Asian anthropology

Asian anthropology is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Japanese History and Culture, Chinese history and philosophy and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, together about 23.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Asian Anthropology seeks to bring interesting and exciting new anthropological research on Asia to a global audience. We understand Asia not as a geographically fixed location with clearly demarcated borders, but as a social construct that is dynamic, relational, and evolving through interactions, transnational flows, and critical dialogues with multiple social actors at both institutional and individual levels. We try to move beyond the area studies paradigm which risks essentializing Asian cultures as bounded entities and perpetuating hierarchical relations between the so-called centers and peripheries. Instead, we embrace the concept of ‘global Asia,’ or, ‘Asia in the world,’ to attend to new and historical contexts such as migration, transnationalism, diaspora, cultural mixing and hybridizing, borderland politics, global pandemics such as Covid-19, geopolitical tensions between Asian countries and those in the Western world. We welcome contributions from anthropologists and colleagues in the social sciences and humanities who use ethnography as their main research method. We particularly welcome research which adopts a transnational and comparative perspective and adds new insight to critical knowledge about global Asia or Asia in the world. Another goal of the journal is to support emerging scholars who are in the early stages of their career development. We hope the journal can provide a platform for publishing some of the most exciting and innovative works by our colleagues in anthropology. All pieces submitted to Asian Anthropology should have a solid basis in ethnography, which we see as being at the heart of anthropology. Due in part to the constraints posed by Covid-19 to ethnographic projects, we also welcome submissions based on digital ethnography and long-distance fieldwork. We seek your general support through submissions, subscriptions, and comments. Asian Anthropology currently accepts five types of submission: 1. Research article (7000-9000 words) Research articles should have a theoretical argument that is of interest to anthropologists globally. Every year the editors will select one paper for the Best Paper Prize, which is a cash prize of 250 GBP. Free access to the papers of previous winners is available on our website. 2. Special issue (consisting of 4-7 papers, 6000-7000 words per paper) Papers in a special issue should have a coherent theme and promise to add theoretical and empirical innovation to the field of Asian anthropology.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Anthropology

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named Japan 9, Hong Kong, China 4, United Kingdom 4, Netherlands 4, Taiwan, China 2 (35 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Anthropological Index Online, Anthropological Literature (Online), MLA International BibliographyPublisher website

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Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.22LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.22Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0.69LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.69Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

27OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

106OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.84OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

41,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

10%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

98 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1683-478X

Electronic ISSN

2168-4227

Latest issue on the website

Volume 25, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website