Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Journal of Chinese Political Science	8.200
2	European Security	7.755
3	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	3.626
4	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.572
5	Pacific Review	3.542
6	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.253
7	East European Politics	3.201
8	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	3.082
9	Critical Asian Studies	2.766
10	Middle East Critique	2.750
11	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.725
12	Journal of Asian Public Policy	2.684
13	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	2.630
14	Eurasian Geography and Economics	2.617
15	Asian Survey	2.580
16	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	2.310
17	Turkish Studies	2.292
18	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.287
19	African Affairs	2.286
20	Latin American Politics and Society	2.167
21	Africa Spectrum	2.092
22	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2.036
23	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.961
24	China Quarterly	1.831
25	Mediterranean Politics	1.809
26	Modern China	1.792
27	Review of African Political Economy	1.786
28	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1.711
29	Central Asian Survey	1.689
30	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.687
31	East European Politics and Societies	1.633
32	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	1.600
33	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.420
34	Journal of Palestine Studies	1.356
35	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.328
36	China Information	1.280
37	African Studies	1.160
38	Middle East Policy	1.158
39	Bilig	1.125
40	India Review	1.120
41	Korea Observer	1.101
42	European Review	1.098
43	Journal of Southern African Studies	1.046
44	Contemporary South Asia	1.036
45	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	1.020
46	Asian Studies Review	0.985
47	Modern Asian Studies	0.984
48	Latin American Perspectives	0.918
49	Europe-Asia Studies	0.917
50	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	0.905

51	Social Science Japan Journal	0.871
52	Israel Affairs	0.856
53	Pacific Focus	0.845
54	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.798
55	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.747
56	Africa	0.724
-	China Perspectives	0.724
58	China Journal	0.667
59	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.658
60	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.583
61	Middle Eastern Studies	0.512
62	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.450
63	African and Asian Studies	0.427
64	Journal of Australian Studies	0.371
65	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.368
66	Modern Italy	0.339
67	African Studies Review	0.309
68	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.297
69	Pacific Affairs	0.293
70	Middle East Journal	0.229
71	Contemporary Pacific	0.133
72	London Journal	0.104
73	Journal of Asian Studies	0.098
74	Slavic Review	0.076
75	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.070