Self Cites	2019	2
Self Cites	2020	5
Self Cites	2021	5
Self Cites	2022	4
Self Cites	2023	8
Total Cites	2004	0
Total Cites	2005	4
Total Cites	2006	5
Total Cites	2007	7
Total Cites	2008	7
Total Cites	2009	17
Total Cites	2010	19
Total Cites	2011	30
Total Cites	2012	24
Total Cites	2013	12
Total Cites	2014	25
Total Cites	2015	23
Total Cites	2016	19
Total Cites	2017	28
Total Cites	2018	19
Total Cites	2019	16
Total Cites	2020	16
Total Cites	2021	32
Total Cites	2022	35
Total Cites	2023	33

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	2004	0
External Cites per document	2005	0.375
External Cites per document	2006	0.278
External Cites per document	2007	0.250
External Cites per document	2008	0.139
External Cites per document	2009	0.289
External Cites per document	2010	0.314
External Cites per document	2011	0.538
External Cites per document	2012	0.408
External Cites per document	2013	0.157
External Cites per document	2014	0.328
External Cites per document	2015	0.286
External Cites per document	2016	0.224
External Cites per document	2017	0.386
External Cites per document	2018	0.258
External Cites per document	2019	0.222
External Cites per document	2020	0.177
External Cites per document	2021	0.409
External Cites per document	2022	0.517
External Cites per document	2023	0.385
Cites per document	2004	0.000
Cites per document	2005	0.500
Cites per document	2006	0.278
Cites per document	2007	0.250
Cites per document	2008	0.194
Cites per document	2009	0.378
Cites per document	2010	0.373
Cites per document	2011	0.577
Cites per document	2012	0.490
Cites per document	2013	0.235
Cites per document	2014	0.410
Cites per document	2015	0.329
Cites per document	2016	0.250
Cites per document	2017	0.400
Cites per document	2018	0.288
Cites per document	2019	0.254
Cites per document	2020	0.258
Cites per document	2021	0.485
Cites per document	2022	0.583
Cites per document	2023	0.508

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
2004	0.00
2005	0.00
2006	0.00
2007	0.00
2008	0.00
2009	0.00
2010	0.00
2011	0.00
2012	0.00
2013	0.00
2014	0.00
2015	0.00
2016	14.29
2017	0.00
2018	4.76
2019	15.00
2020	28.00
2021	13.33
2022	8.00
2023	29.17

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	2004	0
Non-citable documents	2005	1
Non-citable documents	2006	1
Non-citable documents	2007	1
Non-citable documents	2008	0
Non-citable documents	2009	3
Non-citable documents	2010	6
Non-citable documents	2011	8
Non-citable documents	2012	8
Non-citable documents	2013	7
Non-citable documents	2014	11
Non-citable documents	2015	10
Non-citable documents	2016	9
Non-citable documents	2017	6
Non-citable documents	2018	9
Non-citable documents	2019	13
Non-citable documents	2020	14
Non-citable documents	2021	13
Non-citable documents	2022	12
Non-citable documents	2023	13
Citable documents	2004	0
Citable documents	2005	7
Citable documents	2006	17
Citable documents	2007	27
Citable documents	2008	36
Citable documents	2009	42
Citable documents	2010	45
Citable documents	2011	44
Citable documents	2012	41
Citable documents	2013	44
Citable documents	2014	50
Citable documents	2015	60
Citable documents	2016	67
Citable documents	2017	64
Citable documents	2018	57
Citable documents	2019	50
Citable documents	2020	48
Citable documents	2021	53
Citable documents	2022	48
Citable documents	2023	52

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	2004	0
Uncited documents	2005	5
Uncited documents	2006	14
Uncited documents	2007	23
Uncited documents	2008	31
Uncited documents	2009	34
Uncited documents	2010	36
Uncited documents	2011	35
Uncited documents	2012	33
Uncited documents	2013	41
Uncited documents	2014	46
Uncited documents	2015	56
Uncited documents	2016	59
Uncited documents	2017	52
Uncited documents	2018	53
Uncited documents	2019	50
Uncited documents	2020	51
Uncited documents	2021	45
Uncited documents	2022	39
Uncited documents	2023	47
Cited documents	2004	0
Cited documents	2005	3
Cited documents	2006	4
Cited documents	2007	5
Cited documents	2008	5
Cited documents	2009	11
Cited documents	2010	15
Cited documents	2011	17
Cited documents	2012	16
Cited documents	2013	10
Cited documents	2014	15
Cited documents	2015	14
Cited documents	2016	17
Cited documents	2017	18
Cited documents	2018	13
Cited documents	2019	13
Cited documents	2020	11
Cited documents	2021	21
Cited documents	2022	21
Cited documents	2023	18

% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

Year	Female Percent
2004	11.11
2005	31.25
2006	0.00
2007	33.33
2008	31.58
2009	10.53
2010	11.11
2011	6.25
2012	16.67
2013	24.14
2014	20.00
2015	15.63
2016	24.14
2017	14.29
2018	17.86
2019	13.64
2020	17.95
2021	14.29
2022	18.52
2023	34.04

Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

Documents	Year	Value
Overton	2004	1
Overton	2005	0
Overton	2006	0
Overton	2007	0
Overton	2008	0
Overton	2009	0
Overton	2010	0
Overton	2011	0
Overton	2012	0
Overton	2013	0
Overton	2014	0
Overton	2015	0
Overton	2016	0
Overton	2017	0
Overton	2018	0
Overton	2019	0
Overton	2020	0
Overton	2021	0
Overton	2022	0
Overton	2023	0