Anthropology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Peasant Studies	27
2	Journal of Human Evolution	20
3	Journal of Archaeological Science	19
4	Social Networks	17
5	Annual Review of Anthropology	16
-	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	16
7	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	15
-	American Journal of Human Biology	15
-	Antiquity	15
10	American Anthropologist	14
11	Current Anthropology	13
-	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	13
13	Human Ecology	12
-	Journal of Archaeological Research	12
-	Evolutionary Anthropology	12
-	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	12
-	Transcultural Psychiatry	12
-	American Ethnologist	12
19	Annals of Human Biology	11
20	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	10
-	Social Anthropology	10
-	Cultural Anthropology	10
-	Race & Class	10
24	International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	9
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	9
26	Ethos	8
-	American Antiquity	8
-	Culture Medicine and Psychiatry	8
-	Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective	8
-	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	8
-	Lithic Technology	8
-	Medical Anthropology	8
33	Anthropological Theory	7
-	Critique of Anthropology	7
-	Field Methods	7
-	Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology	7
-	Journal of Social Archaeology	7
-	Latin American Antiquity	7
-	Signs and Society	7
-	Africa	7
-	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	7
-	Archaeology in Oceania	7
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	7
-	Economic Anthropology	7
-	Ethnography	7
-	Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology	7
-	Inter-Asia Cultural Studies	7
-	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	7
-	African Archaeological Review	7
50	Anthropology & Medicine	6

-	Cultural Studies	6
-	Human Organization	6
-	PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review	6
-	Trabajos de Prehistoria	6
-	Anthropologie	6
-	Australian Archaeology	6
-	Ethnos	6
-	HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory	6
59	Anthropologischer Anzeiger	5
-	Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology	5
-	Estudios Atacamenos	5
-	History and Anthropology	5
-	Journal of Material Culture	5
-	Praehistorische Zeitschrift	5
65	Journal of Anthropological Research	4
-	Public Culture	4
-	Anthropological Forum	4
-	Anthropology Southern Africa	4
-	Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology	4
-	Oceania	4
-	Social Analysis	4
72	Australian Journal of Anthropology	3
-	Ethnohistory	3
-	Journal of Historical Sociology	3
-	AIBR-Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana	3
-	Bijdragen Tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde	3
-	Journal of Family History	3
78	Anthropos	2
-	Chungara-Revista de Antropologia Chilena	2
-	Magallania	2