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Best Anthropology journals

535 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Anthropology. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 134 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Journal of Consumer Research 13.9 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
2 Journal of Peasant Studies 11.7 99th Q1 SSCI – No
3 Science Technology and Human Values 8.1 99th Q1 SSCI A No
4 Human Communication Research 8 99th Q1 SSCI – No
5 Games and Culture 7.3 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
6 Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 7.1 98th Q1 SSCI – No
7 Evolutionary Anthropology 6.7 98th Q1 SSCI – No
8 Journal of Agrarian Change 6.7 98th Q1 SSCI – No
9 Race and Justice 6.7 98th Q1 SSCI – No
10 Journal of Ethnic Foods 6.6 98th Q1 – – Yes
11 Annual Review of Anthropology 6.4 98th Q1 SSCI – No
12 Journal of Marriage and Family 6.4 97th Q1 SSCI – No
13 Social Networks 6.3 97th Q1 SSCI – No
14 Social Forces 6.2 97th Q1 SSCI A No
15 Journal of Human Evolution 6.1 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
16 Journal of Physiological Anthropology 6.1 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
17 Chinese Sociological Review 5.8 96th Q1 SSCI – No
18 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5.7 96th Q1 SSCI – No
19 Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 5.6 96th Q1 SSCI A No
20 Environment and Society: Advances in Research 5.5 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
21 Ethnic and Racial Studies 5.5 96th Q1 SSCI – No
22 Journal of Black Psychology 4.9 95th Q1 SSCI – No
23 Consumption Markets and Culture 4.8 95th Q1 SSCI B No
24 Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 4.8 95th Q1 ESCI – No
25 Sexualities 4.8 95th Q1 SSCI – No
26 Journal of Language and Social Psychology 4.7 95th Q1 SSCI – No
27 Identities 4.6 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
28 Ethnos 4.6 94th Q1 SSCI – No
29 Journal of Language and Sexuality 4.6 94th Q1 ESCI – No
30 Journal of Human Trafficking 4.5 94th Q1 – – No
31 Cross-Cultural Research 4.4 94th Q1 SSCI – No
32 Identity 4.4 94th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Anthrozoos 4.3 93rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
34 Journal of International Migration and Integration 4.2 93rd Q1 ESCI C No
35 American Ethnologist 4.2 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
36 El-Usrah 4.2 93rd Q1 – – No
37 Evolutionary Human Sciences 4.1 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
38 Forensic Sciences Research 4.1 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
39 Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 4 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
40 Race and Social Problems 4 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
41 American Anthropologist 3.9 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
42 Feminist Anthropology 3.9 92nd Q1 ESCI – No
43 Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 3.9 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
44 American Journal of Biological Anthropology 3.8 91st Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
45 International Journal of Society, Culture and Language 3.8 91st Q1 – – No
46 Mind, Culture, and Activity 3.8 91st Q1 SSCI – No
47 Race and Class 3.8 91st Q1 SSCI – No
48 World Englishes 3.8 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
49 Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3.8 90th Q1 – – No
50 Social Justice Research 3.7 90th Q1 SSCI B No
51 Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 3.7 90th Q1 ESCI – No
52 Qualitative Inquiry 3.7 90th Q1 SSCI – No
53 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3.6 90th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
54 Journal of Anthropological Sciences 3.6 90th Q1 SSCI – No
55 Anthropological Theory 3.6 89th Q1 SSCI – No
56 Culture and Evolution 3.6 89th Q1 – – No
57 Ethnography 3.5 89th Q1 SSCI – No
58 Journal of Psychedelic Studies 3.5 89th Q1 ESCI – Yes
59 Social Anthropology 3.5 89th Q1 SSCI – Yes
60 American Journal of Human Biology 3.5 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
61 Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 3.4 88th Q1 – – Yes
62 Anthropology Today 3.4 88th Q1 ESCI – No
63 Medical Anthropology Quarterly 3.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
64 Personal Relationships 3.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
65 Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 3.4 87th Q1 SSCI – No
66 Human Nature 3.4 87th Q1 SSCI – No
67 Queensland Archaeological Research 3.4 87th Q1 – – No
68 Cultural Studies 3.3 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
69 Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 3.3 87th Q1 SSCI – No
70 Anthropology and Medicine 3.2 87th Q1 SSCI – No
