Current Anthropology
Current Anthropology is a peer-reviewed anthropology academic journal published by the University of [Chicago Press] for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Founded in 1959 by the anthropologist Sol Tax. Current Anthropology is one of very few journals that publishes research across all sub-disciplines of anthropology, 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, including social, cultural, physical and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, ethnohistory, archaeology, prehistory and folklore. Laurence Ralph replaced Mark Aldenderfer as the editor-in-chief of the journal on January 1, 2019.
According to the Journal [Citation Reports], the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.226, ranking it 10th out of 93 journals in the category "Anthropology".
Current Applications is an open-access section of Current Anthropology that presents research bridging academic and applied anthropology. Recent Current Applications papers have addressed wind energy and the New Jersey shore, African asylum-seekers, and the popular television show Bones.