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Asian Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0306-8374Verify ISSN ↗1477-1500Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 381 / 1162 | 67th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 287 / 745 | 61st | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 439 / 876 | 49th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 456 / 755 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Asian Affairs is Q2 in Law (rank 381 of 1162), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 287 of 745) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 439 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Asian Affairs is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.408, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Asian Affairs is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0306-8374 and its online ISSN is 1477-1500.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Affairs has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #575 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Asian Affairs published 160 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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