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 (1907-1995). "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 of Princeton University replaced Mark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced) as the editor-in-chief of the journal on January 1, 2019. Ralph is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.326, ranking it 15th out of 85 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". Current Anthropology