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Journal of Asian Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Duke University Press.
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ISSN 0021-9118Verify ISSN ↗1752-0401Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 304 / 1936 | 84th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 391 / 1434 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1941–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of Asian Studies is Q1 in History (rank 304 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 391 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Asian Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.258, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 65.
Journal of Asian Studies is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 0021-9118 and its online ISSN is 1752-0401.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Asian Studies has an h-index of 116 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Asian Studies published 234 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 275. 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.
In its latest 69 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.6%), China (5.8%) and Canada (5.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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