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Current Anthropology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0011-3204Verify ISSN ↗1537-5382Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 34 / 462 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Archeology | 34 / 388 | 91st | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 81 / 536 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962 (also 1971, 1974, 1978–1988, 1992, 1994, 1996–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Current Anthropology is Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 34 of 462), Q1 in Archeology (rank 34 of 388) and Q1 in Anthropology (rank 81 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Current 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.690, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 145.
Current Anthropology is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0011-3204 and its online ISSN is 1537-5382.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Current Anthropology has an h-index of 209 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 394 Scopus journals in Archeology (arts and humanities).
Current Anthropology published 88 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 136. 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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