Junior scholars often mention they find the maze of journal titles bewildering. The following is a partial list of journal titles, organized alphabetically, alongside a few tips to help you get started: View list of journals.

To locate titles of interest on the list, I encourage you to use Control+F and to type in major subfields and related disciplines.

• Search tip: I used the following major keywords to identify subdisciplines: all branches, applied, archaeology, biological/physical, cultural/social, folklore, linguistic, medical, methods, and paleontology.
• Search tip: If the journal spans additional disciplines, these fields are noted, such as: biology, critical analysis, education, economics, humanities, material culture, musicology, political economy, popular culture, political science, and sociology. If a title was heavily interdisciplinary across many of these, I indicated "social sciences." If the scope of a journal covered literature and the fine arts, I indicated "humanities."
• Search tip: Geographical area(s) of specialization are only sometimes relevant, but if this is part of the scope of the journal, I added major continents and regions. Some examples include: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Micronesia/Polynesia.

Once you find publication(s) of interest to you, either click on the hyperlink or use a search engine to locate the Aims and Scope, an "About this journal" page, and/or "Author Submission Guidelines." Any of these documents will provide more details about the type of desired content, as well as submission details. Search tip: Sometimes you will need to type in journal name and the word "journal," in order to locate these documents.

Because maintaining working links is time-consuming, I only link to publications published by AAA.

In addition to matching your manuscript to a prospective journal's scope, many authors also look at where a journal is Abstracted and Indexed, in order to get a feel for the scholarly reach. Typically the more services that index a given journal, the more likely it is that the articles within will be located and read by a wider audience.

A further consideration may be to look to the journal's reputation in order to prioritize your preferred submission order. To be frank, ranking journals is controversial; no single system able to navigate the nuances of scholarly discourse in a completely fair or objective way. The table below offers three different means of evaluating titles, and each system has its flaws:

• "AAA Survey" column. In the summer of 2008 AAA asked approximately 150 anthropology departments to indicate an A, B, or C tier in terms of how their promotions and tenure committees generally perceive a journal. If a title is a newsletter or a magazine format, I gave the title a "G" for general interest, because these may have wider readership but may not garner as much weight with review committees. If a title has no ranking (--) in this column, due the survey's length, the journal title was not included in the summer 2008 survey.
• "Impact Factor" column. I list the 2008 Impact Factors, which list range for this list from 0.057 to 3.550. If a title has no impact factor (--), the journal has not been accepted by ISI, the company who owns and calculates the Impact Factor. Different departments view the Impact Factor differently. As a general rule of thumb, biological and medical disciplines tend to view Impact Factors as more significant. Humanities scholars and social scientists tend to use a variety of factors — sometimes the journal's peer review process and reputation, possibly alongside the Impact Factor — in evaluating journals.
• "SCImago" column. SCImago Journal Ranking provides a newer ranking system. If a title has no rank, (--), the title is not indexed by Scopus (or hasn't been indexed for a long enough by Scopus). This system uses reference lists as well as citations and measures these variables over three years. In 2007 these rankings ranged from 0.032 to 0.271.

A final note: Titles of the journals listed below published in 2008 or 2009. Please email corrections or suggestions to: oschmid@aaanet.org.

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