Anthropological Forum

Anthropological Forum

Discipline	Anthropology
Language	English
Edited  by	Laurent Dousset, Katie Glaskin, Nicholas Harney
Publication details
History	1963-present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis on behalf of the University of Western Australia  (Australia)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.000 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Anthropol. Forum
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ISSN	0066-4677  (print) 1469-2902  (web)
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Anthropological Forum (AF) is a scientific journal in anthropology and comparative sociology. It was founded in 1963 ^[1] by Ronald Berndt: ^[2] at the University of Western Australia and is sponsored by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology in Perth. In its early years of existence, it published widely on Aboriginal Australian issues, but has since developed to include anthropological studies of all cultural and geographical areas as well as on a wide range of theoretical issues.

Successive editors were Ronald Berndt (1963–1985), followed by John Gordon (1988–2000) and Robert Tonkinson (2000–2011). ^[3] The current editors are Laurent Dousset  [ fr ], Katie Glaskin and Nicholas Harney. In addition, the journal has Mitchell Low as Associate Editor and Sean Martin-Iverson as Book Review Editor.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Anthropological Index Online
• Anthropological Literature
• CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service ^[4]
• Current Abstracts
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• OCLC
• SCOPUS
• Sociological Abstracts
• Thomson Social Sciences Citation Index
• Social SciSearch and Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.000, ranking 38 out of 85 in the category "Anthropology". ^[5] According to SJR (Scimago Journal & Country Rank), it has a H Index of 17. ^[6]

References

1. "About this journal". Anthropological forum. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
2. "Anthropological Forum - The Journal". anthropologicalforum.net. Archived from the original on May 10, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
3. "Half century of anthropology news". News | The University Of Western Australia. Retrieved Mar 30, 2019.
4. "Australian Public Affairs Information Service". Informit. Retrieved Mar 30, 2019.
5. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Anthropology". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.
6. "Anthropological Forum". scimagojr.com. Retrieved Mar 30, 2019.