Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	East European Politics	4.717
2	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	4.361
3	Journal of Chinese Political Science	4.293
4	European Security	3.899
5	Post-Soviet Affairs	3.891
6	Eurasian Geography and Economics	3.855
7	Journal of Asian Public Policy	3.798
8	Latin American Research Review	3.518
9	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.505
10	Journal of Contemporary China	3.438
11	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.226
12	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.994
13	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2.986
14	Critical Asian Studies	2.977
15	Africa Spectrum	2.832
16	Pacific Review	2.567
17	African Affairs	2.517
18	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	2.434
19	Review of African Political Economy	2.169
20	African Studies	1.899
21	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	1.826
22	Mediterranean Politics	1.806
23	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.777
24	Middle East Critique	1.756
25	Turkish Studies	1.735
26	Journal of Contemporary Asia	1.726
27	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	1.697
28	Central Asian Survey	1.635
29	Pacific Affairs	1.625
30	Asian Survey	1.601
31	Latin American Politics and Society	1.557
32	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.511
33	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.480
34	East European Politics and Societies	1.464
35	India Review	1.419
36	Modern China	1.234
37	China Information	1.176
38	European Review	1.109
-	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	1.109
40	Europe-Asia Studies	1.102
41	Africa	1.078
42	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1.077
43	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	1.069
44	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.063
45	China Quarterly	1.030
46	Latin American Perspectives	0.994
47	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.964
48	China Perspectives	0.944
49	Asian Studies Review	0.939
50	Contemporary South Asia	0.869

51	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.868
52	Bilig	0.842
53	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.771
54	Pacific Focus	0.765
55	Modern Asian Studies	0.756
56	Social Science Japan Journal	0.725
57	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.716
58	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.689
59	Asian Journal of Social Science	0.660
60	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.643
61	China Journal	0.607
62	Contemporary Pacific	0.586
63	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.578
64	African Studies Review	0.544
65	Middle East Policy	0.508
66	Israel Affairs	0.504
67	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.474
68	Journal of Australian Studies	0.472
69	Middle Eastern Studies	0.410
70	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.383
71	Korea Observer	0.365
72	Modern Italy	0.256
73	Journal of Asian Studies	0.246
74	African and Asian Studies	0.236
75	Iranian Studies	0.224
76	Middle East Journal	0.190
77	Slavic Review	0.171
78	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.169
79	London Journal	0.123
80	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.027