Top 20 journals in anthropology

May 19, 2011

The table above lists the top 20 journals in anthropology by citation impact for the period 1 January 2001 to 28 February 2011. These journals range in focus from general to subfield-specific, including physical, social and cultural anthropology, as well as archaeology. All rank in the top 50 per cent of social sciences journals indexed by the Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators database according to citations received during the period. The average for social science journals over this time was 4.37.

Thomson Reuters identified 223 highly cited papers in anthropology. Highly cited papers rank in the top 1 per cent by citations received according to their year of publication and field.

The top five publishing these influential papers were: Journal of Human Evolution (50 papers); Current Anthropology (28); Journal of Archaeological Science (22); Evolutionary Anthropology (12); and the Annual Review of Anthropology (11).

The multidisciplinary journals Nature (20), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (19) and Science (13) also published highly cited papers in anthropology.

The origins of the highly cited papers were, in national terms, the US (121), the UK (66), Germany (30), Australia (28) and France (25). The top institutions in the field were the University of Oxford (14), University College London (13), the University of Witwatersrand (13), George Washington University (12) and Harvard University (12).

For more information on Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators database, see http://science.thomsonreuters.com/products/esi

Top 20 Journals in anthropology
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2001-February 2011
  Journal Papers Citations Impact
1 Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 63 1,210 19.21
2 Annual Review of Anthropology 212 3,122 14.73
3 Journal of Human Evolution 685 9,314 13.60
4 Evolutionary Anthropology 224 2,682 11.97
5 Social Networks 211 1,936 9.18
6 Current Anthropology 480 4,367 9.10
7 American Jnl of Physical Anthropology 1,401 12,561 8.97
8 Human Nature 199 1,733 8.71
9 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 207 1,546 7.47
10 Cultural Anthropology 209 1,544 7.39
11 Human Ecology 3 2,176 6.65
12 Medical Anthropology Quarterly 226 1,280 5.66
%3D13 American Anthropologist 588 3,195 5.43
%3D13 Public Culture 287 1,559 5.43
15 Journal of Archaeological Science 1,377 6,874 4.99
16 American Ethnologist 395 1,801 4.56
17 Human Organization 379 1,422 3.75
18 Journal of Material Culture 150 536 3.57
19 Field Methods 109 384 3.52
20 Homo 183 558 3.05

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#1 Submitted by Zondi on November 7, 2018 - 10:16am
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