Transforming Anthropology

Aims & Scope

As the chief publication of the Association of Black Anthropologists, Transforming Anthropology advances scholarship across the four fields and beyond.

We seek contributions that reflect the dynamic, transnational, and contested conditions of the social worlds, and work that pushes the boundaries of discipline and genre.

The publication interrogates the contemporary and historical construction of social inequities based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and other invidious distinctions.

We remain committed to publishing material that generates dialogues among communities of scholars, activists, artists, and the people with whom they work.

Transforming Anthropology is published semiannually.

We invite the submission of research articles for peer review, as well as short commentaries, research reports, review essays, interviews, and other innovative formats.

Submissions from advanced graduate students are especially welcome.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.9
2024	1.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.388

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	17

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14086

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	43

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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.

• CIRCUITS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DISPOSSESSION: THE RACIALIZED REALIGNMENT OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE FOR U.S. YOUTH

  Citation: 157

  Authors: Michelle, Jessica

• Facing the Dragon: Black Mothering, Sequelae, and Gendered Necropolitics in the Americas

  Citation: 135

  Authors: Christen A.

• Resistance and Resilience: The Sojourner Syndrome and the Social Context of Reproduction in Cenral Harlem

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Leith

• Black Girl Ordinary: Flesh, Carcerality, and the Refusal of Ethnography

  Citation: 124

  Authors: Savannah

• The Racist Anti‐Racism of American Anthropology

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Lee D.

• Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940‐2000

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Karen J.

• Cultural Politics of Black Masculinity

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Edmund T.

• The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties

  Citation: 59

  Authors: Michael L.

• Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Intellectual Thought in Anthropology

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Lynn

• <i>Muertos Civiles</i>: Mourning the Casualties of Racism in the Dominican Republic

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Amarilys

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