Area Studies: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Chinese Political Science	12
2	European Security	7
3	Economic Development and Cultural Change	4
-	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	4
-	Pacific Review	4
-	Asian Survey	4
-	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	4
8	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	3
-	Critical Asian Studies	3
-	Journal of Asian Public Policy	3
-	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	3
-	African Affairs	3
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	3
-	Journal of Asian and African Studies	3
-	Journal of Contemporary Asia	3
-	Journal of Eastern African Studies	3
17	Modern China	2
-	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	2
-	African Studies	2
-	Africa Spectrum	2
-	Bilig	2
-	Central Asian Survey	2
-	East European Politics and Societies	2
-	Korea Observer	2
-	Latin American Politics and Society	2
-	Mediterranean Politics	2
-	Review of African Political Economy	2
-	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	2
-	Turkish Studies	2
30	Africa	1
-	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	1
-	China Information	1
-	China Quarterly	1
-	Contemporary South Asia	1
-	European Review	1
-	India Review	1
-	Israel Affairs	1
-	Journal of Palestine Studies	1
-	Journal of Southern African Studies	1
-	Latin American Perspectives	1
-	Middle Eastern Studies	1
-	Middle East Policy	1
-	Social Science Japan Journal	1
-	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1
-	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	1
-	Journal of Baltic Studies	1
-	Journal of Modern African Studies	1
-	Modern Asian Studies	1
-	Pacific Focus	1
-	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	1

51	African and Asian Studies	0
-	African Studies Review	0
-	Asian Studies Review	0
-	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0
-	Europe-Asia Studies	0
-	Journal of Australian Studies	0
-	Journal of Latin American Studies	0
-	London Journal	0
-	Pacific Affairs	0
-	Slavic Review	0
-	China Journal	0
-	Contemporary Pacific	0
-	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0
-	Journal of Asian Studies	0
-	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0
-	Middle East Journal	0
-	Modern Italy	0
-	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0