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Annual Review of Anthropology
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Annual Review of Anthropology

0084-6570

Published by: Annual Reviews

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/anthro

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 907 8 8 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 13
Documents by Best Scientists*: 13
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Annual Review of Anthropology?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Politics, Linguistics and Ethnography. The research on Anthropology tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Gender studies and Biography. The main emphasis of it is the subject of Archaeology, focusing on Prehistory.

Annual Review of Anthropology focused on Politics research but expanded to cover Social science.

  • Anthropology (27.03%)
  • Archaeology (12.31%)
  • Politics (11.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography (3982 citations)
  • POETICS AND PERFORMANCE AS CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL LIFE (1628 citations)
  • Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life (1536 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Annual Review of Anthropology:

Anthropology, Politics, Gender studies, Social science and Linguistics are the main subjects of interest in the journal publications. The journal papers address concerns in the field of Anthropology by exploring it in line with topics in Context (language use) which intersect with Epistemology and Variation (linguistics) subjects. The most cited publications with studies in Politics featured incorporate elements of Scholarship, Archaeology and State (polity).

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Linguistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Epistemology, Social relation, Political economy, Politics and Commodification.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Human Evolution in Asia: Taking Stock and Looking Forward (1 citations)
  • The Political Economy of Attention (0 citations)
  • Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Annual Review of Anthropology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • William H. Durham (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Don Brenneis (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Karen B. Strier (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter T. Ellison (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael Kearney (3 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Annual Review of Anthropology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Chicago (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Columbia University (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Los Angeles (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Yale University (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Max Planck Society (12 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 37.50% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.50% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.00% of all publications and 25.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19

    Merrill Singer;Nicola Bulled;Bayla Ostrach;Shir Lerman Ginzburg

    (2021)
    41 Citations
  • The Semiotics of Cooperation

    (2022)
    34 Citations
  • The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology

    (2022)
    19 Citations
  • Prehistory of Kinship

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • What Makes Inventions Become Traditions?

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change

    (2023)
    6 Citations
  • Thinking in Between Disciplines

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health

    (2024)
    1 Citations

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