Former names
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The Far Eastern Quarterly |
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
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J. Asian Stud. |
Discipline | Asian studies |
Language | English |
Edited by | Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom |
Publication details | |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Asian Studies
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Publication history
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1941-present |
Frequency | Quarterly |
0.742 | |
Indexing | |
ISSN |
0021-9118 (print) 1752-0401 (web) |
LCCN | 43014717 |
OCLC no. | 466937010 |
JSTOR | 00219118 |
Links | |
The Journal of Asian Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Asian Studies, covering Asian studies, ranging from history, the arts, social sciences, to philosophy of East, South, and Southeast Asia. In addition to regular articles, a large section of the journal is devoted to book reviews. The journal was established in 1941 as The Far Eastern Quarterly, changing to its current title in September 1956.
The followiing persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
From 1941 to 1991, the Association for Asian Studies published an annual Bibliography of Asian Studies as a supplement to the journal. Since 1991 the bibliography has only been available by separate subscription.
The entire contents of the journal are available in full-text, searchable electronic databases. All issues except the most recent three years are available on JSTOR; more recent issues on ProQuest or on the website of the publisher, Cambridge University Press.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.742.