Current Anthropology

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SCImago
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WOS
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Impact factor
1.8
SJR
0.785
CiteScore
4.8
Categories
Anthropology
Archeology
Archeology (arts and humanities)
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1962-1963, 1965-1968, 1970-1971, 1974, 1978-1988, 1992-2025
journal names
Current Anthropology
CURR ANTHROPOL
Publications
7 778
Citations
142 949
h-index
161
Publications
443
Citations
45 509
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 countries
USA (271 publications)
Germany (42 publications)
France (26 publications)
Germany (3 publications)
USA (2 publications)
France (1 publication)

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Citing journals

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Current Anthropology
3598 citations, 2.52%
Journal of Human Evolution
2559 citations, 1.79%
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2495 citations, 1.75%
Quaternary International
2354 citations, 1.65%
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2284 citations, 1.6%
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
1983 citations, 1.39%
Journal of Archaeological Science
1892 citations, 1.32%
PLoS ONE
1790 citations, 1.25%
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
1474 citations, 1.03%
American Anthropologist
1361 citations, 0.95%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
1055 citations, 0.74%
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
990 citations, 0.69%
American Antiquity
978 citations, 0.68%
Evolutionary Anthropology
951 citations, 0.67%
Human Nature
950 citations, 0.66%
Journal of Archaeological Research
901 citations, 0.63%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
871 citations, 0.61%
Quaternary Science Reviews
870 citations, 0.61%
Annual Review of Anthropology
866 citations, 0.61%
Evolution and Human Behavior
848 citations, 0.59%
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
762 citations, 0.53%
Antiquity
756 citations, 0.53%
Scientific Reports
729 citations, 0.51%
World Archaeology
681 citations, 0.48%
American Ethnologist
646 citations, 0.45%
American Journal of Human Biology
639 citations, 0.45%
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
580 citations, 0.41%
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
572 citations, 0.4%
Latin American Antiquity
556 citations, 0.39%
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
513 citations, 0.36%
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
479 citations, 0.34%
Human Ecology
468 citations, 0.33%
SSRN Electronic Journal
467 citations, 0.33%
Journal of Field Archaeology
455 citations, 0.32%
Journal of World Prehistory
445 citations, 0.31%
Ancient Mesoamerica
404 citations, 0.28%
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
398 citations, 0.28%
Frontiers in Psychology
390 citations, 0.27%
Anthropological Theory
358 citations, 0.25%
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
346 citations, 0.24%
Science
335 citations, 0.23%
Social Science and Medicine
335 citations, 0.23%
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
323 citations, 0.23%
Ethnos
314 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
296 citations, 0.21%
American Journal of Biological Anthropology
283 citations, 0.2%
African Archaeological Review
267 citations, 0.19%
Holocene
259 citations, 0.18%
American Journal of Primatology
254 citations, 0.18%
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
253 citations, 0.18%
Reviews in Anthropology
250 citations, 0.17%
Nature
247 citations, 0.17%
Anthropologie
245 citations, 0.17%
Lithic Technology
240 citations, 0.17%
Critique of Anthropology
237 citations, 0.17%
Animal Behaviour
231 citations, 0.16%
Geoforum
224 citations, 0.16%
International Journal of Paleopathology
224 citations, 0.16%
Human Organization
223 citations, 0.16%
Azania
222 citations, 0.16%
Social Anthropology
221 citations, 0.15%
Archaeological Research in Asia
217 citations, 0.15%
Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
215 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Social Archaeology
207 citations, 0.14%
International Journal of Primatology
207 citations, 0.14%
Evolutionary Human Sciences
205 citations, 0.14%
History and Anthropology
204 citations, 0.14%
Cross-Cultural Research
193 citations, 0.14%
Archaeology in Oceania
190 citations, 0.13%
Geoarchaeology - An International Journal
189 citations, 0.13%
Biological Theory
188 citations, 0.13%
Primates
187 citations, 0.13%
Historical Archaeology
179 citations, 0.13%
Sustainability
178 citations, 0.12%
Royal Society Open Science
177 citations, 0.12%
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
176 citations, 0.12%
Religion, Brain and Behavior
