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 |
| 111 | Nordic Journal of Migration Research | Helsinki University Press | 1799649X | 0.434 |
| 112 | American Indian Culture and Research Journal | UCLA American Indian Studies Center | 1616463 | 0.432 |
| 113 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory | University of Chicago Press | 20491115, 25751433 | 0.431 |
| 114 | Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice | Routledge | 15377938 | 0.422 |
| 115 | Annals of Anthropological Practice | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 21539588, 2153957X | 0.417 |
| 116 | Ethos | Wiley-Blackwell | 00912131, 15481352 | 0.417 |
| 117 | Journal of Psychedelic Studies | Akademiai Kiado | 25599283 | 0.416 |
| 118 | Australian Journal of Anthropology, The | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 10358811 | 0.408 |
| 119 | Social Compass | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00377686, 14617404 | 0.407 |
| 120 | Fat Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 2160486X, 21604851 | 0.406 |
| 121 | International Journal of Multicultural Education | Eastern University, PhD in Organizational Leadership | 19345267 | 0.401 |
| 122 | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies | Routledge | 17442222, 17442230 | 0.401 |
| 123 | Boletin del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino | Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino | 07161530, 07186894 | 0.4 |
| 124 | Arctic Anthropology | University of Wisconsin Press | 19338139, 00666939 | 0.399 |
| 125 | Social Anthropology | Wiley-Blackwell | 14698676, 09640282 | 0.394 |
| 126 | Visual Anthropology Review | Wiley-Blackwell | 10587187, 15487458 | 0.385 |
| 127 | Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 21539561, 21539553 | 0.382 |
| 128 | International Indigenous Policy Journal | Scholarship at Western | 19165781 | 0.374 |
| 129 | International Journal of Society, Culture and Language | Katibeh-ILCRG | 23292210 | 0.371 |
| 130 | Journal of Social Ontology | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 21969663 | 0.37 |
| 131 | Anthropologie | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 35521 | 0.369 |
| 132 | Antipoda | Universidad de los Andes | 19005407, 20114273 | 0.369 |
| 133 | Comechingonia | Instituto de Estudios Historicos | 03267911, 22507728 | 0.369 |
| 134 | Secularism and Nonreligion | Ubiquity Press | 20536712 | 0.366 |
| 135 | Journal of Black Studies | SAGE Publications Inc. | 219347 | 0.36 |
| 136 | Asian Perspectives | University of Hawaii Press | 15358283, 00668435 | 0.359 |
| 137 | Estudios Fronterizos | Universidad Autonoma de Baja California | 23959134 | 0.347 |
| 138 | Journal of Anthropological Research | University of Chicago Press | 00917710, 21533806 | 0.347 |
| 139 | Critique of Anthropology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14603721, 0308275X | 0.344 |
| 140 | Ethnobiology and Conservation | Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco | 22384782 | 0.336 |
| 141 | Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science | Springer New York | 19324502, 19363567 | 0.336 |
| 142 | Anthropological Science | Anthropological Society of Nippon | 09187960, 13488570 | 0.333 |
| 143 | Settler Colonial Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 18380743, 2201473X | 0.328 |
| 144 | Ethnobotany Research and Applications | University of Hawaii Press | 15473465 | 0.327 |
| 145 | Journal of Tourism Analysis | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 22540644 | 0.327 |
| 146 | International Journal of Latin American Religions | Springer Nature | 25099965 | 0.324 |
| 147 | Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies | Society for South-East Asian Studies | 19992521, 1999253X | 0.323 |
| 148 | Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus | 15574660 | 0.322 | |
| 149 | Ethnomusicology Forum | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17411920, 17411912 | 0.322 |
| 150 | Vestnik Archeologii, Antropologii i Etnografii | Tyumen Scientific Centre of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | 18117465, 20710437 | 0.321 |
| 151 | Contemporary Jewry | Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry | 1471694 | 0.319 |
| 152 | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge University Press | 9407391 | 0.319 |
| 153 | Chungara | Universidad de Tarapaca | 7161182 | 0.317 |
| 154 | Sojourn | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute | 17932858, 02179520 | 0.317 |
