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Critique of Anthropology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0308-275XVerify ISSN ↗1460-3721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 79 / 536 | 85th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 137 / 692 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present (also 1974–1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Critique of Anthropology is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 79 of 536) and Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 137 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Critique 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 3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.339, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Critique of Anthropology is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0308-275X and its online ISSN is 1460-3721.
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.
Critique of Anthropology has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #132 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Critique of Anthropology published 33 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (33.9%), United States (18.9%) and Germany (5.4%).
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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