Medical Anthropology Quarterly

*Medical Anthropology Quarterly*
Discipline	Anthropology, medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Clarence C. Gravlee
Publication details
Former name(s)	Medical Anthropology Newsletter
History	1983-present
Publisher	Society for Medical Anthropology
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Med. Anthropol. Q.
Indexing;
CODEN	MAQUD5
ISSN	0745-5194;
OCLC no.	09250614
Links
	Journal homepage;

Medical Anthropology Quarterly (MAQ) is an international peer-reviewed academic journal published for the Society for Medical Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association. It publishes research and theory about human health and disease from all areas of medical anthropology. The purpose is to stimulate important ideas and debates in medical anthropology and to explore the links between medical anthropology, the parent discipline of anthropology, and neighboring disciplines in the health and social sciences. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.607, ranking it 31st out of 37 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Biomedical".^[1]

The current Editor is Clarence C. Gravlee, who began a four-year term on January 1, 2013. Outgoing editors Mark Luborsky and Andrea Sankar will continue to participate (through June 30, 2013) in peer review of manuscripts that were originally submitted in 2012.