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Annual Review of Anthropology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Annual Reviews Inc..
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ISSN 0084-6570Verify ISSN ↗1545-4290Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 19 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 11 / 536 | 98th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 39 / 692 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1994, 1991, 1988, 1980–1986), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Annual Review of Anthropology is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 19 of 1434), Q1 in Anthropology (rank 11 of 536) and Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 39 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Annual Review of Anthropology is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.341, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 157.
Annual Review of Anthropology is published by Annual Reviews Inc. Its print ISSN is 0084-6570 and its online ISSN is 1545-4290.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annual Review of Anthropology has an h-index of 228 and a 2-year mean of 3.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Annual Review of Anthropology published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 37. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (66.8%), United Kingdom (6.3%) and Canada (5.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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