Social Analysis

Aims & Scope

Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research.

It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis.

The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight.

By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences.

The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes.

The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond.

Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science

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.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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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.

• Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement

  Citation: 192

  Authors: Cathrine

• Governing through Uncertainty: Experiences of Being a Refugee in Turkey as a Country for Temporary Asylum

  Citation: 127

  Authors: Kristen Sarah

• Flight and Exile—Uncertainty in the Context of Conflict-Induced Displacement

  Citation: 113

  Authors: Cindy, Katarzyna

• The Ontological Turn: Taking Different Worlds Seriously

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Andrew

• Living an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Uncertainty, and Well-Being among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Nadia

• Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Joel

• Cementing Relations: The Materiality of Roads and Public Spaces in Provincial Peru

  Citation: 71

  Authors: Penelope

• Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Tatjana, Larissa, Keebet

• Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Bruce

• A Day in the Cadillac: The Work of Hope in Urban Mongolia

  Citation: 68

  Authors: Morten Axel