About American Journal of Human Biology

American Journal of Human Biology

The American Journal of Human Biology is the official journal of the Human Biology Association. William R. Leonard, Abraham Harris Professor of Anthropology & Global Health at Northwestern University, serves as the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. Read more about Dr. Leonard here. The AJHB is published monthly online by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed original articles, reviews, short reports, invited commentary, book reviews, and invited methods contributions as part of the “Human Biology Toolkit” Series. The Journal also publishes the abstracts and program for the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association as a freely-accessible supplement each year.

“Editor’s Choice”

Each issue of the AJHB features a prominent paper as the “Editor’s Choice”. The “Editor’s Choice” papers are highlighted on the journal’s webpage:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15206300/homepage/editorschoice.html

Each selected article is freely available to download for a period of 2 months post publication.

“Human Biology Toolkit” Series

Since 2012, the AJHB has published invited papers on novel research methods as part of its “Human Biology Toolkit” Series. Papers in this series highlight diverse methods used by human biologists for collecting and analyzing information on human variation and health in laboratory and field settings. Papers in the Toolkit Series are featured on the journal’s webpage:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15206300/homepage/toolkit__methods_in_human_biology.htm

Each Toolkit paper is freely available to download for a period of 2 months post publication.

For questions or more information about Toolkit papers please contact the Series Editor, Gillian Bentley at g.r.bentley@durham.ac.uk

Open Science Badges from the Center for Open Science

Recognizing the importance of research transparency and data sharing to cumulative research, the AJHB encourages Open Research practices. In partnership with the non-profit Center for Open Science (COS), the AJHB offers all submitting authors access to the following three Open Research Badges— Open Materials, Open Data, and Preregistered Research Designs. We also award all qualifying authors Open Research Badges recognizing their contributions to the Open Research movement. Additional information about the program is available in the journal’s “Author Guidelines”:

American Journal of Human Biology (wiley.com)

Accessing the AJHB

We now have a new, more convenient method of accessing the journal requiring no separate login at the Wiley site:

Log into your humbio.org account.

Make sure your Human Biology Association membership is current and active.

Finally, follow this link, which will redirect you to the AJHB page at Wiley with full access to all issues, current and past: AJHB Access Link.

Since this is a new functionality, there may be some initial glitches. Please let us know using the contact page if you run into difficulty.

Accessing AJHB

We now have a new, more convenient method of accessing the journal requiring no separate login at the Wiley site:

Log into your account on this webpage.
Make sure your Human Biology Association membership is current and active.
Finally, click the 'AJHB Access Link' button below, which will redirect you to the AJHB page at Wiley with full access to all issues, current and past:

AJHB Access Link

Since this is a new functionality, there may be some initial glitches. Please let us know using the contact page if you run into difficulty.