Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	East European Politics	5.263
2	Critical Asian Studies	4.008
3	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	3.945
4	Journal of Chinese Political Science	3.761
5	Post-Soviet Affairs	3.715
6	Eurasian Geography and Economics	3.635
7	European Security	3.518
8	Journal of Asian Public Policy	3.423
9	Latin American Research Review	3.100
10	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.021
11	Journal of Contemporary China	3.015
12	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.000
13	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.857
14	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2.835
15	Africa Spectrum	2.515
16	African Affairs	2.457
17	Pacific Review	2.374
18	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	2.113
19	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	2.079
20	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.070
21	Review of African Political Economy	2.061
22	Middle East Critique	1.701
23	Mediterranean Politics	1.659
24	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.655
25	African Studies	1.619
26	Central Asian Survey	1.529
27	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	1.524
28	Asian Survey	1.429
29	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.428
30	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	1.417
31	Pacific Affairs	1.408
32	Latin American Politics and Society	1.369
33	East European Politics and Societies	1.356
34	Turkish Studies	1.320
35	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.250
36	India Review	1.243
37	Modern China	1.224
38	Asian Studies Review	1.073
39	China Information	1.060
40	European Review	1.053
41	Contemporary South Asia	1.024
42	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	1.018
43	Africa	1.016
44	Europe-Asia Studies	0.977
45	Latin American Perspectives	0.975
46	Journal of Modern African Studies	0.960
47	Modern Asian Studies	0.923
48	Contemporary Southeast Asia	0.906
49	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.877
50	China Quarterly	0.858

51	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.834
52	China Perspectives	0.832
53	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.803
-	Bilig	0.803
55	Pacific Focus	0.784
56	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.718
57	Social Science Japan Journal	0.636
58	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.628
59	African Studies Review	0.543
60	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.542
61	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.523
62	China Journal	0.522
63	Contemporary Pacific	0.521
64	Israel Affairs	0.505
65	Asian Journal of Social Science	0.494
66	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.482
67	Journal of Australian Studies	0.447
68	Korea Observer	0.402
69	Middle Eastern Studies	0.400
70	Middle East Policy	0.391
71	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.354
72	Modern Italy	0.261
73	African and Asian Studies	0.259
74	Journal of Asian Studies	0.251
75	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.250
76	Iranian Studies	0.218
77	Middle East Journal	0.215
78	Slavic Review	0.150
79	London Journal	0.149
80	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.031