71 Childhood 3.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
72 Human Ecology 3.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
73 Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 3.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
74 Lithic Technology 3.1 86th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
75 Discourse Studies 3 86th Q1 SSCI A No
76 Critique of Anthropology 3 85th Q1 SSCI – No
77 Du Bois Review 3 85th Q1 SSCI – No
78 Ethnobiology and Conservation 3 85th Q1 ESCI – No
79 Field Methods 3 85th Q1 SSCI – No
80 Focaal 3 85th Q1 SSCI – Yes
81 Asian Journal of Ethnobiology 2.9 84th Q1 – – No
82 Current Anthropology 2.9 84th Q1 SSCI – No
83 Environmental Humanities 2.9 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
84 Ethos 2.9 84th Q1 SSCI – No
85 Economic Anthropology 2.8 84th Q1 SSCI – No
86 International Journal of Tourism Anthropology 2.8 84th Q1 – – No
87 Research in Economic Anthropology 2.8 83rd Q1 – – No
88 Canadian Journal of African Studies 2.7 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
89 Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics 2.7 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
90 Journal of Tourism Theory and Research 2.7 83rd Q1 – – No
91 Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 2.7 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
92 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2.7 82nd Q1 SSCI – No
93 Anthropology and Education Quarterly 2.6 82nd Q1 SSCI – No
94 Critical Philosophy of Race 2.6 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
95 Journal of Ethnobiology 2.6 82nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
96 Journal of Race Ethnicity and the City 2.6 82nd Q1 – – No
97 African Identities 2.5 81st Q1 – – No
98 Archaeology in Oceania 2.5 81st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
99 Cultural Anthropology 2.5 81st Q1 SSCI – Yes
100 Journal of the International Phonetic Association 2.5 81st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
101 Food and Foodways 2.4 81st Q1 ESCI – No
102 New Research of Tuva 2.4 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
103 Asian Journal of Social Science 2.4 80th Q1 SSCI C No
104 American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research 2.4 80th Q1 SSCI – No
105 Fat Studies 2.4 80th Q1 ESCI – No
106 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2.4 80th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
107 AlterNative 2.3 80th Q1 ESCI – No
108 Anthropology of Consciousness 2.3 79th Q1 ESCI – No
109 Geographica Helvetica 2.3 79th Q1 – – Yes
110 Heritage and Society 2.3 79th Q1 ESCI – No
111 Migration and Society 2.3 79th Q1 – – Yes
112 Nordic Journal of Social Research 2.3 79th Q1 – – Yes
113 Acta Borealia 2.2 79th Q1 AHCI – No
114 Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 2.2 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
115 HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology 2.2 78th Q1 SSCI – Yes
116 Journal of Organizational Ethnography 2.1 78th Q1 ESCI C No
117 Culture and Psychology 2.1 78th Q1 SSCI – No
118 Journal of Material Culture 2.1 78th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
119 Anthropology of Work Review 2.1 77th Q1 ESCI – No
120 Forensic Anthropology 2.1 77th Q1 – – No
121 Journal of Applied Youth Studies 2.1 77th Q1 – – No
122 South Asian Diaspora 2.1 77th Q1 ESCI – No
123 Trunojoyo Law Review 2 77th Q1 – – No
124 Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 2 76th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
125 Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 2 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
126 Humans 2 76th Q1 – – Yes
127 IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2 76th Q1 – – No
128 Traditiones 2 76th Q1 – – Yes
129 TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 2 76th Q1 ESCI – No
130 Comparative Southeast European Studies 1.9 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
131 History and Anthropology 1.9 75th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
132 Indonesia and the Malay World 1.9 75th Q1 AHCI – No
133 International Journal of Cultural Property 1.9 75th Q1 ESCI – No
134 Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1.9 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
135 Asiascape: Digital Asia 1.9 74th Q2 ESCI – No
136 Journal of Black Studies 1.9 74th Q2 SSCI – No
137 Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 1.9 74th Q2 ESCI – No
138 Public Journal of Semiotics 1.9 74th Q2 – – No
139 Revista de Artes Marciales Asiaticas 1.9 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
140 Anthropologie (France) 1.8 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
141 Biodemography and Social Biology 1.8 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
142 Journal of Anthropological Research 1.8 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
