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Rock Art Research

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Rock Art Research
DisciplineArt
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History1984 to present
Publisher
Australian Rock Art Research Association and theInternational Federation of Rock Art Organizations(Australia)
FrequencyBiannual
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Rock Art Res.
Indexing
ISSN0813-0426
Links

Rock Art Researchis a biannualpeer-reviewedacademic journalcoveringrock artand other forms of paleoart. It is published by theInternational Federation of Rock Art Organizations(IFRAO) and theAustralian Rock Art Research Association (AURA)and was established in 1984. It is the only refereed journal specifically dedicated to the field of prehistoric art and is listed by several indexing services and by rating agencies such as Scopus (Cite Score 0.44, SJR 0.276, SNIP 0.625).

Rock Art Researchis distributed worldwide and as of December 2016, has published 1218 signed contributions by a total of over 350 authors. The journal bridges numerous disciplines, including geochemistry, geomorphology, art history, ethnography, conservation science, human evolution, anthropology, archaeology, semiotics and others, with an editorial emphasis on the hard sciences. It has been instrumental in guiding the discipline for a third of a century.

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