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Best open-access journals for Anthropology

The top 40 of 54 Anthropology journals, open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by whether OpenAlex and Scimago agree on the subject and how central Anthropology is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), leaving out journals both place in another discipline, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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  1. 1
    Cultural Anthropology
    1.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Social Anthropology
    0.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Revista del Museo de Antropología
    0.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Museo de Antropologia
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  4. 4
    Vestnik arheologii, antropologii i ètnografii
    0.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institut problem osvoenii͡a Severa SO RAN
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  5. 5
    Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  6. 6
    Klio
    0.2 cites/paper · Q1 · De Gruyter
    Open AccessScopus
  7. 7
    Meander : miesięcznik poświęcony kulturze świata starożytnego
    0.0 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  8. 8
    Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)
    0.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  9. 9
    Arqueología
    0.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  10. 10
    Revista de Arqueologia
    0.5 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  11. 11
    Revista Colombiana de Antropología
    0.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  12. 12
    Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  13. 13
    Chungara
    0.2 cites/paper · Q2 · University of Tarapacá
    Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
  14. 14
    American Indian Culture and Research Journal
    0.7 cites/paper · Q3 · University of Minnesota Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Horizontes Antropológicos
    0.5 cites/paper · Q3 · Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  16. 16
    AIBR Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana
    0.5 cites/paper · Q3 · Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  17. 17
    Anthropologica
    0.3 cites/paper · Q3 · University of Toronto Press
    Open AccessScopusPubMed
  18. 18
    Mana
    0.3 cites/paper · Q3 · Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  19. 19
    Etnografica
    0.3 cites/paper · Q3 · Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  20. 20
    Revista de Antropologia
    0.2 cites/paper · Q3 · University of São Paulo
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  21. 21
    Germania: Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
    0.1 cites/paper · Q3
    Open AccessScopus
  22. 22
    Scripta Classica Israelica
    0.9 cites/paper · Q3
    Open AccessScopus
  23. 23
    Pallas
    0.5 cites/paper · Q3 · Publications Department of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  24. 24
    Gazeta de Antropología
    0.8 cites/paper · Q4 · Asociación Granadina de Antropología
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  25. 25
    Dialogues d histoire ancienne
    0.0 cites/paper · Q4 · University of Franche-Comté
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  26. 26
    Aboriginal History Journal
    0.2 cites/paper · Q4 · Australian National University
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    Afro-Ásia
    0.3 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Universidade Federal da Bahia
    Open AccessDOAJ
  28. 28
    Elore
    0.2 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Finnish Folklore Society
    Open Access
  29. 29
    Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
    0.2 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · University of Belgrade
    Open AccessDOAJWeb of Science
  30. 30
    Nova Tellus
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Open AccessDOAJ
  31. 31
    Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open Access
  32. 32
    مجلة الدراسات الأفريقية
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Egypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research
    Open AccessDOAJ
  33. 33
    Gallia
    0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · CNRS Éditions
    Open AccessDOAJ
  34. 34
    Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open Access
  35. 35
    Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
    0.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Brill
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  36. 36
    History Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus
    0.2 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessScopus
  37. 37
    Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Litteraria Polonica
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Lodz Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  38. 38
    Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne
    0.1 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessScopus
  39. 39
    The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
    1.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Cambridge University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  40. 40
    Revista de História
    0.4 cites/paper · Q3 · University of São Paulo
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

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Frequently asked

Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Revista del Museo de Antropología, Vestnik arheologii, antropologii i ètnografii, Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei lead this list, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. The top 40 of 54 ranked venues are listed on this page; 14 are Scimago Q1, 4 Q2, 11 Q3, 3 Q4 and 8 have no Scimago quartile. Journals are placed by two independent classifications, OpenAlex's and Scimago's, plus any documented corrections. A journal both place under Anthropology ranks ahead, within its Scimago quartile, of one only OpenAlex places there — because Scimago does not cover it, files it as Multidisciplinary, or files it under a neighbouring subject or only under a broad “(miscellaneous)” category (which counts as agreement when Anthropology is the journal's main OpenAlex subfield). By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, journals both sources place under Anthropology come first, then venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Anthropology come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Anthropology — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Anthropology — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (3 of the 54 journals ranked here are below that floor; 2 of them are among the 40 shown). Only open-access venues are included. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded. For a match to your specific paper use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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