The main aim in this thesis is to analyse the attitudes of five archaeologists at the Department of History, University of Gothenburg, on the subject of scholarly publishing in journals. The investigation has been led by a set of questions concerning the motives and conditions for submitting articles to scholarly journals. The primary way of collecting emprical data is based on semistructured qualitative interviews. To get a broader picture, the publishing patterns of the archaeologists at the Department of History were mapped using the database Göteborgs universitets publikationer (GUP). A document study was also conducted. The analysis uses Björk & Holmström’s The net value of submission model to highlight which factors are assumed to influence an author when submitting to a scientific journal. This model is reduced and developed to six aspects which more or less effect the decision making of the author when publishing an article in a scientific journal. These six aspects are: culture, strategy, medium/form, readership, prestige and performance. The results of the investigation show that a set of factors influence the publishing decision. As a discipline traditionally rooted in the humanities, the archaeologists at the Department of History have established a scientific way of publishing. Motives and attitudes to journal publishing show that all aspects, in varying degrees, are important in deciding where to submit an article.