American Ethnologist

Aims & Scope

American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term.

The journal’s articles connect ethnographic specificity with original theoretical contributions, conveying the relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2
2024	1.90

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.197

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	3567

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	305

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

  Citation: 1579

  Authors: James, Akhil

• blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state

  Citation: 1496

  Authors: AKHIL

• the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women

  Citation: 1429

  Authors: LILA

• Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony

  Citation: 1061

  Authors: Jean, John L.

• Life of the mind: The interface of psychopharmaceuticals, domestic economies, and social abandonment

  Citation: 880

  Authors: João

• #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States

  Citation: 688

  Authors: YARIMAR, JONATHAN

• when talk isn't cheap: language and political economy

  Citation: 647

  Authors: JUDITH T.

• Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation

  Citation: 639

  Authors: Jeffrey S.

• gastro‐politics in Hindu South Asia

  Citation: 558

  Authors: ARJUN

• Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time

  Citation: 551

  Authors: JANE I.

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