Success in academic archaeology is strongly influenced by the publication of peer-reviewed articles. Despite the importance of such articles, minimal research has explicitly examined the factors influencing publishing decisions in archaeology. In order to better understand the landscape of archaeological publishing, we distributed a short survey that solicited basic professional and demographic information before asking respondents to (1) identify journals that publish important archaeological research, (2) identify journals that people who read archaeological academic CVs value most highly, and (3) rank the factors that affected their decisions about where to submit an article for publication. Our results from 274 respondents generated a list of 167 individual journal titles. Prestige was viewed as the most important factor that affected publishing decisions, followed by audience and open access considerations. There was no relationship between respondent-generated journal rankings and SCImago Journal Ranks (SJR), but there were significant differences in average SJR by gender and career stage. Responses showed consensus on only a small number of highly ranked archaeology and science-subject journals, with little agreement on the importance of most other journals. We conclude by highlighting the areas of disciplinary consensus and divergence revealed by the survey and by discussing how implicit prestige hierarchies permeate academic archaeology.

学术考古学的成功受到同行评议文章发表的强烈影响。尽管此类文章很重要，但很少有研究明确研究了影响考古学出版决策的因素。为了更好地了解考古出版的格局，我们发布了一份简短的调查，在要求受访者 (1) 确定发表重要考古研究的期刊，(2) 确定阅读考古学术简历的人的期刊之前，该调查征求了基本的专业和人口统计信息价值最高，并且 (3) 对影响他们决定将文章提交到何处发表的因素进行排名。我们对 274 名受访者的结果生成了一份包含 167 个单独期刊名称的列表。声望被视为影响出版决策的最重要因素，其次是受众和开放获取考虑因素。受访者生成的期刊排名与 SCImago 期刊排名 (SJR) 之间没有关系，但平均 SJR 因性别和职业阶段存在显着差异。回应表明，只有少数排名靠前的考古学和科学学科期刊达成共识，对大多数其他期刊的重要性几乎没有达成共识。最后，我们强调了调查所揭示的学科共识和分歧领域，并讨论了隐性声望等级如何渗透到学术考古学中。但不同性别和职业阶段的平均 SJR 存在显着差异。回应表明，只有少数排名靠前的考古学和科学学科期刊达成共识，对大多数其他期刊的重要性几乎没有达成共识。最后，我们强调了调查所揭示的学科共识和分歧领域，并讨论了隐性声望等级如何渗透到学术考古学中。但不同性别和职业阶段的平均 SJR 存在显着差异。回应表明，只有少数排名靠前的考古学和科学学科期刊达成共识，对大多数其他期刊的重要性几乎没有达成共识。最后，我们强调了调查所揭示的学科共识和分歧领域，并讨论了隐性声望等级如何渗透到学术考古学中。