The Journal of Asian Studies is the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, publishing peer-reviewed academic scholarship in the field of Asian studies.[1] With an acceptance rate of approximately 6%, it upholds rigorous standards in the evaluation and publication of scholarly research.[2] Each issue of the Journal of Asian Studies circulates over 8,200 copies, reaching a readership across the academic community and beyond.[3]
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| Discipline | Asian studies |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Joseph Alter |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | The Far Eastern Quarterly |
| History | 1941–present |
| Publisher | Duke University Press on behalf of the Association for Asian Studies |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 0.917 (2017) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Asian Stud. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
| ISSN | 0021-9118 (print) 1752-0401 (web) |
| LCCN | 43014717 |
| JSTOR | 00219118 |
| OCLC no. | 466937010 |
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The journal was established in 1941 as The Far Eastern Quarterly, changing to its current title in September 1956. Before 2023, the journal was published by Cambridge University Press.[4] Published by Duke University Press since 2023, under the guidance of its editorial board, it presents empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature, the social sciences, and cultural studies. In addition to research, current interest, and state-of-the-field articles, a large section of the journal is devoted to book reviews.[5]
The following are or 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 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 2017 impact factor of 0.917.[9]