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120Eusebiojournals, the topic gained more attention in Antiquity and a substantialnumber of articles highlighted it.It was demonstrated before that for 15 years, the topic of thisanalysis gained gradual attention. It was minimal from 1996 to 2000, hadan increase in scholarly attention from 2001 to 2005, and gained moreattention from 2006 to 2010. The anthropology subfields ofbioanthropology and archaeology are almost equally included across theanalysed articles. All bioanthropology focused articles, except two articleson morphological analysis, are based on genetics researches addressinghuman population diversity and history. They are found in AmericanJournal of Physical Anthropology and Molecular Biology and Evolution. On thecontrary, no single trend was observed in archaeology focused articles.Most of them are found in Antiquity.This analysis reflects how Austronesian dispersal from Taiwan toSoutheast Asia is being tackled based on five journals. The researches thatencompassed bioanthropology and archaeology are dominated by thegeneticists and archaeologists, as reflected in American Journal of PhysicalAnthropology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Antiquity. However,this analysis does not reflect the actual amount of researches done on thistopic. More human population genetics researches could be found inAmerican Journal of Human Genetics. At the same time, papers on theanimal and plant genetics could be found in Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Science. In addition, other articles on this topic are found inregional journals, such as Journal of Austronesian Studies and AsianPerspectives. The perspectives supporting and contradicting the NeolithicOut of Taiwan migration are somewhat balanced in Current Anthropologyand Antiquity. American Anthropologist reflected only the perspectivesfrom the American anthropology, since non-US educated researchers tendnot to publish in this journal. The analyst would like to add one strikingobservation. The main proponent (Wilhelm Solheim II) of the alternativeNusantao hypothesis did not publish any articles in AmericanAnthropologist and Current Anthropology during the period covered. As US-educated archaeologist, he used to publish in those two journals prior to1996. Any manuscript expounding his hypothesis or perspective thatlands on the pages of those two journals will surely enhance the debateson the Austronesian-speaking people during the Neolithic. Theabundance of articles from 2006 to 2010 on genetics and archaeology willsurely heighten the developments and debates on this topic in the comingyears.