List of Journals

The category ‘Area Studies’ comprises 67 journals. The choice of journals is based on Web of Science 's SSCI (Social Science Citations Index).

Note:

• The column Rank refers to the ranking accorded to the journal by Web of Science based on the 2-year Journal Impact Factor 2017.

• Journals listed in pale letters do not deposit scholarly metadata at CrossRef. As a consequence, OOIR cannot track their latest papers.

• The logo denotes Open Access journals.

Rank	Journal	Since	Publisher
1	Post-Soviet Affairs	1985	Taylor & Francis
2	African Affairs	1901	Oxford University Press
3	China Quarterly	1960	Cambridge University Press
4	China Journal	1979	University of Chicago Press
5	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	1965	Taylor & Francis
6	Pacific Review	1988	Taylor & Francis
7	Journal of Contemporary Asia	1970	Taylor & Francis
8	Journal of Contemporary China	1992	Taylor & Francis
9	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	1959	Wiley
10	Economic Development and Cultural Change	1952	University of Chicago Press
11	Latin American Politics and Society	1959	Cambridge University Press
12	Mediterranean Politics	1996	Taylor & Francis
13	Pacific Affairs	1928	University of British Columbia
15	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	2001	Taylor & Francis
16	Review of African Political Economy	1974	Taylor & Francis
17	African Studies Review	1958	Cambridge University Press
18	Journal of Asian Studies	1941	Cambridge University Press
19	International Journal of Middle East Studies	1970	Cambridge University Press
20	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1979	Project MUSE
21	Critical Asian Studies	1968	Taylor & Francis
21	Journal of Modern African Studies	1963	Cambridge University Press
23	Bulletin of Latin American Research	1981	Wiley
24	Europe-Asia Studies	1949	Taylor & Francis
25	East European Politics and Societies	1986	SAGE
26	Slavic Review	1941	Cambridge University Press
27	Journal of Latin American Studies	1961	Cambridge University Press
28	Modern China	1975	SAGE
29	Turkish Studies	2000	Taylor & Francis
30	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2007	Taylor & Francis
31	China Information	1986	SAGE
32	China Review	2001	Chinese University Press
33	Journal of Japanese Studies	1974	Project MUSE
34	Journal of Southern African Studies	1975	Taylor & Francis
35	Contemporary Pacific	1989	University of Hawaii Press
36	Africa	1928	Cambridge University Press
37	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	1974	Taylor & Francis
38	Asian Studies Review	1977	Taylor & Francis
39	Latin American Perspectives	1974	SAGE
40	Middle East Journal	1947	Project MUSE
41	Middle East Policy	1992	Wiley
42	Latin American Research Review	1965	University of Pittsburgh Pres
43	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1965	SAGE
44	Social Science Japan Journal	1998	Oxford University Press
45	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1999	Taylor & Francis
46	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	1960	Cambridge University Press
47	Modern Asian Studies	1967	Cambridge University Press
48	European Review	1993	Cambridge University Press
49	Iranian Studies	1967	Taylor & Francis
50	Social Dynamics	1975	Taylor & Francis
51	Africa Spectrum	1966	GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
52	Asian Survey	1961	University of Chicago Press
53	Journal of Baltic Studies	1970	Taylor & Francis
54	IDS Bulletin	1968	Institute of Development Studies
55	Asian Journal of Social Science	1973	Brill
56	Journal of Australian Studies	1977	Taylor & Francis
57	Middle Eastern Studies	1964	Taylor & Francis
58	Pacific Focus	1986	Wiley
59	Journal of Palestine Studies	1971	University of Chicago Press
59	German Studies Review	1978	Project MUSE
61	China: An International Journal	2003	Project MUSE
62	African and Asian Studies	2002	Brill
63	Israel Affairs	1994	Taylor & Francis
64	Korea Observer	1968	IKS
65	London Journal	1975	Taylor & Francis
66	Bilig	1996	Ahmet Yesevi Universitesi
67	New West Indian Guide	1919	Brill
68	African Studies	1921	Taylor & Francis