170 citations, 0.12%
Environmental Archaeology
169 citations, 0.12%
Radiocarbon
168 citations, 0.12%
Archaeological Dialogues
167 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
166 citations, 0.12%
Ethos
166 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Ethnobiology
161 citations, 0.11%
Evolutionary Psychology
161 citations, 0.11%
Religions
155 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Anthropological Research
152 citations, 0.11%
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
151 citations, 0.11%
North American Archaeologist
149 citations, 0.1%
Archaeometry
143 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
140 citations, 0.1%
Oceania
140 citations, 0.1%
HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology
138 citations, 0.1%
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
138 citations, 0.1%
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
133 citations, 0.09%
Time and Mind
133 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
132 citations, 0.09%
Ethology and Sociobiology
132 citations, 0.09%
Nature Communications
131 citations, 0.09%
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
130 citations, 0.09%
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
127 citations, 0.09%
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Citing publishers

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Elsevier
23144 citations, 16.19%
Wiley
18826 citations, 13.17%
Springer Nature
18563 citations, 12.99%
Cambridge University Press
17290 citations, 12.1%
Taylor & Francis
12932 citations, 9.05%
SAGE
6780 citations, 4.74%
University of Chicago Press
4592 citations, 3.21%
Oxford University Press
2141 citations, 1.5%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1960 citations, 1.37%
The Royal Society
1843 citations, 1.29%
MDPI
1617 citations, 1.13%
Frontiers Media S.A.
1321 citations, 0.92%
Annual Reviews
1250 citations, 0.87%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
1158 citations, 0.81%
Duke University Press
1070 citations, 0.75%
Emerald
733 citations, 0.51%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
630 citations, 0.44%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
626 citations, 0.44%
American Psychological Association (APA)
565 citations, 0.4%
Walter de Gruyter
552 citations, 0.39%
OpenEdition
539 citations, 0.38%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
487 citations, 0.34%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
465 citations, 0.33%
CAIRN
362 citations, 0.25%
Consortium Erudit
334 citations, 0.23%
University of California Press
305 citations, 0.21%
SciELO
237 citations, 0.17%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
221 citations, 0.15%
Berghahn Books
216 citations, 0.15%
Brill
201 citations, 0.14%
Center for Western Studies
174 citations, 0.12%
IGI Global
171 citations, 0.12%
Liverpool University Press
136 citations, 0.1%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
130 citations, 0.09%
American Anthropological Association
128 citations, 0.09%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
125 citations, 0.09%
Hindawi Limited
109 citations, 0.08%
Institute of archaeology and ethnography SB RAS
94 citations, 0.07%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
92 citations, 0.06%
BMJ
88 citations, 0.06%
Equinox Publishing
88 citations, 0.06%
MIT Press
85 citations, 0.06%
Ubiquity Press
85 citations, 0.06%
84 citations, 0.06%
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
82 citations, 0.06%
Maney Publishing
80 citations, 0.06%
IOP Publishing
78 citations, 0.05%
Akademiai Kiado
78 citations, 0.05%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
77 citations, 0.05%
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
73 citations, 0.05%
Science in China Press
73 citations, 0.05%
PeerJ
70 citations, 0.05%
S. Karger AG
70 citations, 0.05%
Anthropological Society of Nippon
66 citations, 0.05%
eLife Sciences Publications
63 citations, 0.04%
F1000 Research
63 citations, 0.04%
Katholieke Universiteit, Instituut voor Culturele en Sociale Antropologie, University Of Nijmegen
61 citations, 0.04%
University of Adelaide
60 citations, 0.04%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
57 citations, 0.04%
PERSEE Program
55 citations, 0.04%
Wayne State University Press
54 citations, 0.04%
The Company of Biologists
51 citations, 0.04%
Geological Society of London
51 citations, 0.04%
American Economic Association
50 citations, 0.03%
Copernicus
49 citations, 0.03%
IntechOpen
49 citations, 0.03%
AOSIS
48 citations, 0.03%
University of Illinois Press
46 citations, 0.03%
Brazilian Anthropology Association
44 citations, 0.03%
African Studies Association
43 citations, 0.03%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
43 citations, 0.03%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
