Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	East European Politics	5.140
2	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	4.220
3	Journal of Chinese Political Science	3.850
4	Post-Soviet Affairs	3.661
5	Eurasian Geography and Economics	3.616
6	European Security	3.600
7	Critical Asian Studies	3.579
8	Journal of Asian Public Policy	3.438
9	Journal of Contemporary China	3.237
10	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.175
11	Latin American Research Review	3.123
12	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.121
13	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.878
14	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2.815
15	Africa Spectrum	2.636
16	African Affairs	2.529
17	Pacific Review	2.425
18	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	2.155
19	Review of African Political Economy	2.080
20	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	2.055
21	Journal of Contemporary Asia	1.865
22	Mediterranean Politics	1.694
23	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.692
24	Middle East Critique	1.681
25	African Studies	1.679
26	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	1.598
27	Central Asian Survey	1.529
28	Turkish Studies	1.442
29	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.433
30	Latin American Politics and Society	1.429
31	East European Politics and Societies	1.418
32	Pacific Affairs	1.416
33	Asian Survey	1.403
34	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	1.385
35	India Review	1.333
36	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.300
37	Modern China	1.230
38	European Review	1.077
39	Africa	1.068
40	China Information	1.012
41	Latin American Perspectives	1.011
42	Europe-Asia Studies	0.996
43	Asian Studies Review	0.980
44	Journal of Modern African Studies	0.967
45	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	0.963
46	Contemporary South Asia	0.958
47	China Quarterly	0.927
48	Contemporary Southeast Asia	0.923
49	Modern Asian Studies	0.917
50	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.896

51	Bilig	0.845
52	Pacific Focus	0.843
53	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.820
54	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.774
55	China Perspectives	0.770
56	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.696
57	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.634
58	Social Science Japan Journal	0.629
59	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.563
60	China Journal	0.538
61	African Studies Review	0.537
62	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.526
63	Contemporary Pacific	0.521
64	Asian Journal of Social Science	0.519
65	Israel Affairs	0.514
66	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.483
67	Journal of Australian Studies	0.459
68	Middle East Policy	0.413
69	Middle Eastern Studies	0.374
70	Korea Observer	0.353
71	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.348
72	African and Asian Studies	0.271
73	Modern Italy	0.245
74	Journal of Asian Studies	0.231
75	Iranian Studies	0.230
76	Middle East Journal	0.215
77	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.182
78	Slavic Review	0.155
79	London Journal	0.122
80	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.029