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 | 6.024 |
| 2 | Journal of Marriage and Family | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17413737, 00222445 | 2.386 |
| 3 | Journal of Peasant Studies | Routledge | 03066150, 17439361 | 2.277 |
| 4 | Social Forces | Oxford University Press | 15347605, 00377732 | 2.132 |
| 5 | Human Communication Research | Wiley-Blackwell | 03603989, 14682958 | 1.88 |
| 6 | Journal of Black Psychology, The | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15524558, 00957984 | 1.644 |
| 7 | Evolutionary Anthropology | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 15206505, 10601538 | 1.474 |
| 8 | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | SAGE Publications Inc. | 23326506, 23326492 | 1.474 |
| 9 | Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities | Springer Nature | 21968837 | 1.453 |
| 10 | Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics | Cambridge University Press | 20566085 | 1.452 |
| 11 | Journal of Human Evolution | Academic Press Inc. | 00472484, 10958606 | 1.338 |
| 12 | Annual Review of Anthropology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454290, 00846570 | 1.284 |
| 13 | Consumption Markets and Culture | Routledge | 10253866, 1477223X | 1.281 |
| 14 | Race and Social Problems | Springer Verlag | 18671748, 18671756 | 1.218 |
| 15 | Anthropological Theory | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14634996 | 1.208 |
| 16 | Social Networks | Elsevier BV | 3788733 | 1.203 |
| 17 | Science Technology and Human Values | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01622439, 15528251 | 1.17 |
| 18 | Chinese Sociological Review | M.E. Sharpe Inc. | 21620555, 21620563 | 1.117 |
| 19 | Journal of Agrarian Change | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14710366, 14710358 | 1.077 |
| 20 | Ethnic and Racial Studies | Routledge | 01419870, 14664356 | 1.076 |
| 21 | Games and Culture | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15554139, 15554120 | 1.065 |
| 22 | Qualitative Inquiry | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15527565, 10778004 | 1.059 |
| 23 | Discourse Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14614456, 14617080 | 1.04 |
| 24 | American Ethnologist | Wiley-Blackwell | 00940496, 15481425 | 1.004 |
| 25 | Cultural Anthropology | American Anthropological Association | 08867356, 15481360 | 0.954 |
| 26 | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00220221, 15525422 | 0.95 |
| 27 | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge University Press | 2513843X | 0.939 |
| 28 | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 01459740, 15455882 | 0.939 |
| 29 | Journal of Language and Social Psychology | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15526526, 0261927X | 0.937 |
| 30 | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | Springer Verlag | 18669565, 18669557 | 0.936 |
| 31 | World Englishes | Wiley-Blackwell | 8832919 | 0.904 |
| 32 | Forensic Sciences Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 24711411, 20961790 | 0.883 |
| 33 | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | Springer New York | 1573076X, 0165005X | 0.875 |
| 34 | Social Text | Duke University Press | 01642472, 15271951 | 0.865 |
| 35 | Cultural Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14664348, 09502386 | 0.859 |
| 36 | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | Wiley-Blackwell | 15481387, 07455194 | 0.846 |
| 37 | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Wiley-Blackwell | 13590987 | 0.845 |
| 38 | Current Anthropology | University of Chicago | 00113204, 15375382 | 0.8 |
| 39 | American Anthropologist | Wiley-Blackwell | 00027294, 15481433 | 0.798 |
| 40 | Journal of Human Development and Capabilities | Routledge | 19452837, 19452829 | 0.797 |
| 41 | Race and Class | SAGE Publications Ltd | 3063968 | 0.786 |
| 42 | Human Nature | Springer New York | 19364776, 10456767 | 0.765 |
| 43 | Identities | Routledge | 15473384, 1070289X | 0.751 |
| 44 | Transforming Anthropology | Wiley-Blackwell | 10510559 | 0.749 |
| 45 | Mind, Culture, and Activity | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10749039, 15327884 | 0.746 |
| 46 | American Journal of Human Biology | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 10420533, 15206300 | 0.744 |
| 47 | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography | SAGE Publications Inc. | 08912416, 15525414 | 0.728 |
| 48 | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press | 22011919 | 0.709 |
| 49 | Ethnos | Routledge | 00141844, 1469588X | 0.704 |
| 50 | Anthropology and Education Quarterly | Wiley-Blackwell | 01617761, 15481492 | 0.701 |
| 51 | Identity | Psychology Press Ltd | 15283488, 1532706X | 0.7 |
| 52 | Journal of Cultural Heritage | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 12962074 | 0.699 |
| 53 | Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage | Elsevier BV | 22120548 | 0.692 |
| 54 | Environment and Society: Advances in Research | Berghahn Books Inc. | 21506779, 21506787 | 0.686 |
| 55 | Lithic Technology | Maney Publishing | 01977261, 20516185 | 0.683 |
| 56 | Journal of Eastern African Studies | Routledge | 17531055, 17531063 | 0.666 |
