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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Peasant Studies	26
2	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	22
3	Journal of Archaeological Science	19
-	Journal of Human Evolution	19
5	Social Networks	18
6	Transcultural Psychiatry	16
-	Annual Review of Anthropology	16
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	16
9	American Anthropologist	14
-	Antiquity	14
-	American Journal of Human Biology	14
-	Current Anthropology	14
13	Evolutionary Anthropology	13
-	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	13
15	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	12
-	Human Ecology	12
17	American Antiquity	11
18	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	10
-	Race & Class	10
-	American Ethnologist	10
-	Cultural Anthropology	10
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	10
-	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	10
-	Journal of Archaeological Research	10
25	Medical Anthropology	9
-	Annals of Human Biology	9
-	Culture Medicine and Psychiatry	9
-	Field Methods	9
-	International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	9
30	Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology	8
-	Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective	8
-	Social Anthropology	8
-	Cultural Studies	8
34	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	7
-	Lithic Technology	7
-	African Archaeological Review	7
-	Anthropologie	7
-	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	7
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	7
-	Economic Anthropology	7
-	Ethnography	7
-	Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology	7
-	Journal of Social Archaeology	7
-	Latin American Antiquity	7
-	Anthropology & Medicine	7
-	Critique of Anthropology	7
47	Archaeology in Oceania	6
-	Ethnos	6
-	HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory	6
-	Journal of Historical Sociology	6

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