Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	European Security	4.745
2	Latin American Research Review	4.250
3	Journal of Chinese Political Science	4.244
4	Post-Soviet Affairs	3.810
5	Journal of Contemporary China	3.199
6	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.186
7	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.103
8	East European Politics	3.007
9	Journal of Asian Public Policy	2.619
10	Pacific Review	2.516
11	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	2.333
12	Critical Asian Studies	2.221
13	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.096
14	African Affairs	1.916
15	Africa Spectrum	1.889
16	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	1.882
17	Central Asian Survey	1.781
18	Asian Survey	1.769
19	African Studies	1.733
20	Pacific Affairs	1.677
21	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	1.666
22	Review of African Political Economy	1.613
23	Journal of Eastern African Studies	1.598
24	Turkish Studies	1.584
25	Eurasian Geography and Economics	1.570
26	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.527
27	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	1.502
28	China Information	1.223
29	Latin American Politics and Society	1.199
30	China Quarterly	1.164
31	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.161
32	Modern China	1.154
33	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.104
34	East European Politics and Societies	1.036
35	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.026
36	Africa	0.982
37	Middle East Critique	0.966
38	Europe-Asia Studies	0.950
39	China Perspectives	0.917
40	Contemporary Southeast Asia	0.907
41	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	0.898
42	Latin American Perspectives	0.888
43	Asian Studies Review	0.840
44	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.822
45	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.809
46	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.785
47	India Review	0.782
48	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.671
49	Modern Asian Studies	0.650
50	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.648

51	European Review	0.632
52	Middle East Policy	0.631
53	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.612
54	Contemporary South Asia	0.530
55	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.488
56	Middle Eastern Studies	0.445
57	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.418
58	African Studies Review	0.405
59	Contemporary Pacific	0.318
60	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.300
61	Iranian Studies	0.293
62	Korea Observer	0.268
63	Middle East Journal	0.232
64	African and Asian Studies	0.229
65	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.183
66	Slavic Review	0.182
67	Journal of Asian Studies	0.178
68	London Journal	0.105