Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Latin American Research Review	7.657
2	European Security	6.881
3	Journal of Chinese Political Science	6.510
4	Post-Soviet Affairs	5.816
5	Journal of Contemporary China	4.283
6	East European Politics	4.236
7	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.466
8	Pacific Review	3.340
9	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	3.168
10	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	2.845
11	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	2.717
12	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.623
13	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.592
14	Journal of Asian Public Policy	2.567
15	African Affairs	2.551
16	Critical Asian Studies	2.292
17	Turkish Studies	2.258
18	Middle East Critique	2.219
19	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	2.203
20	Asian Survey	2.168
21	Central Asian Survey	2.096
22	Eurasian Geography and Economics	2.082
23	Pacific Affairs	2.052
24	Review of African Political Economy	2.005
25	Journal of Eastern African Studies	1.960
26	Africa Spectrum	1.776
27	China Quarterly	1.769
28	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.726
29	Latin American Politics and Society	1.714
30	Modern China	1.633
31	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.605
32	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	1.542
33	Mediterranean Politics	1.460
34	East European Politics and Societies	1.449
35	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1.371
36	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.366
37	African Studies	1.234
38	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.156
39	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	1.115
40	Middle East Policy	1.081
41	China Information	1.064
42	Social Science Japan Journal	1.056
43	India Review	1.050
44	Journal of Palestine Studies	1.045
45	Bilig	1.008
46	Europe-Asia Studies	0.951
47	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.946
48	China Perspectives	0.945
49	Contemporary South Asia	0.895
50	European Review	0.862

51	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.858
52	Korea Observer	0.841
53	Modern Asian Studies	0.831
54	Latin American Perspectives	0.820
55	Asian Studies Review	0.814
56	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.704
-	Israel Affairs	0.704
58	Pacific Focus	0.701
59	China Journal	0.668
60	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.667
61	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	0.663
62	Africa	0.589
63	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.542
64	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.502
65	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.414
66	Middle Eastern Studies	0.407
67	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.399
68	Modern Italy	0.356
69	Journal of Australian Studies	0.354
70	African Studies Review	0.345
71	Contemporary Pacific	0.341
72	African and Asian Studies	0.315
73	Iranian Studies	0.275
74	Middle East Journal	0.250
75	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.224
76	Journal of Asian Studies	0.133
77	Slavic Review	0.092
78	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.061
79	London Journal	0.053