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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Chinese Political Science	7
2	European Security	6
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	6
4	Latin American Research Review	5
5	Economic Development and Cultural Change	4
-	Pacific Review	4
-	Journal of Contemporary China	4
8	Journal of Contemporary Asia	3
-	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	3
-	Journal of Eastern African Studies	3
-	African Affairs	3
-	Asian Survey	3
-	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	3
-	Central Asian Survey	3
-	Journal of Asian Public Policy	3
-	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	3
18	Journal of Asian and African Studies	2
-	Modern China	2
-	Pacific Affairs	2
-	Review of African Political Economy	2
-	Turkish Studies	2
-	Africa Spectrum	2
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	2
-	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	2
-	Critical Asian Studies	2
27	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	1
-	India Review	1
-	Journal of Modern African Studies	1
-	Korea Observer	1
-	Latin American Politics and Society	1
-	Middle East Policy	1
-	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1
-	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	1
-	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	1
-	African Studies	1
-	Bilig	1
-	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1
-	East European Politics and Societies	1
-	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	1
-	Israel Affairs	1
-	Journal of Southern African Studies	1
-	Latin American Perspectives	1
-	Mediterranean Politics	1
-	Modern Asian Studies	1
-	Pacific Focus	1
-	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	1
-	China Information	1
-	China Quarterly	1
50	European Review	0

-	Europe-Asia Studies	0
-	Iranian Studies	0
-	Journal of Asian Studies	0
-	Journal of Baltic Studies	0
-	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0
-	London Journal	0
-	Middle Eastern Studies	0
-	China Journal	0
-	Contemporary Pacific	0
-	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0
-	Journal of Australian Studies	0
-	Journal of Latin American Studies	0
-	Journal of Palestine Studies	0
-	Middle East Journal	0
-	Modern Italy	0
-	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0
-	Slavic Review	0
-	Social Science Japan Journal	0
-	Africa	0
-	African and Asian Studies	0
-	African Studies Review	0
-	Asian Studies Review	0
-	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0
-	Contemporary South Asia	0