South Asian History and Culture (SAHC) is a multidisciplinary journal that provides an integrated perspective on the field of South Asian studies. The journal brings together research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, and provides scholars with a platform covering, but not restricted to, their particular fields of interest and specialization. Such an approach is critical to the field, for the development of more informed and broader perspectives, and of more overarching theoretical conceptions.
SAHC brings together established areas of study (eg. nationalism, communalism, gender, language and literature) and more recent frameworks (e.g. minority rights, sexuality studies, terrorism). A focus is also to make more mainstream the more recently developed disciplines in the field of South Asian studies, which have to date remained specialized fields, for instance research on film, media, photography, sport, medicine and the environment. To this purpose, we commission special issues to be guest edited.
A significant concern for this journal is to focus across the region known as South Asia, and not simply on India, as most ‘South Asia’ forums inevitably do. We are conscious of this gap in South Asian studies and work to bring into focus more scholarship on and from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other parts of South Asia.
Peer Review Statement
All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, with initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by two independent referees. The same review process applies to commissioned special issues.
Journal metrics
Usage
53K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.9 (2023) Impact Factor
0.6 (2023) 5 year IF
1.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.262 (2023) SNIP
0.191 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
15 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
Academic Editors: Boria Majumdar - University of Central Lancashire, UK Sharmistha Gooptu - South Asia Research Foundation, India
Book Review Editors: Priyanka Basu - British Library and SOAS, South Asia Institute, UK Babli Sinha - Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA
Editorial Co-ordinator: Soma Sinha Sarkar - Kolkata, India
Founding Editor: David Washbrook - University of Cambridge, UK (In Memoriam)
Consultancy Board: Dipesh Chakrabarty - Department of History, University of Chicago, USA Robin Jeffrey - Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and Professor Emeritus, ANU, Canberra, Australia William Mazzarella - Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, USA Ashis Nandy - Center for Developing Societies, New Delhi, India Samita Sen - Centre for Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India Brian Stoddart - former Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
International Editorial Advisory Board: Chandrima Chakraborty - English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Rohit De - Department of History, Yale University Rohan Deb Roy - Department of History, University of Reading, UK Faisal Devji - University of Oxford, UK Assa Doron - Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra, Australia Tanweer Fazal - Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Meghna Guhathakurta - Executive Director, Research Initiatives, Dhaka, Bangladesh Angma Jhala - Department of History, Bentley University, USA Prashant Kidambi - Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK Kedar Kulkarni - FLAME University, Pune, India Karen Leonard - Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA Nalin Mehta - South Asia Research Foundation, India Soumen Mukherjee - Presidency University, India Rosalind O’Hanlon - Professor of Indian History and Culture, University of Oxford Vijay Pereira - NEOMA Business School, Reims Campus, France Aswin Punathambekar - Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, USA Arvind Rajagopal - Media Studies, NYU, USA Panchali Ray - Independent Researcher, New Delhi, India Michael Roberts - University of Adelaide, Australia Pritam Singh - Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK Nira Wickramasinghe - Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
Updated 2 November 2022
Abstracting and indexing
South Asian History and Culture is abstracted in:
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
EBSCOhost (Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index and TOC Premier)
Open access
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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)
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