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| Discipline | Anthropology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Laurence Ralph |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1959–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Hybrid | |
| 3.226 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Curr. Anthropol. |
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| ISSN | 0011-3204 (print) 1537-5382 (web) |
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Current Anthropology is apeer-reviewedanthropologyacademic journal published by theUniversity of Chicago Press for theWenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Founded in 1959 by the anthropologistSol Tax (1907-1995).Current Anthropology is one of very few journals that publishes research across all sub-disciplines ofanthropology, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, includingsocial,cultural,physical andlinguistic anthropology as well asethnology,ethnohistory,archaeology, prehistory andfolklore.Laurence Ralph (Princeton University) replacedMark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced) as theeditor-in-chief of the journal on January 1, 2019.[1]
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021impact factor of 3.226, ranking it 10th out of 93 journals in the category "Anthropology".[2]
Current Applications is an open-access section ofCurrent Anthropology that presents research bridging academic and applied anthropology. RecentCurrent Applications papers have addressedwind energy and the New Jersey shore, Africanasylum-seekers, and the popular television showBones.
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