43 citations, 0.03%
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
40 citations, 0.03%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
40 citations, 0.03%
Academy of Management
40 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
40 citations, 0.03%
Intellect
40 citations, 0.03%
Kent State University
39 citations, 0.03%
World Scientific
37 citations, 0.03%
EDP Sciences
37 citations, 0.03%
Mary Ann Liebert
36 citations, 0.03%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
35 citations, 0.02%
Canadian Science Publishing
34 citations, 0.02%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
34 citations, 0.02%
CSIRO Publishing
33 citations, 0.02%
Universidad de los Andes
32 citations, 0.02%
Edinburgh University Press
30 citations, 0.02%
Duncker & Humblot GmbH
27 citations, 0.02%
Maisonneuve et Larose
26 citations, 0.02%
Research Square Platform LLC
25 citations, 0.02%
Indiana University Press
24 citations, 0.02%
Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
24 citations, 0.02%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
24 citations, 0.02%
Masaryk University Press
24 citations, 0.02%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
23 citations, 0.02%
American Meteorological Society
23 citations, 0.02%
Editorial CSIC
23 citations, 0.02%
Archaeological Institute of America
22 citations, 0.02%
Primate Society of Japan
22 citations, 0.02%
Pleiades Publishing
21 citations, 0.01%
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
23 publications, 0.3%
University of California, Davis
21 publications, 0.27%
University of California, Los Angeles
15 publications, 0.19%
Harvard University
13 publications, 0.17%
University of Utah
11 publications, 0.14%
University of California, Berkeley
8 publications, 0.1%
University of California, Santa Barbara
8 publications, 0.1%
University of Zurich
7 publications, 0.09%
Australian National University
7 publications, 0.09%
Northwestern University
7 publications, 0.09%
University of Arizona
7 publications, 0.09%
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
7 publications, 0.09%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7 publications, 0.09%
University of Oxford
6 publications, 0.08%
University of Siena
6 publications, 0.08%
University of Washington
6 publications, 0.08%
University of Missouri
6 publications, 0.08%
University College London
5 publications, 0.06%
University of Cambridge
5 publications, 0.06%
Pennsylvania State University
5 publications, 0.06%
Stanford University
5 publications, 0.06%
University of Notre Dame
5 publications, 0.06%
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
5 publications, 0.06%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
5 publications, 0.06%
University of Oklahoma
5 publications, 0.06%
University of Copenhagen
4 publications, 0.05%
University of Southern California
4 publications, 0.05%
University of Auckland
4 publications, 0.05%
University of the Witwatersrand
4 publications, 0.05%
Washington State University
4 publications, 0.05%
Arizona State University
4 publications, 0.05%
New York University
4 publications, 0.05%
University of California, San Diego
4 publications, 0.05%
University of Michigan
4 publications, 0.05%
McGill University
4 publications, 0.05%
Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
4 publications, 0.05%
University of Pennsylvania
4 publications, 0.05%
Wichita State University
4 publications, 0.05%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
3 publications, 0.04%
Durham University
3 publications, 0.04%
Aarhus University
3 publications, 0.04%
Yale University
3 publications, 0.04%
Princeton University
3 publications, 0.04%
University of California, Merced
3 publications, 0.04%
University of Chicago
3 publications, 0.04%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 0.04%
University of British Columbia
3 publications, 0.04%
Leiden University
3 publications, 0.04%
Brown University
3 publications, 0.04%
Emory University
3 publications, 0.04%
University of Cincinnati
3 publications, 0.04%
Indiana University Bloomington
3 publications, 0.04%
Universidad de Chile
3 publications, 0.04%
New Mexico State University
3 publications, 0.04%
University of Nevada, Reno
3 publications, 0.04%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2 publications, 0.03%
Ghent University
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Bologna
2 publications, 0.03%
Aalborg University
2 publications, 0.03%
Stony Brook University
2 publications, 0.03%
Michigan State University
2 publications, 0.03%
Cornell University
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Melbourne
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Queensland
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Wollongong
2 publications, 0.03%
Columbia University
2 publications, 0.03%
