Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in ethnography. The journal's editors-in-chief are Charles Edgley and Jeffrey E. Nash (University of Arkansas, Little Rock). It was established in 1972 under the name Urban Life and Culture (later Urban Life) by SAGE Publications, who continue to publish it.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Discipline	Ethnography
Language	English
Edited by	Charles Edgley, Jeffrey E. Nash
Publication details
Former name(s)	Urban Life and Culture, Urban Life
History	1972-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	0.862 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Contemp. Ethnogr.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0891-2416 (print) 1552-5414 (web)
LCCN	87640830
OCLC no.	14687529
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 0.862, ranking it 32nd out of 40 journals in the category "Urban Studies"^[1] and 93rd out of 146 journals in the category "Sociology".^[2]