The Journal of Asian Studies

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] Its acceptance rate is approximately 6%.^[2] Each issue circulates over 8,200 copies, reaching a readership across the academic community and beyond.^[3]

The Journal of Asian Studies

Discipline	Asian studies
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
Impact factor	0.917 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Asian Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0021-9118 (print) 1752-0401 (web)
LCCN	43014717
JSTOR	00219118
OCLC no.	466937010
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

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]

Editors-in-chief

The following are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

• Cyrus Peake (1941–)
• Earl H. Pritchard
• Donald Shively (1956–1959)^[6]
• Roger F. Hackett (1959–1962, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)^[7]
• 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 (2008–2018, University of California-Irvine)
• Vinayak Chaturvedi (2018–2021), University of California-Irvine)
• Joseph Alter (2021–present) University of Pittsburgh^[8]

Bibliography of Asian Studies

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.

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 2017 impact factor of 0.917.^[9]