Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	5.019
2	Journal of Chinese Political Science	4.770
3	European Security	4.688
4	East European Politics	4.607
5	Latin American Research Review	3.862
6	Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs	3.817
7	Eurasian Geography and Economics	3.778
8	Post-Soviet Affairs	3.733
9	Journal of Contemporary China	3.435
10	Journal of Asian Public Policy	3.364
11	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.145
12	Africa Spectrum	2.899
13	Critical Asian Studies	2.705
14	Pacific Review	2.684
15	African Affairs	2.545
16	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	2.404
17	Journal of Eastern African Studies	2.356
18	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	2.212
19	Mediterranean Politics	1.843
20	Journal of Contemporary Asia	1.818
21	Turkish Studies	1.793
22	Journal of Contemporary European Studies	1.757
23	African Studies	1.716
24	Asian Survey	1.708
25	Pacific Affairs	1.677
26	Central Asian Survey	1.672
27	Middle East Critique	1.647
28	Latin American Politics and Society	1.616
29	Review of African Political Economy	1.611
30	Journal of Asian and African Studies	1.538
31	East European Politics and Societies	1.448
32	Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity	1.410
33	Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies	1.342
34	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	1.338
35	Modern China	1.266
36	China Information	1.211
37	European Review	1.139
38	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	1.134
39	China Quarterly	1.121
40	Europe-Asia Studies	1.098
41	Contemporary Southeast Asia	1.096
42	Africa	1.065
43	Asian Studies Review	1.032
44	Latin American Perspectives	1.031
45	Journal of Modern African Studies	0.990
46	China Perspectives	0.955
47	India Review	0.894
48	Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies	0.883
49	Journal of Southern African Studies	0.846
50	Social Science Japan Journal	0.819

51	South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies	0.814
52	Bilig	0.763
53	Bulletin of Latin American Research	0.756
54	Modern Asian Studies	0.747
55	Contemporary South Asia	0.737
56	Journal of Palestine Studies	0.724
57	Asian Journal of Social Science	0.700
58	Pacific Focus	0.676
59	IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies	0.643
60	Israel Affairs	0.598
61	Journal of Baltic Studies	0.593
62	Middle East Policy	0.585
63	African Studies Review	0.560
64	China Journal	0.558
65	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies	0.555
66	Middle Eastern Studies	0.479
67	International Journal of Middle East Studies	0.463
68	Journal of Latin American Studies	0.425
69	Journal of Australian Studies	0.369
70	Journal of Asian Studies	0.287
71	Modern Italy	0.274
72	Korea Observer	0.263
73	Iranian Studies	0.257
74	African and Asian Studies	0.253
75	Contemporary Pacific	0.225
76	Middle East Journal	0.223
77	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies	0.189
78	Slavic Review	0.170
79	London Journal	0.152
80	NWIG-New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	0.027