| 155 | Revista Espanola de Antropologia Americana | Universidad Complutense Madrid | 05566533, 19882718 | 0.315 |
| 156 | Revista del Museo de Antropologia | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades | 18524826, 1852060X | 0.314 |
| 157 | Human Organization | Society for Applied Anthropology | 19383525, 19383517 | 0.313 |
| 158 | IZA Journal of Development and Migration | SpringerOpen | 25201786 | 0.313 |
| 159 | Ethnoarchaeology | Maney Publishing | 19442890, 19442904 | 0.311 |
| 160 | Biodemography and Social Biology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19485573, 19485565 | 0.309 |
| 161 | Ethnomusicology | University of Illinois Press | 141836 | 0.309 |
| 162 | Rock Art Research | Australian Rock Art Research Association | 8130426 | 0.307 |
| 163 | Estudios Atacamenos | Universidad Catolica del Norte | 07181043, 07160925 | 0.302 |
| 164 | Conflict and Society | Berghahn Journals | 21644543, 21644551 | 0.301 |
| 165 | Geographica Helvetica | Fotorotar AG | 00167312, 21948798 | 0.301 |
| 166 | Indonesia and the Malay World | Routledge | 13639811, 14698382 | 0.301 |
| 167 | Public Anthropologist | Brill Academic Publishers | 25891715, 25891707 | 0.301 |
| 168 | International Journal of Taiwan Studies | Brill Academic Publishers | 24688800, 24688797 | 0.299 |
| 169 | Anthropology Today | Wiley-Blackwell | 0268540X | 0.298 |
| 170 | Vestnik Novosibirskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriya: Istoriya, Filologiya | Novosibirsk State University | 18187919 | 0.289 |
| 171 | Acta Borealia | Routledge | 1503111X, 08003831 | 0.287 |
| 172 | African Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00020184, 14692872 | 0.286 |
| 173 | Australian Journal of Indigenous Education | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland | 13260111, 20497784 | 0.286 |
| 174 | Stratum Plus | High Anthropological School University | 18573533, 16089057 | 0.285 |
| 175 | Journal of Applied Youth Studies | Springer Nature | 22049207, 22049193 | 0.284 |
| 176 | Folklore | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 0015587X, 14698315 | 0.282 |
| 177 | Journal of Autoethnography | University of California Press | 26375192 | 0.282 |
| 178 | Revista Colombiana de Antropologia | Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia | 4866525 | 0.282 |
| 179 | Contemporary Voice of Dalit | SAGE Publications Inc. | 2455328X, 24560502 | 0.277 |
| 180 | Open Library of Humanities | Open Library of Humanities | 20566700 | 0.277 |
| 181 | Boletimdo Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi:Ciencias Humanas | Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi | 19818122, 21782547 | 0.276 |
| 182 | Estudos do Quaternario | Associacao Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional (APDR) | 08740801, 21828660 | 0.275 |
| 183 | Studia Mythologica Slavica | Institute of Slovenian Ethnology | 1581128X, 14086271 | 0.275 |
| 184 | Shima | Shima Publications (Australia) | 18346049, 18346057 | 0.274 |
| 185 | Journal of Organizational Ethnography | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 20466757, 20466749 | 0.273 |
| 186 | Russian Peasant Studies | Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration | 25001809 | 0.271 |
| 187 | Anthropological Forum | Routledge | 14692902, 00664677 | 0.269 |
| 188 | Sibirica | Berghahn Journals | 13617362, 14766787 | 0.269 |
| 189 | Food and Foodways | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15423484, 07409710 | 0.268 |
| 190 | Mongolian Studies | Kalmyk Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences | 25001523, 27128059 | 0.268 |
| 191 | Bulletin of Ugric Studies | Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development | 25879766, 22204156 | 0.267 |
| 192 | Modern Italy | Cambridge University Press | 13532944, 14699877 | 0.267 |
| 193 | African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review | Indiana University Press | 21567263, 2156695X | 0.266 |
| 194 | Multicultural Education Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23770031, 2005615X | 0.266 |
| 195 | Caucasus Survey | Brill Academic Publishers | 23761199, 23761202 | 0.265 |
| 196 | History and Anthropology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14772612, 02757206 | 0.265 |
| 197 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 83968 | 0.263 |
| 198 | Asian anthropology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21684227, 1683478X | 0.262 |
| 199 | Siberian Historical Research | Tomsk State University | 23124628, 2312461X | 0.262 |
| 200 | African Identities | Routledge | 14725843, 14725851 | 0.261 |