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Anthropologischer Anzeiger (AA, ISSN 0003-5548)

Journal of Biological and Clinical Anthropology

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AA is abstracted in

  • MEDLine
  • PubMed
  • Social Science Citation Index
  • Social SciSearch
  • Journal Citation Report/Social Science Edition
  • Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Zoological Record
  • Biological Abstracts
  • BIOSIS Preview

AA is an international journal of human biology. It publishes original research papers on all fields of human biological research, that is, on all aspects, theoretical and practical of studies of human variability, including application of molecular methods and their tangents to cultural and social anthropology.
Other than research papers, AA invites the submission of case studies, reviews, technical notes and short reports.
AA is available online, papers must be submitted online to ensure rapid review and publication.

AA welcomes and encourages submission of papers particularly on the following topics:
  • Growth and development: studies on pre- and postnatal growth, with particular interest in aspects of health prevention, psycho-social, socio-economic, and environmental factors, which influence child and adolescent growth and maturation
  • Population genetics: geographical distribution of serological and biochemical markers and morphological and physiological traits.
  • Hominid evolution, palaeoanthropology, historical and forensic anthropology: studies on aDNA, osteology, demography, morphology, biomechanics, isotopes, palaeopathology, archaeology and pathology.
  • Human ethology
  • New methods in anthropology: description, development and application of new or improved methods for studying physical and biochemical traits, in sports and industrial anthropology.

Declaration of Helsinki compliance

All studies published in Anthropologischer Anzeiger must have been performed according to the Helsinki statement on proper treatments of human subjects:
All submitted papers must follow the safeguarding principles of Good Scientific Practice. Research involving Human and Animal Subjects must have been approved by the author’s institutional review board. Authors must include, in the Methods section, a brief statement identifying the institutional and/or licensing committee which approved the experiments. For experiments involving human subjects, authors must also include a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained of all subjects. All experiments involving human subjects must have been conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki.

Publication information

One volume, consisting of 4 issues is published per annum.