Visual Anthropology

Aims & Scope

Visual Anthropology is a scholarly journal presenting original articles, commentary, discussions, and film and book reviews on anthropological and ethnographic topics.

The journal focuses on the study of human behavior through visual means.

Experts in the field also examine visual symbolic forms from a cultural-historical framework and provide a cross-cultural study of art and artifacts.

Visual Anthropology also promotes the study, use, and production of anthropological and ethnographic films, videos, and photographs for research and teaching.

Additional topics cover: the relationship of cultural and visual perception; visual theories, technologies, and methodologies for recording and analyzing behavior and the relationships among different modes of communication; the study of human behavior through visual means; the analysis of the structuring of reality as evidenced by visual productions and artifacts; the study of the forms of social organization surrounding the planning, production, and use of visual symbolic forms; the support of urgent ethnographic filming; the use of media in cultural feedback.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.140

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	23

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25319

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	28

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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.

• Photographic “types”: The pursuit of method

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Elizabeth

• Risky Business: Race, Nonequivalence and the Humanitarian Politics of Life

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Adia

• Images, Senses and Applications: Engaging Visual Anthropology

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Sarah

• The visual ethnographic narrative¹

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Douglas

• How Women Are Using Television to Domesticate Globalization: A Case Study on the Reception and Consumption of<i>Telenovelas</i>in Senegal

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Jean-François

• Contemporary Fieldwork Aesthetics in Art and Anthropology: Experiments in Collaboration and Intervention

  Citation: 44

  Authors: George E.

• Photography and individualization in contemporary Africa: An Ivoirian case‐study

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Jean‐François

• The paradox of primitivism: Native rights and the problem of imagery in cultural survival films

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Harald E. L.

• Combining native instant photography and photo‐elicitation

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Lynn, Amanda W.

• The Prophetic Faculty of Epidemic Photography: Chinese Wet Markets and the Imagination of the Next Pandemic

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Christos

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