Japan Forum, the leading European journal in the multidisciplinary field of Japanese Studies, publishes original research in subject areas ranging from archaeology, language, literature, philosophy and culture to history, economics, politics, international relations and law.
Submissions from younger researchers as well as from established scholars are welcome, as are submissions which cross disciplinary boundaries or do not otherwise match the subject areas listed above. All submissions are independently refereed.
Peer Review Statement
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous double-anonymized refereeing by two referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
72K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
0.6 (2023) 5 year IF
1.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.024 (2023) SNIP
0.376 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
213 days avg. from submission to first
decision
87% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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.
Reviews Editors: Eriko Tomizawa-Kay - University of East Anglia, UK ([email protected]) Christopher Hayes - Teeside University, UK ([email protected])
Managing Editor: Alana Stone - University of East Anglia, UK ([email protected]) International Editorial Board: Christopher Aldous - University of Winchester, UK James Babb - University of Newcastle, UK Paul Barclay - Lafayette College, USA Emily Barrass Chapman - SOAS University of London, UK Tom Blackwood - Tokyo International University, Japan Verena Blechinger-Talcott - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany W.J. Boot - Leiden University, Netherlands Michael Bourdaghs - University of Chicago, USA John Breen - International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan Peter Cave - University of Manchester, UK David Chapman - The University of Queensland, Australia Harald Conrad - University of Duesseldorf, Germany Hugo Dobson - University of Sheffield, UK Stephen Dodd - SOAS University of London, UK Reinhard Drifte - University of Newcastle, UK Linda Flores - University of Oxford, UK Penelope Francks - University of Leeds, UK Sabine Fruhstuck - UC Santa Barbara, USA Bart Gaens - The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland Aaron Gerow - Yale University, USA Chris Gerteis - The University of Tokyo, Japan Tom Gill - Meiji Gakuin University, Japan Carol Gluck - Columbia University, USA Roger Goodman - University of Oxford, UK Chris Goto-Jones - University of Victoria, Canada Ian Gow - Sino-British College, Shanghai Ehud Harari - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Harry Harootunian - New York University, USA Irena Hayter - University of Leeds, UK Joy Hendry - Oxford Brookes University, UK Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Glenn Hook - University of Sheffield, UK Christopher W. Hughes - University of Warwick, UK Janet Hunter - LSE, UK Rachael Hutchinson - University of Delaware, USA Hamish Ion - RMC, Canada Griseldis Kirsch - SOAS University of London, UK Koichi Iwabuchi - Monash University, Australia Axel Klein - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Thomas LaMarre - McGill University, Canada Sebastien Lechevalier - EHESS, France David Leheny - Waseda University, Japan Michael Lucken - INALCO, France Vera Mackie - University of Wollongong, Australia Helen Macnaughtan - SOAS University of London, UK Dr William Marotti - UCLA, USA Peter Matanle - University of Sheffield, UK Paul Midford - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Bill Mihalopoulos - University of Central Lancashire, UK Tessa Morris-Suzuki - ANU, Australia Koichi Nakano - Sophia University, Japan Nakamura Naofumi - University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science, Japan Ian J. Neary - University of Oxford, UK Christopher T Nelson – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Yoshitaka Okada - Sophia University, Japan Rajyashree Pandey - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Helen Parker - University of Edinburgh, UK Atsuko Sakaki - University of Toronto, Canada Naoki Sakai - Cornell University, USA Philip Seaton - Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Ben-Ami Shillony - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Naoko Shimazu - NUS-Yale College, Singapore Arthur Stockwin - University of Oxford, UK John Swenson-Wright - University of Cambridge, UK Jan Sýkora - Charles University, Czech Republic John W Treat - Yale University, USA Prof. Toshio Watanabe - Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UK Mark Williams - University of Leeds, UK Dr Vicky Young - University of Cambridge, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Japan Forum is abstracted in the following services:
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Open access
Japan Forum is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
Japan Forum is the official journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), an association of scholars and researchers dedicated to researching and teaching about Japan. New members are always welcome and will join a thriving and friendly community with a diverse range of interests, but all united in seeking to expand the frontiers of knowledge about Japan and the Japanese.
To discover more about the association, including the benefits of membership and how to join, please visit the BAJS website.
Print ISSN:
0955-5803
Online ISSN:
1469-932X
5 issues per year
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