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Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

SAGE Publications Ltd · Germany · Est. 1999

ISSN1868-4882

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.835

H-Indexi

SNIPi

2.296

Total Worksi

646

Total Citationsi

6,653

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.20

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Area Studies; International Relations; Political Science; Political Science and International Relations; Sociology and Political Science.

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1999

Annual Volume~ 27 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications646

Publisher OrgGerman Institute for Global and Area Studies

OA Since2008

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1868-4882

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

✅

Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

333

2019

580

2020

720

2021

235

2022

184

2023

143

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Political Science and International RelationsQ1

Sociology and Political ScienceQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Area StudiesInternational RelationsPolitical Science

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International Relations

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

Is Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs?

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.20.

Is Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs?