Iranian Studies (journal)

Iranian Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering Iranian and Persianate history, literature, and society published quarterly by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies (formerly known as the International Society for Iranian Studies).^[1][2] It was established in 1967 and up to 2021 was published 6 times a year by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Nasrin Rahimieh.

Iranian Studies

Discipline	Iranian studies
Language	English
Edited by	Nasrin Rahimieh
Publication details
History	1967–present
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	0.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Iran. Stud.
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ISSN	0021-0862 (print) 1475-4819 (web)
LCCN	sn85060395
JSTOR	00210862
OCLC no.	1753915
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:

• Ali Banuazizi (1968–1982), founding editor^[3]
• Ervand Abrahamian and Farhad Kazemi (1982–1986)
• Richard W. Bulliet (1987–1989)
• Abbas Amanat (1990–1997)
• Robert D. McChesney (1998–2003)^[4]
• Homa Katouzian (2004–2016)^[5]
• Ali Gheissari (2016–2021)^[6]
• Sussan Siavoshi (2021–2023)^[7]
• Nasrin Rahimieh (2023–present)^[8]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[9]
• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities^[9]
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences^[9]
• Index Islamicus^[10]
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature^[10]
• Linguistic Bibliography^[10]
• Modern Language Association Database^[10]
• ProQuest databases^[10]
• Scopus^[11]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[9]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 0.7.^[12]