George Washington University
2 publications, 0.03%
Washington University in St. Louis
2 publications, 0.03%
Duke University
2 publications, 0.03%
Syracuse University
2 publications, 0.03%
Ohio State University
2 publications, 0.03%
Northern Illinois University
2 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Riverside
2 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Santa Cruz
2 publications, 0.03%
University of South Florida
2 publications, 0.03%
Vanderbilt University
2 publications, 0.03%
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2 publications, 0.03%
Collège de France
2 publications, 0.03%
American Museum of Natural History
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Sheffield
2 publications, 0.03%
Baylor University
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Alberta
2 publications, 0.03%
Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2 publications, 0.03%
École pratique des hautes études
2 publications, 0.03%
Universidad de Tarapacá
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2 publications, 0.03%
University of New Mexico
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Kansas
2 publications, 0.03%
University at Albany, State University of New York
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Pittsburgh
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Montana
2 publications, 0.03%
University of Maine
2 publications, 0.03%
Kazan Federal University
1 publication, 0.01%
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Tübingen
1 publication, 0.01%
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1 publication, 0.01%
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1 publication, 0.01%
Lund University
1 publication, 0.01%
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
3 publications, 0.68%
Aalborg University
2 publications, 0.45%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 0.45%
Aarhus University
2 publications, 0.45%
University of California, Los Angeles
2 publications, 0.45%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0.23%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 0.23%
East China University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.23%
Université Catholique de Louvain
1 publication, 0.23%
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
1 publication, 0.23%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 0.23%
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
1 publication, 0.23%
McGill University
1 publication, 0.23%
University of British Columbia
1 publication, 0.23%
Wake Forest University
1 publication, 0.23%
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1 publication, 0.23%
University of Oklahoma
1 publication, 0.23%
Toulouse School of Economics
1 publication, 0.23%
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USA, 271, 3.48%
USA
271 publications, 3.48%
Germany, 42, 0.54%
Germany
42 publications, 0.54%
France, 26, 0.33%
France
26 publications, 0.33%
United Kingdom, 25, 0.32%
United Kingdom
25 publications, 0.32%
Italy, 24, 0.31%
Italy
24 publications, 0.31%
Canada, 17, 0.22%
Canada
17 publications, 0.22%
Australia, 14, 0.18%
Australia
14 publications, 0.18%
Netherlands, 11, 0.14%
Netherlands
11 publications, 0.14%
Spain, 8, 0.1%
Spain
8 publications, 0.1%
Switzerland, 8, 0.1%
Switzerland
8 publications, 0.1%
New Zealand, 5, 0.06%
New Zealand
5 publications, 0.06%
Republic of Korea, 5, 0.06%
Republic of Korea
5 publications, 0.06%
South Africa, 5, 0.06%
South Africa
5 publications, 0.06%
Israel, 4, 0.05%
Israel
4 publications, 0.05%
Mexico, 4, 0.05%
Mexico
4 publications, 0.05%
Denmark, 3, 0.04%
Denmark
3 publications, 0.04%
Sweden, 3, 0.04%
Sweden
3 publications, 0.04%
Russia, 2, 0.03%
Russia
2 publications, 0.03%
China, 2, 0.03%
China
2 publications, 0.03%
Brazil, 2, 0.03%
Brazil
2 publications, 0.03%
India, 2, 0.03%
India
2 publications, 0.03%
Chile, 2, 0.03%
Chile
2 publications, 0.03%
Japan, 2, 0.03%
Japan
2 publications, 0.03%
Portugal, 1, 0.01%
Portugal
1 publication, 0.01%
Austria, 1, 0.01%
Austria
1 publication, 0.01%
Bangladesh, 1, 0.01%
Bangladesh
1 publication, 0.01%
Belgium, 1, 0.01%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.01%
Bolivia, 1, 0.01%
Bolivia
1 publication, 0.01%
Hungary, 1, 0.01%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.01%
Guam, 1, 0.01%
Guam
1 publication, 0.01%
Norway, 1, 0.01%
Norway
1 publication, 0.01%
Montenegro, 1, 0.01%
Montenegro
1 publication, 0.01%
Sri Lanka, 1, 0.01%
Sri Lanka
1 publication, 0.01%
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Germany, 3, 0.68%
Germany
3 publications, 0.68%
USA, 2, 0.45%
USA
2 publications, 0.45%
France, 1, 0.23%
France
1 publication, 0.23%
Canada, 1, 0.23%
Canada
1 publication, 0.23%
Norway, 1, 0.23%
Norway
1 publication, 0.23%
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