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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Peasant Studies	25
2	Journal of Human Evolution	20
3	Journal of Archaeological Science	19
4	Annual Review of Anthropology	18
5	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	17
6	Social Networks	16
-	American Journal of Human Biology	16
8	Antiquity	15
9	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	13
-	Transcultural Psychiatry	13
-	American Anthropologist	13
-	Evolutionary Anthropology	13
-	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	13
-	Current Anthropology	13
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	13
-	Human Ecology	13
17	American Ethnologist	12
-	Journal of Archaeological Research	12
19	Annals of Human Biology	11
20	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	10
-	Race & Class	10
-	Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective	10
23	Cultural Anthropology	9
-	Culture Medicine and Psychiatry	9
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	9
-	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	9
-	International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	9
28	Lithic Technology	8
-	Medical Anthropology	8
-	African Archaeological Review	8
-	Journal of Social Archaeology	8
-	Signs and Society	8
-	American Antiquity	8
-	Anthropological Theory	8
-	Critique of Anthropology	8
-	Ethos	8
-	Field Methods	8
38	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	7
-	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	7
-	Archaeology in Oceania	7
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	7
-	Economic Anthropology	7
-	Ethnos	7
-	HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory	7
-	Inter-Asia Cultural Studies	7
-	Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology	7
-	Social Anthropology	7
-	Africa	7
-	Human Organization	7
50	Anthropologie	6

-	Ethnography	6
-	Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology	6
-	Latin American Antiquity	6
-	PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review	6
-	Trabajos de Prehistoria	6
-	Anthropology & Medicine	6
-	Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology	6
-	Cultural Studies	6
-	Estudios Atacamenos	6
-	History and Anthropology	6
61	Praehistorische Zeitschrift	5
-	Australian Archaeology	5
-	Journal of Material Culture	5
-	Anthropologischer Anzeiger	5
65	Oceania	4
-	Social Analysis	4
-	Anthropological Forum	4
-	Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology	4
-	Journal of Anthropological Research	4
-	Public Culture	4
-	AIBR-Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana	4
-	Australian Journal of Anthropology	4
73	Journal of Family History	3
-	Anthropology Southern Africa	3
-	Bijdragen Tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde	3
-	Chungara-Revista de Antropologia Chilena	3
-	Ethnohistory	3
78	Journal of Historical Sociology	2
-	Anthropos	2
80	Magallania	1