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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1359-0987Verify ISSN ↗1467-9655Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,120 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 92 / 536 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 150 / 692 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1995–2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 92 of 536) and Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 150 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.682, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,120 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.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1359-0987 and its online ISSN is 1467-9655.
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.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute has an h-index of 169 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #207 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute published 117 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 258. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (37.4%), United States (19.6%) and Germany (4.9%).
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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