Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA) is a peer-reviewed journal of anthropological research on Latin America and the Caribbean.

JLACA publishes original research grounded in ethnography in different article formats.

The Journal welcomes contributions that integrate interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies with ethnographic processes of knowledge production.

The JLACA maintains an inclusive geographical scope that includes diasporic populations throughout the Americas and the world.

The journal’s purview also includes global processes that effect or interconnect not only different regions or nations within the Americas but also the Americas with other world geographic regions.

JLACA’s mission, as a publication of the American Anthropological Association, is to provide a venue for anthropologists of all subfields and topical-thematic areas within sociocultural anthropology, social archaeology, sociolinguistics, ethnohistory, bio-physical anthropology—as well as for scholars of cognate disciplines—who are engaged in the critical study of social and cultural processes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

To reach a broader international readership and base of contributing authors, JLACA’s mandate includes publishing in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.6
2024	0.70

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13690

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	81

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.404

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	23

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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.

• Waiting for the Surveyor: Development Promises and the Temporality of Infrastructure

  Citation: 108

  Authors: Kregg

• Performing Participation: Mining, Power, and the Limits of Public Consultation in Bolivia

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Tom

• When Afro Becomes (like) Indigenous: Garifuna and Afro‐Indigenous Politics in Honduras

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Mark

• Managing Diversity in Postneoliberal Ecuador

  Citation: 78

  Authors: Carmen Martínez

• Can Ethnicity Replace Race? Afro‐Colombians, Indigeneity and the Colombian Multicultural State

  Citation: 76

  Authors: Bettina

• The Taste of Conquest: Colonialism, Cosmopolitics, and the Dark Side of Peru's Gastronomic Boom

  Citation: 71

  Authors: María Elena

• Soil Science, Development, and the “Elusive Nature” of Colombia's Amazonian Plains

  Citation: 71

  Authors: Kristina Marie

• The Loss of Oil: Constituting Disaster in Amazonian Ecuador

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Michael

• Nature, Infrastructure, and the State: Rethinking Development in Latin America

  Citation: 59

  Authors: Kregg, Jeremy M.

• Sacrificing Indigenous Bodies and Lands: The Political–Economic History of Lowland Bolivia in Light of the Recent TIPNIS Debate

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Nicole, Nancy

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