143 Journal of Comparative Family Studies 1.8 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
144 Journal of Eastern African Studies 1.8 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
145 Journal of Population and Social Studies 1.8 73rd Q2 – – No
146 Journal of Al-Tamaddun 1.8 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
147 Dialectical Anthropology 1.7 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
148 Documenta Praehistorica 1.7 72nd Q2 – – Yes
149 Ethnoarchaeology 1.7 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
150 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 1.7 72nd Q2 SSCI – No
151 Africa 1.7 71st Q2 SSCI – No
152 Conflict and Society 1.7 71st Q2 – – Yes
153 Latin American Research Review 1.7 71st Q2 SSCI – Yes
154 Open Quaternary 1.7 71st Q2 – – Yes
155 Visual Studies 1.7 71st Q2 AHCI – No
156 Anthropological Forum 1.7 70th Q2 SSCI – No
157 Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences 1.7 70th Q2 ESCI – No
158 Ethnologia Europaea 1.6 70th Q2 – – Yes
159 Multicultural Education Review 1.6 70th Q2 ESCI – No
160 Museum Anthropology 1.6 70th Q2 ESCI – No
161 Social Compass 1.6 70th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
162 Anthropology and Aging 1.6 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
163 International Quarterly for Asian Studies 1.6 69th Q2 – – Yes
164 Public Anthropologist 1.6 69th Q2 ESCI – No
165 Secularism and Nonreligion 1.6 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
166 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 1.6 69th Q2 SCIE – No
167 African Studies Review 1.6 68th Q2 SSCI – No
168 Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 1.5 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
169 Estudios Fronterizos 1.5 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
170 International Indigenous Policy Journal 1.5 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
171 International Journal of Play 1.5 68th Q2 ESCI – No
172 Transforming Anthropology 1.5 68th Q2 ESCI – No
173 Anthropological Quarterly 1.5 67th Q2 SSCI – No
174 Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 1.5 67th Q2 ESCI – No
175 DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies 1.5 67th Q2 – – Yes
176 Shima 1.5 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
177 Social Text 1.5 67th Q2 ESCI – No
178 Nomadic Peoples 1.5 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
179 Ager 1.4 66th Q2 ESCI – No
180 Human Organization 1.4 66th Q2 SSCI – No
181 International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology 1.4 66th Q2 – – Yes
182 Social Analysis 1.4 66th Q2 SSCI – Yes
183 Anthropological Science 1.4 65th Q2 SCIE – No
184 Anthropology Southern Africa 1.4 65th Q2 SSCI – No
185 Asian Perspectives 1.4 65th Q2 AHCI – No
186 Childhood in the Past 1.4 65th Q2 ESCI – No
187 Chungara 1.4 65th Q2 SSCI – No
188 Interventions 1.4 65th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
189 PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural 1.4 64th Q2 ESCI C Yes
190 Interpersona 1.4 64th Q2 – – Yes
191 Iconos 1.3 64th Q2 ESCI – Yes
192 Journal of Marine and Island Cultures 1.3 64th Q2 – – Yes
193 African Studies 1.3 63rd Q2 SSCI – No
194 Annals of Anthropological Practice 1.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
195 Anthropologischer Anzeiger 1.3 63rd Q2 SSCI – No
196 Canadian Ethnic Studies 1.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
197 Oriental Anthropologist 1.3 63rd Q2 – – No
198 Settler Colonial Studies 1.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
199 Anthropological Review 1.3 62nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
200 Israel Studies 1.3 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
201 Journal for Cultural Research 1.3 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
202 Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 1.3 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
203 Small Business International Review 1.3 62nd Q2 – – Yes
204 Time and Mind 1.3 62nd Q2 AHCI – No
205 Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 1.2 61st Q2 SSCI – No
206 Ethnomusicology Forum 1.2 61st Q2 AHCI – No
207 Intersecciones en Antropologia 1.2 61st Q2 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
208 Middle Kingdom Studies 1.2 61st Q2 – – No
209 Oceania 1.2 61st Q2 SSCI – No
210 Asian Anthropology 1.2 60th Q2 – – No
211 Asian Ethnology 1.2 60th Q2 AHCI – No
212 Dialogo Andino 1.2 60th Q2 – – No
213 Discover Global Society 1.2 60th Q2 – – Yes
214 Iran 1.2 60th Q2 AHCI – No
215 Anthropozoologica 1.2 59th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
216 Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 1.2 59th Q2 SSCI – No
217 Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris 1.1 59th Q2 – – Yes
218 Estudios Atacamenos 1.1 59th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
