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Cultural Anthropology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0886-7356Verify ISSN ↗1548-1360Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 100 / 536 | 81st | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 158 / 692 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Cultural Anthropology is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 100 of 536) and Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 158 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Cultural 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.789, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 102.
Cultural Anthropology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0886-7356 and its online ISSN is 1548-1360.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cultural Anthropology has an h-index of 152 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #120 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 53. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.8%), United Kingdom (17.7%) and Canada (6.5%).
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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