Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Latin American Research Review	6.740
2	European Security	6.303
3	Journal of Chinese Political Science	5.763
4	Post-Soviet Affairs	5.152
5	Journal of Contemporary China	3.748
6	East European Politics	3.743
7	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.490
8	Pacific Review	3.250
9	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	3.073
10	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	2.739
11	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	2.660
12	African Affairs	2.536
13	Journal of Asian Public Policy	2.422
14	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	2.306
15	Journal of Contemporary Asia	2.231
16	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2.200
17	Central Asian Survey	2.163
18	Turkish Studies	2.116
19	Asian Survey	1.958
20	Critical Asian Studies	1.944
21	Africa Spectrum	1.896
22	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	1.873
23	Pacific Affairs	1.844
24	Review of African Political Economy	1.829
25	Middle East Critique	1.774
26	Eurasian Geography and Economics	1.732
27	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.695
28	China Quarterly	1.654
29	Modern China	1.510
30	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.482
31	Latin American Politics and Society	1.457
32	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1.435
33	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.368
34	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	1.311
35	China Information	1.282
36	Journal of Modern African Studies	1.242
37	East European Politics and Societies	1.231
38	Mediterranean Politics	1.219
39	African Studies	1.186
40	India Review	1.047
41	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.938
42	Europe-Asia Studies	0.931
43	China Perspectives	0.917
44	Social Science Japan Journal	0.908
45	Bilig	0.891
46	Middle East Policy	0.883
47	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.859
48	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.791
49	Contemporary South Asia	0.771
50	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.756

51	European Review	0.726
52	Asian Studies Review	0.718
-	Modern Asian Studies	0.718
54	Pacific Focus	0.713
55	Latin American Perspectives	0.708
56	Korea Observer	0.667
57	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.632
58	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.630
59	Israel Affairs	0.625
60	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	0.579
61	China Journal	0.538
62	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.523
63	Africa	0.494
64	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.437
65	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.406
66	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.383
67	African Studies Review	0.344
68	Middle Eastern Studies	0.341
69	Journal of Australian Studies	0.333
70	Iranian Studies	0.320
71	Modern Italy	0.287
72	African and Asian Studies	0.284
73	Contemporary Pacific	0.279
74	Middle East Journal	0.226
75	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.169
76	Journal of Asian Studies	0.096
77	Slavic Review	0.077
78	London Journal	0.067
79	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.029