219 Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 1.1 59th Q2 – – No
220 Social Evolution and History 1.1 59th Q2 ESCI – No
221 Boletin del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino 1.1 58th Q2 AHCI – Yes
222 Journal of Tourism Analysis 1.1 58th Q2 – – Yes
223 Open Library of Humanities 1.1 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
224 Religion and Gender 1.1 58th Q2 – – No
225 Visual Anthropology Review 1.1 58th Q2 ESCI – No
226 Dental Anthropology 1.1 57th Q2 – – Yes
227 Feminist Encounters 1.1 57th Q2 – – Yes
228 Journal of War and Culture Studies 1.1 57th Q2 ESCI – No
229 Sibirica 1.1 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
230 Tourism Social Science Series 1.1 57th Q2 – – No
231 Anthropology in Action 1.1 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
232 Journal of Mekong Societies 1.1 56th Q2 – – No
233 Panta Rei 1.1 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
234 Revista de Antropologia 1.1 56th Q2 – – Yes
235 Sojourn 1.1 56th Q2 ESCI – No
236 Cosmopolitan Civil Societies 1 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
237 Hunter Gatherer Research 1 55th Q2 – – No
238 Inner Asia 1 55th Q2 ESCI – No
239 International Journal of Taiwan Studies 1 55th Q2 ESCI – No
240 Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 1 55th Q2 ESCI – Yes
241 Modern Italy 1 55th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
242 Caucasus Survey 1 54th Q2 ESCI – No
243 Contemporary Jewry 1 54th Q2 – – No
244 Dotawo 1 54th Q2 – – Yes
245 HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 1 54th Q2 SSCI – No
246 Journal of Autoethnography 1 54th Q2 – – No
247 Southern African Humanities 1 54th Q2 AHCI – No
248 Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi: Ciencias Humanas 1 53rd Q2 – – Yes
249 Ethnologia Polona 1 53rd Q2 – – Yes
250 Narrative Culture 1 53rd Q2 ESCI – No
251 Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies 1 53rd Q2 – – No
252 Wacana 1 53rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
253 Journal of Family History 1 52nd Q2 SSCI – No
254 Arctic Anthropology 0.9 52nd Q2 SSCI – No
255 Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 0.9 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
256 Etudes Mongoles et Siberiennes, Centrasiatiques et Tibetaines 0.9 52nd Q2 – – No
257 KIVA 0.9 52nd Q2 ESCI – No
258 Journal of Cuneiform Studies 0.9 51st Q2 – – No
259 Journal of Social Ontology 0.9 51st Q2 – – Yes
260 Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 0.9 51st Q2 – – No
261 Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology 0.9 51st Q2 – – No
262 Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences 0.9 51st Q2 – – No
263 Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal 0.9 51st Q2 ESCI – Yes
264 Cuneiform Monographs 0.9 50th Q2 – – No
265 Ethnomusicology 0.9 50th Q2 AHCI – No
266 Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8, Uralic and Central Asian Studies 0.9 50th Q2 – – No
267 Meridians 0.9 50th Q2 ESCI – No
268 Urbanities 0.9 50th Q2 ESCI – No
269 Rock Art Research 0.9 49th Q3 AHCI – No
270 Horizontes Antropologicos 0.8 49th Q3 – – Yes
271 Journal of Chinese Overseas 0.8 49th Q3 ESCI – No
272 Slovensky Narodopis 0.8 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
273 Society and Culture in South Asia 0.8 49th Q3 – – No
274 Vestnik Archeologii, Antropologii i Etnografii 0.8 49th Q3 – – Yes
275 Etnografia 0.8 48th Q3 – – No
276 Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa 0.8 48th Q3 – – No
277 Etnoloska Tribina 0.8 48th Q3 ESCI – Yes
278 Journal of Africana Religions 0.8 48th Q3 ESCI – No
279 Journal of Muslims in Europe 0.8 48th Q3 – – No
280 Anthropological Notebooks 0.8 47th Q3 SSCI – No
281 Culture Unbound 0.8 47th Q3 – – Yes
282 International Journal of Latin American Religions 0.8 47th Q3 ESCI – No
283 Jewish Social Studies 0.8 47th Q3 ESCI – No
284 Visual Anthropology 0.8 47th Q3 ESCI – No
285 Antipoda 0.8 46th Q3 – – Yes
286 Comechingonia 0.8 46th Q3 ESCI – Yes
287 Disparidades. Revista de Antropologia 0.8 46th Q3 AHCI – Yes
288 Ethnologia Fennica 0.8 46th Q3 – – No
289 Mana: Estudos de Antropologia Social 0.8 46th Q3 – – Yes
290 Language, Discourse and Society 0.8 45th Q3 – – Yes
291 MAI Journal 0.8 45th Q3 – – No
292 Australian Journal of Anthropology 0.7 45th Q3 SSCI – No
293 Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 0.7 45th Q3 SSCI – No
294 Mankind Quarterly 0.7 45th Q3 – – No
295 National Cultivation of Culture 0.7 45th Q3 – – No
296 Afghanistan 0.7 44th Q3 ESCI – No
297 International Journal of Community Diversity 0.7 44th Q3 – – No
298 Narodna Umjetnost 0.7 44th Q3 – – Yes
299 Revista Argentina de Antropologia Biologica 0.7 44th Q3 – – Yes
300 Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales 0.7 44th Q3 – – Yes

All remaining Anthropology journals (235)

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