Anthropology and Medicine

Aims & Scope

Anthropology & Medicine is dedicated to publishing papers that examine medicine, health and illness in an anthropological context.

This broad field reflects the journal’s commitment to interdisciplinary research on the interrelationship between culture and health.

The journal publishes original papers, reviews, commentaries and debates within the broad framework of medical anthropology, for an international readership.

In addition to usual recent book reviews, each issue of Anthropology & Medicine also includes The Canon, which features a reappraisal of a past text that may be considered unfashionably canonical, classical or at least of continuing interest in medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry.

The journal also features regular guest edited thematic issues on contemporary topics.

Please see the proposal guidelines here.

Commentaries could be a statement of position by the author, response to a recent publication, or a standalone piece and does not need to be based on original fieldwork or research.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	1.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.617

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9393

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	197

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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
• Medline
• Embase

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Medicine and 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.

• Reproductive governance in Latin America

  Citation: 284

  Authors: Lynn M., Elizabeth F.S.

• Cultural epidemiology: An introduction and overview

  Citation: 158

  Authors: Mitchell G.

• Pharmaceutical Citizenship: Antidepressant Marketing and the Promise of Demarginalization in India

  Citation: 156

  Authors: Stefan

• Globalization and gametes: reproductive ‘tourism,’ Islamic bioethics, and Middle Eastern modernity

  Citation: 123

  Authors: Marcia C.

• Negotiated interactive observation: Doing fieldwork in hospital settings

  Citation: 105

  Authors: Gitte

• When the field is a ward or a clinic: Hospital ethnography

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Debbi, Cynthia, Sjaak

• Psychiatric stigma across cultures: Local validation in Bangalore and London

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Mitchell G., Sushrut, R., Penelope, Roland

• ‘Constituent Covid-19 apocalypses: contagious conspiracism, 5G, and viral vaccinations’

  Citation: 77

  Authors: Tristan, Tom

• Failures of imagination: The refugee's narrative in psychiatry

  Citation: 71

  Authors: LAURENCE J.

• Sociosomatic theory in Vietnamese immigrants' narratives of distress

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Danielle, Laurence J.

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