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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Peasant Studies	25
2	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	24
3	Journal of Human Evolution	21
4	Journal of Archaeological Science	20
5	Social Networks	18
6	Transcultural Psychiatry	16
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	16
8	American Journal of Human Biology	15
-	Annual Review of Anthropology	15
10	American Anthropologist	14
-	Antiquity	14
-	Evolutionary Anthropology	14
-	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	14
-	Current Anthropology	14
15	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	13
16	Cultural Anthropology	12
-	Human Ecology	12
18	American Ethnologist	11
19	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	10
-	Annals of Human Biology	10
-	Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective	10
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	10
-	Medical Anthropology	10
-	American Antiquity	10
-	International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	10
26	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	9
-	Social Anthropology	9
-	Culture Medicine and Psychiatry	9
-	Journal of Archaeological Research	9
-	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	9
-	Race & Class	9
32	Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology	8
-	Lithic Technology	8
-	Critique of Anthropology	8
-	Field Methods	8
36	Public Culture	7
-	American Journal of Physical Anthropology	7
-	African Archaeological Review	7
-	Anthropologie	7
-	Australian Archaeology	7
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	7
-	Economic Anthropology	7
-	Journal of Social Archaeology	7
-	Anthropological Theory	7
-	Cultural Studies	7
46	Latin American Antiquity	6
-	Signs and Society	6
-	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	6
-	Archaeology in Oceania	6
-	Ethnography	6

-	Ethnos	6
-	HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory	6
-	Africa	6
-	Anthropology & Medicine	6
-	Ethos	6
56	PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review	5
-	Trabajos de Prehistoria	5
-	Anthropological Forum	5
-	Inter-Asia Cultural Studies	5
-	Journal of Historical Sociology	5
-	Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology	5
-	Journal of Material Culture	5
-	Praehistorische Zeitschrift	5
-	Social Analysis	5
-	Anthropologischer Anzeiger	5
-	Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology	5
-	Estudios Atacamenos	5
-	Human Organization	5
-	Journal of Anthropological Research	5
70	Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology	4
-	Ethnohistory	4
-	History and Anthropology	4
73	Journal of Family History	3
-	Anthropology Southern Africa	3
-	Bijdragen Tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde	3
-	Oceania	3
-	Australian Journal of Anthropology	3
-	Chungara-Revista de Antropologia Chilena	3
79	Journal of the Polynesian Society	2
-	Magallania	2
81	AIBR-Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana	1
-	Anthropos	1