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Anthropological Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0066-4677Verify ISSN ↗1469-2902Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 197 / 692 | 71st | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 157 / 536 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–1965 (also 1967–1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1983–1984, 1988–1991, 1993–1995, 2000–2001, 2003–2004, 2007–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Anthropological Forum is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 197 of 692) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 157 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Anthropological Forum 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
Anthropological Forum is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0066-4677 and its online ISSN is 1469-2902.
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.
Anthropological Forum has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Anthropological Forum published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 57. 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 Australia (35.4%), United States (19.3%) and Germany (8.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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