This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Anthropology journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Consumer Research | Oxford University Press | 00935301, 15375277 | 7.117 |
| 2 | Journal of Peasant Studies | Routledge | 03066150, 17439361 | 2.833 |
| 3 | Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics | Cambridge University Press | 20566085 | 2.36 |
| 4 | Journal of Marriage and Family | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17413737, 00222445 | 2.224 |
| 5 | Social Forces | Oxford University Press | 15347605, 00377732 | 2.135 |
| 6 | Human Communication Research | Wiley-Blackwell | 03603989, 14682958 | 1.733 |
| 7 | Journal of Human Evolution | Academic Press Inc. | 00472484, 10958606 | 1.642 |
| 8 | Social Networks | Elsevier BV | 3788733 | 1.565 |
| 9 | Journal of Agrarian Change | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14710366, 14710358 | 1.507 |
| 10 | Evolutionary Anthropology | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 15206505, 10601538 | 1.459 |
| 11 | Environment and Society: Advances in Research | Berghahn Books Inc. | 21506779, 21506787 | 1.442 |
| 12 | Discourse Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14614456, 14617080 | 1.39 |
| 13 | Consumption Markets and Culture | Routledge | 10253866, 1477223X | 1.383 |
| 14 | Cultural Anthropology | American Anthropological Association | 08867356, 15481360 | 1.266 |
| 15 | Science Technology and Human Values | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01622439, 15528251 | 1.2 |
| 16 | Annual Review of Anthropology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454290, 00846570 | 1.195 |
| 17 | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00220221, 15525422 | 1.134 |
| 18 | Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities | Springer Nature | 21968837 | 1.118 |
| 19 | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 10968644, 00029483 | 1.084 |
| 20 | Journal of Black Psychology, The | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15524558, 00957984 | 1.082 |
| 21 | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge University Press | 2513843X | 1.039 |
| 22 | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 01459740, 15455882 | 0.977 |
| 23 | Social Text | Duke University Press | 01642472, 15271951 | 0.972 |
| 24 | Ethnic and Racial Studies | Routledge | 01419870, 14664356 | 0.968 |
| 25 | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | Wiley-Blackwell | 15481387, 07455194 | 0.96 |
| 26 | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | Springer Verlag | 18669565, 18669557 | 0.947 |
| 27 | Qualitative Inquiry | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15527565, 10778004 | 0.945 |
| 28 | Chinese Sociological Review | M.E. Sharpe Inc. | 21620555, 21620563 | 0.909 |
| 29 | Race and Social Problems | Springer Verlag | 18671748, 18671756 | 0.902 |
| 30 | Forensic Sciences Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 24711411, 20961790 | 0.894 |
| 31 | Games and Culture | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15554139, 15554120 | 0.889 |
| 32 | Race and Justice | SAGE Publications Inc. | 21533687 | 0.867 |
| 33 | Current Anthropology | University of Chicago | 00113204, 15375382 | 0.83 |
| 34 | Journal of Eastern African Studies | Routledge | 17531055, 17531063 | 0.816 |
| 35 | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Wiley-Blackwell | 13590987 | 0.814 |
| 36 | Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage | Elsevier BV | 22120548 | 0.753 |
| 37 | Du Bois Review | Cambridge University Press | 1742058X | 0.751 |
| 38 | Journal of Latina/o Psychology | American Psychological Association | 21681678, 21630070 | 0.749 |
| 39 | Human Nature | Springer New York | 19364776, 10456767 | 0.741 |
| 40 | Anthropological Theory | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14634996 | 0.735 |
| 41 | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography | SAGE Publications Inc. | 08912416, 15525414 | 0.727 |
| 42 | Journal of Cultural Heritage | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 12962074 | 0.722 |
| 43 | Cross-Cultural Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15523578, 10693971 | 0.714 |
| 44 | American Ethnologist | Wiley-Blackwell | 00940496, 15481425 | 0.71 |
| 45 | Anthropology Today | Wiley-Blackwell | 0268540X | 0.706 |
| 46 | Mind, Culture, and Activity | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10749039, 15327884 | 0.698 |
| 47 | Open Quaternary | Ubiquity Press | 2055298X | 0.692 |
| 48 | Latin American Research Review | Latin American Studies Association | 00238791, 15424278 | 0.684 |
| 49 | Human Ecology | Springer Science + Business Media | 15729915, 03007839 | 0.683 |
| 50 | Journal of Anthropological Sciences | Istituto Italiano di Antropologia | 18274765, 20370644 | 0.666 |
| 51 | American Anthropologist | Wiley-Blackwell | 00027294, 15481433 | 0.665 |
| 52 | American Journal of Human Biology | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 10420533, 15206300 | 0.658 |
| 53 | Sexualities | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14617382, 13634607 | 0.653 |
| 54 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory | University of Chicago Press | 20491115, 25751433 | 0.648 |
