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The Journal of Asian Studies

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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
  
J. Asian Stud.

Language
  
English

Discipline
  
Edited by
  
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Former names
  
The Far Eastern Quarterly

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.

Contents

Editors-in-chief

The followiing persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

  • Donald Shively (1956-1959)
  • Roger F. Hackett (1959-1962, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  • David D. Buck (1990-1994, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
  • Anand A. Yang (1995-2000, University of Utah)
  • Ann Waltner (2001-2004, University of Minnesota)
  • Kenneth M. George (2005-2008, University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  • Jeffrey Wasserstrom (2008-present, University of California-Irvine)
  • Access

    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.

    Abstracting and indexing

    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.

    References

    The Journal of Asian Studies Wikipedia


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