About this journal
Aims and scope
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) is a leading refereed scholarly journal that publishes social and cultural anthropological research with a focus on the Asia and Pacific region, including Australia. This region has been a crucible for significant advances in the discipline and remains an important site for the development of concepts and debates. The international focus of the journal encompasses regional scholars and emerging voices from centres of research in the region. Contributions may include digital media files, including video, that are published in the online version.
TAPJA publishes review essays, reviews of books and multimedia products (including music, films, and web sites) relevant to anthropological research and education.
The journal is now published 5 times a year. This allows timely publication of single articles as well the space to explore important current themes in special issues.
TAPJA is jointly published by the Department of Anthropology, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific and the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences at The Australian National University. TAPJA has been published continuously since 1977, formerly as Canberra Anthropology. Canberra Anthropology is now also available online through Informaworld.
Peer Review Policy
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and reports by at least two anonymous referees.
The TAPJA multimedia review column undergoes a different peer review process to regular full-length articles published in TAPJA, with peer review conducted by members of the editorial board only.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 57K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.0 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.491 (2023) SNIP
- 0.216 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 26 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 21 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 16% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editorial Collective
Editor-in-chief
Sverre Molland
Australian National University
Acting Editor-in-Chief
Patrick Guinness
Australian National University
Associate Editor (Pacific)
Thiago Oppermann
Australian National University
Editor Emeritus
Kathryn Robinson
Australian National University
Executive Editor
Diana Glazebrook
Australian National University
Short Essay Editor
Chris Chaplin
London School of Economics and Political Science
MultimediaReviews Editor
Alana Brekelmans
University of Queensland; Charles Darwin University
Advisory Board
Kathleen Adams - Loyola University Chicago; SOAS University of London
Xiang Biao - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Tom Cliff - Australian National University
Jennifer Deger - Charles Darwin University
Assa Doron - Australian National University
Jane Ferguson - Australian National University
Magnus Fiskesjö - Cornell University, United States
James J. Fox - Australian National University
Eric Harms - Yale University
Maya Haviland - Australian National University
Tanya Jakimow - Australian National University
Andrew Kipnis - Chinese University of Hong Kong
Don Kulick - Hong Kong University and Uppsala University
Deirdre McKay - Keele University
Marama Muru-Lanning - Auckland University
Kirin Narayan - Australian National University
Eva Nisa - Australian National University
Katerina Teaiwa - Australian National University
Borut Telban - Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
Matt Tomlinson - Australian National University
Marina Welker - Cornell University
Yujie Zhu - Australian National University
Abstracting and indexing
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology is abstracted/indexed in: Anthropological Index Online; Anthropological Literature; Current Abstracts; Index Islamicus; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC.
Open access
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
5 issues per year
Currently known as:
- The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (2000 - current)
Formerly known as
- Canberra Anthropology (1977 - 1999)
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