Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Journal of Chinese Political Science	8.168
2	European Security	7.959
3	Post-Soviet Affairs	5.914
4	Journal of Contemporary China	4.469
5	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.411
6	Pacific Review	3.351
7	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.336
8	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	3.308
9	East European Politics	3.242
10	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	2.989
11	Middle East Critique	2.620
12	Journal of Asian Public Policy	2.610
13	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.599
14	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	2.593
15	Critical Asian Studies	2.534
16	Eurasian Geography and Economics	2.504
17	Asian Survey	2.486
18	Turkish Studies	2.410
19	African Affairs	2.396
20	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.203
21	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	2.087
22	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2.038
-	Latin American Politics and Society	2.038
24	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.910
25	China Quarterly	1.878
26	Africa Spectrum	1.783
27	Central Asian Survey	1.751
28	Pacific Affairs	1.713
29	East European Politics and Societies	1.700
30	Mediterranean Politics	1.687
31	Review of African Political Economy	1.678
32	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.649
33	Modern China	1.632
34	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	1.510
35	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1.439
36	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.427
37	Journal of Palestine Studies	1.296
38	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.261
39	China Information	1.167
40	Social Science Japan Journal	1.106
41	India Review	1.095
42	African Studies	1.051
43	Middle East Policy	1.048
44	Bilig	1.025
45	Korea Observer	1.023
46	European Review	1.010
47	Journal of Southern African Studies	1.009
48	Contemporary South Asia	1.000
49	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.959
50	Asian Studies Review	0.938

51	Modern Asian Studies	0.889
52	Europe-Asia Studies	0.879
53	Latin American Perspectives	0.877
54	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	0.835
55	Pacific Focus	0.805
56	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.800
57	Israel Affairs	0.788
58	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.770
59	China Perspectives	0.735
60	Africa	0.669
61	China Journal	0.641
62	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.624
63	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.535
64	Middle Eastern Studies	0.477
65	Journal of Australian Studies	0.393
66	African and Asian Studies	0.391
67	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.390
68	Modern Italy	0.363
69	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.352
70	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.347
71	Iranian Studies	0.335
72	African Studies Review	0.313
73	Middle East Journal	0.222
74	Contemporary Pacific	0.122
75	London Journal	0.109
76	Journal of Asian Studies	0.108
77	Slavic Review	0.067
78	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.063