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	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.382
12	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	2.333
13	Critical Asian Studies	2.221
14	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.096
15	African Affairs	1.916
16	Africa Spectrum	1.889
17	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	1.882
18	Central Asian Survey	1.781
19	Asian Survey	1.769
20	African Studies	1.733
21	Pacific Affairs	1.677
22	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	1.666
23	Review of African Political Economy	1.613
24	Journal of Eastern African Studies	1.598
25	Turkish Studies	1.584
26	Eurasian Geography and Economics	1.570
27	Mediterranean Politics	1.529
28	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.527
29	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	1.502
30	China Information	1.223
31	Latin American Politics and Society	1.199
32	China Quarterly	1.164
33	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.161
34	Modern China	1.154
35	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.104
36	East European Politics and Societies	1.036
37	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.026
38	Africa	0.982
39	Middle East Critique	0.966
40	Europe-Asia Studies	0.950
41	China Perspectives	0.917
42	Contemporary Southeast Asia	0.907
43	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	0.898
44	Latin American Perspectives	0.888
45	Asian Studies Review	0.840
46	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.822
47	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.809
48	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.785
49	India Review	0.782
50	Social Science Japan Journal	0.745

51	Bilig	0.702
52	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.671
53	Pacific Focus	0.664
54	Modern Asian Studies	0.650
55	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.648
56	European Review	0.632
57	Middle East Policy	0.631
58	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.612
59	China Journal	0.557
60	Contemporary South Asia	0.530
61	Israel Affairs	0.512
62	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.499
63	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.488
64	Middle Eastern Studies	0.445
65	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.418
66	African Studies Review	0.405
67	Journal of Australian Studies	0.320
68	Contemporary Pacific	0.318
69	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.300
70	Iranian Studies	0.293
71	Modern Italy	0.273
72	Korea Observer	0.268
73	Middle East Journal	0.232
74	African and Asian Studies	0.229
75	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.183
76	Slavic Review	0.182
77	Journal of Asian Studies	0.178
78	London Journal	0.105
79	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.024