| 55 | Journal of Physiological Anthropology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 18806791, 18806805 | 0.647 |
| 56 | Anthropology and Education Quarterly | Wiley-Blackwell | 01617761, 15481492 | 0.646 |
| 57 | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10991212, 1047482X | 0.646 |
| 58 | World Englishes | Wiley-Blackwell | 8832919 | 0.638 |
| 59 | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | Springer New York | 1573076X, 0165005X | 0.631 |
| 60 | Lithic Technology | Maney Publishing | 01977261, 20516185 | 0.617 |
| 61 | Race and Class | SAGE Publications Ltd | 3063968 | 0.611 |
| 62 | MAI Journal | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga | 22306862 | 0.599 |
| 63 | Journal of Material Culture | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13591835, 14603586 | 0.595 |
| 64 | Journal of Language and Social Psychology | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15526526, 0261927X | 0.591 |
| 65 | Identities | Routledge | 15473384, 1070289X | 0.587 |
| 66 | Oceania | Wiley-Blackwell | 298077 | 0.57 |
| 67 | Journal of Human Development and Capabilities | Routledge | 19452837, 19452829 | 0.566 |
| 68 | Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Wiley-Blackwell | 19354932, 19354940 | 0.555 |
| 69 | Cultural Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14664348, 09502386 | 0.55 |
| 70 | Personal Relationships | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13504126, 14756811 | 0.542 |
| 71 | Ethnoarchaeology | Maney Publishing | 19442890, 19442904 | 0.538 |
| 72 | Field Methods | SAGE Publications Inc. | 1525822X | 0.538 |
| 73 | Anthrozoos | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 8927936 | 0.532 |
| 74 | Critique of Anthropology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14603721, 0308275X | 0.522 |
| 75 | Journal of Negro Education, The | Howard University | 21676437, 00222984 | 0.516 |
| 76 | Anthropologie | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 35521 | 0.507 |
| 77 | Identity | Psychology Press Ltd | 15283488, 1532706X | 0.507 |
| 78 | Social Analysis | Berghahn Journals | 0155977X | 0.506 |
| 79 | Fat Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 2160486X, 21604851 | 0.505 |
| 80 | Africa | Cambridge University Press | 00019720, 17500184 | 0.501 |
| 81 | AlterNative | SAGE Publications Inc. | 11741740, 11771801 | 0.494 |
| 82 | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press | 22011919 | 0.483 |
| 83 | Rock Art Research | Australian Rock Art Research Association | 8130426 | 0.481 |
| 84 | Anthropological Science | Anthropological Society of Nippon | 09187960, 13488570 | 0.468 |
| 85 | Ethnos | Routledge | 00141844, 1469588X | 0.467 |
| 86 | Social Anthropology | Wiley-Blackwell | 14698676, 09640282 | 0.463 |
| 87 | IZA Journal of Development and Migration | SpringerOpen | 25201786 | 0.461 |
| 88 | Journal of International Migration and Integration | Springer Netherlands | 14883473 | 0.461 |
| 89 | Journal of Ethnic Foods | Elsevier BV | 23526181 | 0.46 |
| 90 | Intersecciones en Antropologia | Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires | 16662105, 1850373X | 0.453 |
| 91 | Plains Anthropologist | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 320447 | 0.448 |
| 92 | Dialectical Anthropology | Springer Netherlands | 03044092, 15730786 | 0.447 |
| 93 | PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review | Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA | 10816976, 15552934 | 0.445 |
| 94 | Transforming Anthropology | Wiley-Blackwell | 10510559 | 0.445 |
| 95 | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies | Routledge | 17442222, 17442230 | 0.442 |
| 96 | Social Compass | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00377686, 14617404 | 0.44 |
| 97 | Journal of Human Trafficking | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23322705, 23322713 | 0.439 |
| 98 | Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice | Routledge | 15377938 | 0.43 |
| 99 | Ethnography | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17412714, 14661381 | 0.424 |
| 100 | Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge University Press | 251003 | 0.423 |
| 101 | Social Justice Research | Springer New York | 15736725, 08857466 | 0.422 |
| 102 | Australian Journal of Indigenous Education | Cambridge University Press | 13260111, 20497784 | 0.421 |
| 103 | African Studies Review | Cambridge University Press | 20206 | 0.412 |
| 104 | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge University Press | 9407391 | 0.41 |
| 105 | Journal of Organizational Ethnography | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 20466757, 20466749 | 0.41 |
| 106 | Estudios Fronterizos | Universidad Autonoma de Baja California | 23959134 | 0.405 |
| 107 | International Journal of Latin American Religions | Springer Nature | 25099965 | 0.405 |
| 108 | Journal of Ethnobiology | Society of Ethnobiology | 2780771 | 0.404 |
| 109 | Biodemography and Social Biology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19485573, 19485565 | 0.402 |
| 110 | Journal of Black Studies | SAGE Publications Inc. | 219347 | 0.402 |