| 57 | Sexualities | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14617382, 13634607 | 0.658 |
| 58 | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 10968644, 00029483 | 0.651 |
| 59 | Open Quaternary | Ubiquity Press | 2055298X | 0.649 |
| 60 | AlterNative | SAGE Publications Inc. | 11741740, 11771801 | 0.641 |
| 61 | Cross-Cultural Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15523578, 10693971 | 0.64 |
| 62 | Human Ecology | Springer Science + Business Media | 15729915, 03007839 | 0.63 |
| 63 | Frontiers in Sports and Active Living | Frontiers Media S.A. | 26249367 | 0.624 |
| 64 | Journal of Physiological Anthropology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 18806791, 18806805 | 0.596 |
| 65 | Race and Justice | SAGE Publications Inc. | 21533687 | 0.577 |
| 66 | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment | Routledge | 15403556, 10911359 | 0.567 |
| 67 | African Studies Review | Cambridge University Press | 20206 | 0.566 |
| 68 | Intersecciones en Antropologia | Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires | 16662105, 1850373X | 0.566 |
| 69 | Field Methods | SAGE Publications Inc. | 1525822X | 0.559 |
| 70 | Focaal | Katholieke Universiteit, Instituut voor Culturele en Sociale Antropologie, University Of Nijmegen | 09201297, 15585263 | 0.557 |
| 71 | Journal of Ethnobiology | Society of Ethnobiology | 2780771 | 0.557 |
| 72 | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15526364, 07399863 | 0.553 |
| 73 | Personal Relationships | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13504126, 14756811 | 0.55 |
| 74 | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge University Press | 00238791, 15424278 | 0.548 |
| 75 | Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Wiley-Blackwell | 19354932, 19354940 | 0.547 |
| 76 | Journal of Ethnic Foods | Elsevier BV | 23526181 | 0.544 |
| 77 | American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research | University Press of Colorado | 15337731, 08935394 | 0.543 |
| 78 | Journal of Language and Sexuality | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22113770, 22113789 | 0.533 |
| 79 | Dialectical Anthropology | Springer Netherlands | 03044092, 15730786 | 0.531 |
| 80 | Africa | Cambridge University Press | 00019720, 17500184 | 0.527 |
| 81 | Critical Philosophy of Race | Penn State University Press | 21658692, 21658684 | 0.527 |
| 82 | Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge University Press | 251003 | 0.524 |
| 83 | Nordic Journal of Music Therapy | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19448260, 08098131 | 0.521 |
| 84 | Journal of Human Trafficking | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23322705, 23322713 | 0.52 |
| 85 | Documenta Praehistorica | University of Ljubljana Press | 18542492, 1408967X | 0.515 |
| 86 | Journal of International Migration and Integration | Springer Netherlands | 14883473 | 0.515 |
| 87 | Journal of Material Culture | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13591835, 14603586 | 0.51 |
| 88 | Anthropology of Work Review | Wiley-Blackwell | 0883024X | 0.508 |
| 89 | PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review | Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA | 10816976, 15552934 | 0.506 |
| 90 | Journal of Anthropological Sciences | Istituto Italiano di Antropologia | 18274765, 20370644 | 0.498 |
| 91 | Social Justice Research | Springer New York | 15736725, 08857466 | 0.492 |
| 92 | Anthrozoos | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 8927936 | 0.486 |
| 93 | Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry | University of the Aegean | 11089628 | 0.478 |
| 94 | Du Bois Review | Cambridge University Press | 1742058X | 0.467 |
| 95 | Archaeology in Oceania | Wiley-Blackwell | 07284896, 18344453 | 0.465 |
| 96 | MAI Journal | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga | 22306862 | 0.465 |
| 97 | Journal of Negro Education, The | Howard University | 21676437, 00222984 | 0.458 |
| 98 | Plains Anthropologist | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 320447 | 0.456 |
| 99 | Oceania | Wiley-Blackwell | 298077 | 0.455 |
| 100 | Anthropology in Action | Berghahn Journals | 0967201X, 17522285 | 0.454 |
| 101 | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10991212, 1047482X | 0.449 |
| 102 | Anthropology and Medicine | Routledge | 14692910, 13648470 | 0.448 |
| 103 | Journal of Comparative Family Studies | University of Toronto Press | 472328 | 0.448 |
| 104 | Ethnography | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17412714, 14661381 | 0.444 |
| 105 | International Journal of Play | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21594953 | 0.443 |
| 106 | TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia | Cambridge University Press | 2051364X, 20513658 | 0.44 |
| 107 | International Journal of Tourism Anthropology | Inderscience Publishers | 17590450, 17590442 | 0.439 |
| 108 | Queensland Archaeological Research | James Cook University | 1839339X, 08143021 | 0.438 |
| 109 | Anthropological Quarterly | Institute for Ethnographic Research | 00035491, 15341518 | 0.436 |
| 110 | Culture and Psychology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14617056, 1354067X | 0.434 |