An Analysis of Authorship in Anthropology Journals, 1963 & 1983

Abstract

Patterns of collaboration and affiliation of authors of the major U.S. anthropology journals are found to be parallel to those of citations reported in the previous study in terms of subdisciplinary and disciplinary interactions with other disciplines. The dominance of outsiders is found to be most severe in physical and linguistic anthropology, while sociocultural and archaeological anthropologists seem to be able to maintain their intellectual identity. The paper also discusses how this phenomenon might contribute to the sense of crisis felt among anthropologists.