Current Anthropology

Aims & Scope

Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species.

Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	2.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6952

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	398

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.785

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	138

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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 Arts and Humanities 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.

• The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution

  Citation: 1675

  Authors: Leslie C., Peter

• An Anthropology of Structural Violence

  Citation: 1332

  Authors: Paul

• The Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples [and Comments and Reply]

  Citation: 1084

  Authors: James W., George R., Henry C., Kenneth M., Mark N., Leslie E., Dale L., Rimantas, Gintautas, M. Anne, John R., Janet W., Eric Abella, Douglas H., Richard G.

• Fission‐Fusion Dynamics

  Citation: 787

  Authors: Filippo, Colleen M., Christophe, Simon K., Josep, Colin A., Richard, Anthony Di, Robin I. M., S. Peter, Kay, Amanda H., Robert, Phyllis, Julia, Joseph H., Gabriel, Karen B., Carel P. van

• The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology

  Citation: 730

  Authors: Nancy

• Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply]

  Citation: 703

  Authors: Aihwa, Virginia R., Jonathan, Nina Glick, Verena, Hu

• The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization

  Citation: 696

  Authors: Michel‐Rolph

• “Animism” Revisited

  Citation: 665

  Authors: Nurit

• After Nature

  Citation: 649

  Authors: Arturo

• Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital

  Citation: 609

  Authors: Rebecca, Eric Alden

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