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Anthropological Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute for Ethnographic Research.
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ISSN 0003-5491Verify ISSN ↗1534-1518Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute for Ethnographic Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 207 / 692 | 70th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 175 / 536 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Anthropological Quarterly is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 207 of 692) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 175 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Anthropological Quarterly 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.260, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 62.
Anthropological Quarterly is published by Institute for Ethnographic Research. Its print ISSN is 0003-5491 and its online ISSN is 1534-1518.
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 Quarterly has an h-index of 111 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #235 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Anthropological Quarterly published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 84. 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.
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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