Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Aims & Scope

Medical Anthropology Quarterly is an international journal published by the Society for Medical Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association.

The journal publishes research and theory in all areas of medical anthropology.

Its goal is to stimulate development of important theory, methods, and debates in medical anthropology and to explore the links between medical anthropology, the broader field of anthropology, and neighboring fields in the humanities, social sciences, and health-related disciplines, including public health and clinical practice.

The Journal is committed to scholarship that seeks to undo the structures of white supremacy, (settler) colonialism, and the knowledge practices upon which these have been built.

We aim to provide space for antiracist and anticolonial praxis, and are committed to amplifying the voices and perspectives of underrepresented scholars from around the globe, including in our practices of publication, citation, and circulation.

Our publishing prioritizes holistic and cross-cultural perspectives that are distinctive of anthropology in general.

This approach encompasses, but is not limited to such topics as: the meaning and experience of sickness, health, and healing the structural, cultural, and linguistic context of healing practices and access to care cultural, political, economic, and ecological influences on individual and population health and climate change interactions between cultural and biological dimensions of health and healing critical analysis of health-related research, policies, and interventions ethnographic research on medical practice, technologies, and knowledge production global and transnational dimensions of health and health care applications of anthropological theory and methods in health-related practice.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9
2024	2.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.770

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	69

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7129

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	187

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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

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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.

• The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology

  Citation: 1550

  Authors: Nancy, Margaret M.

• Syndemics and Public Health: Reconceptualizing Disease in Bio‐Social Context

  Citation: 847

  Authors: Merill, Scott

• A Systematic Approach for Using Qualitative Methods in Primary Prevention Research

  Citation: 246

  Authors: Dennis G., J. Allan, D. Wayne, J. Raymond, Douglas M. C., Elizabeth A., Joel

• On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia

  Citation: 213

  Authors: Janelle S.

• Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The Delegitimation of Illness Experience in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Norma C.

• The Body's Insistence on Meaning: Metaphor as Presentation and Representation in Illness Experience

  Citation: 194

  Authors: Laurence J.

• Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State

  Citation: 194

  Authors: Emily

• Organ Transplantation as a Transformative Experience: Anthropological Insights into the Restructuring of the Self

  Citation: 186

  Authors: Lesley A.

• The Charm of Medicines: Metaphors and Metonyms

  Citation: 179

  Authors: Sjaak, Susan Reynolds

• Chromosomes and Communication: The Discourse of Genetic Counseling

  Citation: 179

  Authors: Rayna

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