About this journal
Aims and scope
In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest.
Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In broad terms the geographical region of concern for the journal is bounded by Lake Baikal to the north, Japan to the east, Java to the south and the Caspian Sea to the west.
Asian Ethnicity is particularly interested in the following themes:
I) Unmooring ethnicity from the nation-state.
We encourage cross border studies that focus on comparative and multi-sited cultures, communities which are divided by national boundaries in South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. The focus on the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountains are foundational to understandings of ethnicity in China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Pakistan which share boundaries with many neighbouring countries, as does the Annamite Range between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
II) Critical scholarly work that connects ethnicity and ecological environments.
National historiographies have urged us to look at ethnicity and ethnic identity questions only from land based national state formations. We encourage the examination of maritime and riverine societies, trade networks, entry ports and their inter-braiding with the hinterland we can explore the transregional connections that shape littoral ethnicities across islands, deltas, wetlands, archipelagos and port cities.
III) Transdisciplinary and inter Asia analytics, concepts and tools.
We encourage more emphasis on transregional research that presents Asian societies as a web of communities that interact with one another through globalised commodity-chain markets, electronic (visual and virtual) media. Ethnicity and ethic relation have become central to define individual and group identities. These are also linked with Indigeneity and Indigenous rights movements bound up with global extractive capitalism and debates on climate justice movements.
Peer Review Statement
All submitted manuscripts, review papers (including contributions to the Ethnic Voices section) and research articles are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double-anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
STAR
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 72K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 2.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.305 (2023) SNIP
- 0.544 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 10 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 59 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 9 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 24% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Co-Editors:
Ian Baird ( [email protected]) - Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Debojyoti Das ( [email protected]) - Department of Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK
Executive Committee:
Matthew King - Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside, USA
Nathan Badenoch - Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University, USA
Yosef D.M. Djakababa - Faculty of Social and Political Science, School of Government and Global Affairs, Pelita Harapan University, Indonesia
Ritambhara Hebbar - Tata Institute of Social Science, India
Martin Lavička - Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Bijayani Mishra - University of Delhi, India
Uranchimeg Tsultem - Indiana University, USA
Book Review Editors:
Asian Ethnicity in South Asia: Sharad K. Soni - Centre for Inner Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Asian Ethnicity in East Asia: Steven Quach - University California, Riverside, USA
Film Review Editor:
Brian Hu - San Diego State University, USA
Editorial Advisory Board:
Ishtiaq Ahmed - Stockholm University, Sweden
Shirin Akiner - University of London, UK
James Anderson - The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Elena Barabantseva - University of Manchester, UK
Ildikó Bellér-Hann - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Julie Yu-Wen Chen - University of Helsinki, Finland and Palacky University, Czech Republic
Arnab Roy Choudhury - HSE University, Moscow
Bhavna Dave - School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
Eva Gerharz - Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Swarupa Gupta - NMML - Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, India
Stevan Harrell - University of Washington, USA
Gerhard Hoffstaedter - University of Queensland, Australia
Juha Janhunen - University of Helsinki, Finland
Timo Kaartinen - University of Helsinki, Finland
Mustapha Kamal Pasha - Aberystwyth University, UK
Bruce Kapferer - James Cook University of Northern Queensland, Australia
František Kratochvíl - Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Prasit Leepreecha - Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Suryadinata Leo - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
R. William Liddle - Ohio State University, USA
Dušan Lužný - Palacky University, Czech Republic
Erik de Maaker - Leiden University, Netherlands
Ron J. May - Australian National University, Australia
Oona Paredes - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Barry Sautman - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Louisa Schein - Rutgers University, USA
Amita Shastri - San Francisco State University, USA
Chih-yu Shih - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Nasir Uddin - Chittagong University, Bangladesh
Patricia Uberoi - Institute of Chinese Studies, India
Bulag Uradyn - University of Cambridge, UK
Michael Weiner - University of San Diego, USA
Xiaowei Zang - University of Sheffield, UK
[updated 2nd July 2024]
Abstracting and indexing
Asian Ethnicity is abstracted and indexed in:
- CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- EBSCOhost
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- International Political Science Abstracts
- SCOPUS
- Clarivate Analytics’ Emerging Sources Citation Index
Open access
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