Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Journal of Chinese Political Science	5.442
2	European Security	4.818
3	Latin American Research Review	4.233
4	Post-Soviet Affairs	3.737
5	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.375
6	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	3.370
7	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.235
8	Journal of Contemporary China	3.208
9	East European Politics	3.021
10	Journal of Asian Public Policy	2.845
11	Pacific Review	2.654
12	Critical Asian Studies	2.590
13	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.552
14	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	2.224
15	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.135
-	African Affairs	2.135
17	Africa Spectrum	1.951
18	Turkish Studies	1.920
19	Pacific Affairs	1.889
20	Eurasian Geography and Economics	1.865
21	Central Asian Survey	1.861
22	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	1.762
23	Asian Survey	1.752
24	Review of African Political Economy	1.734
25	African Studies	1.691
26	Journal of Eastern African Studies	1.681
27	Mediterranean Politics	1.621
28	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.613
29	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	1.523
30	East European Politics and Societies	1.490
31	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.368
32	Latin American Politics and Society	1.321
33	China Information	1.267
34	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.254
35	China Quarterly	1.233
36	Modern China	1.228
37	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.192
38	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	1.161
39	Europe-Asia Studies	1.112
40	China Perspectives	1.083
41	Middle East Critique	0.986
42	Africa	0.926
43	Latin American Perspectives	0.922
44	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.911
45	Asian Studies Review	0.899
46	Contemporary Southeast Asia	0.891
47	Bilig	0.872
48	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.836
-	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.836
50	Social Science Japan Journal	0.819

51	India Review	0.804
52	Modern Asian Studies	0.762
53	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.757
54	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.704
55	Pacific Focus	0.667
56	European Review	0.665
57	Middle East Policy	0.650
58	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.629
59	Asian Journal of Social Science	0.600
60	Israel Affairs	0.568
61	Contemporary South Asia	0.541
62	China Journal	0.532
63	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.531
64	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.493
65	Middle Eastern Studies	0.456
66	African Studies Review	0.451
67	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.435
68	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.364
69	Contemporary Pacific	0.318
70	Journal of Australian Studies	0.316
71	Iranian Studies	0.288
72	Korea Observer	0.286
73	Modern Italy	0.282
74	African and Asian Studies	0.275
75	Middle East Journal	0.232
76	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.201
77	Journal of Asian Studies	0.188
78	Slavic Review	0.187
79	London Journal	0.152
80	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.031