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Best Anthropology journals

535 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Anthropology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Journal of Consumer Research 13.9 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
2 Journal of Peasant Studies 11.7 99th Q1 SSCI – No
3 Science Technology and Human Values 8.1 99th Q1 SSCI A No
4 Human Communication Research 8 99th Q1 SSCI – No
5 Games and Culture 7.3 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
6 Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 7.1 98th Q1 SSCI – No
7 Evolutionary Anthropology 6.7 98th Q1 SSCI – No
8 Journal of Agrarian Change 6.7 98th Q1 SSCI – No
9 Race and Justice 6.7 98th Q1 SSCI – No
10 Journal of Ethnic Foods 6.6 98th Q1 – – Yes
11 Annual Review of Anthropology 6.4 98th Q1 SSCI – No
12 Journal of Marriage and Family 6.4 97th Q1 SSCI – No
13 Social Networks 6.3 97th Q1 SSCI – No
14 Social Forces 6.2 97th Q1 SSCI A No
15 Journal of Human Evolution 6.1 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
16 Journal of Physiological Anthropology 6.1 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
17 Chinese Sociological Review 5.8 96th Q1 SSCI – No
18 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5.7 96th Q1 SSCI – No
19 Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 5.6 96th Q1 SSCI A No
20 Environment and Society: Advances in Research 5.5 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
21 Ethnic and Racial Studies 5.5 96th Q1 SSCI – No
22 Journal of Black Psychology 4.9 95th Q1 SSCI – No
23 Consumption Markets and Culture 4.8 95th Q1 SSCI B No
24 Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 4.8 95th Q1 ESCI – No
25 Sexualities 4.8 95th Q1 SSCI – No
26 Journal of Language and Social Psychology 4.7 95th Q1 SSCI – No
27 Identities 4.6 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
28 Ethnos 4.6 94th Q1 SSCI – No
29 Journal of Language and Sexuality 4.6 94th Q1 ESCI – No
30 Journal of Human Trafficking 4.5 94th Q1 – – No
31 Cross-Cultural Research 4.4 94th Q1 SSCI – No
32 Identity 4.4 94th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Anthrozoos 4.3 93th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
34 Journal of International Migration and Integration 4.2 93th Q1 ESCI C No
35 American Ethnologist 4.2 93th Q1 SSCI – No
36 El-Usrah 4.2 93th Q1 – – No
37 Evolutionary Human Sciences 4.1 93th Q1 ESCI – Yes
38 Forensic Sciences Research 4.1 93th Q1 ESCI – Yes
39 Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 4 92th Q1 SSCI – No
40 Race and Social Problems 4 92th Q1 SSCI – No
41 American Anthropologist 3.9 92th Q1 SSCI – No
42 Feminist Anthropology 3.9 92th Q1 ESCI – No
43 Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 3.9 92th Q1 ESCI – Yes
44 American Journal of Biological Anthropology 3.8 91th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
45 International Journal of Society, Culture and Language 3.8 91th Q1 – – No
46 Mind, Culture, and Activity 3.8 91th Q1 SSCI – No
47 Race and Class 3.8 91th Q1 SSCI – No
48 World Englishes 3.8 91th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
49 Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3.8 90th Q1 – – No
50 Social Justice Research 3.7 90th Q1 SSCI B No
51 Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 3.7 90th Q1 ESCI – No
52 Qualitative Inquiry 3.7 90th Q1 SSCI – No
53 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3.6 90th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
54 Journal of Anthropological Sciences 3.6 90th Q1 SSCI – No
55 Anthropological Theory 3.6 89th Q1 SSCI – No
56 Culture and Evolution 3.6 89th Q1 – – No
57 Ethnography 3.5 89th Q1 SSCI – No
58 Journal of Psychedelic Studies 3.5 89th Q1 ESCI – Yes
59 Social Anthropology 3.5 89th Q1 SSCI – Yes
60 American Journal of Human Biology 3.5 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
61 Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 3.4 88th Q1 – – Yes
62 Anthropology Today 3.4 88th Q1 ESCI – No
63 Medical Anthropology Quarterly 3.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
64 Personal Relationships 3.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
65 Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 3.4 87th Q1 SSCI – No
66 Human Nature 3.4 87th Q1 SSCI – No
67 Queensland Archaeological Research 3.4 87th Q1 – – No
68 Cultural Studies 3.3 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
69 Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 3.3 87th Q1 SSCI – No
70 Anthropology and Medicine 3.2 87th Q1 SSCI – No
71 Childhood 3.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
72 Human Ecology 3.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
73 Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 3.1 86th Q1 SSCI – No
74 Lithic Technology 3.1 86th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
75 Discourse Studies 3 86th Q1 SSCI A No
76 Critique of Anthropology 3 85th Q1 SSCI – No
77 Du Bois Review 3 85th Q1 SSCI – No
78 Ethnobiology and Conservation 3 85th Q1 ESCI – No
79 Field Methods 3 85th Q1 SSCI – No
80 Focaal 3 85th Q1 SSCI – Yes
81 Asian Journal of Ethnobiology 2.9 84th Q1 – – No
82 Current Anthropology 2.9 84th Q1 SSCI – No
83 Environmental Humanities 2.9 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
84 Ethos 2.9 84th Q1 SSCI – No
85 Economic Anthropology 2.8 84th Q1 SSCI – No
86 International Journal of Tourism Anthropology 2.8 84th Q1 – – No
87 Research in Economic Anthropology 2.8 83th Q1 – – No
88 Canadian Journal of African Studies 2.7 83th Q1 ESCI – No
89 Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics 2.7 83th Q1 ESCI – No
90 Journal of Tourism Theory and Research 2.7 83th Q1 – – No
91 Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 2.7 83th Q1 SSCI – No
92 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2.7 82th Q1 SSCI – No
93 Anthropology and Education Quarterly 2.6 82th Q1 SSCI – No
94 Critical Philosophy of Race 2.6 82th Q1 ESCI – No
95 Journal of Ethnobiology 2.6 82th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
96 Journal of Race Ethnicity and the City 2.6 82th Q1 – – No
97 African Identities 2.5 81th Q1 – – No
98 Archaeology in Oceania 2.5 81th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
99 Cultural Anthropology 2.5 81th Q1 SSCI – Yes
100 Journal of the International Phonetic Association 2.5 81th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No

Rank and percentile are within the Anthropology Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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