Replication report for Marwick (2025) “Is archaeology a science?”, including new data from OpenAlex

This short document is a replication of the first part of Ben Marwick's paper published in Journal of Archaeological Science in June 2025 that analyzes the hard/soft position of archaeology and the evolution through time (Marwick, 2025). This work is based on a bibliometric analysis of the Web of Science data of archaeological journals and articles, when I use the data from OpenAlex, a free and open-source database instead. This work confirms the computational reproducibility of Marwick (2025). Data from OpenAlex also confirms the trends visible in the replicated study both for the hard/soft science categorization, for the evolution through time and for the classification of different journals, with only some minor differences. This study also emphasizes that using the free and open source OpenAlex database is suitable for this kind of scientometric study instead of commercial databases.