Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The journal features a special focus on the regional social science topics in Asia: political science, economics and management, law, education, sociology, cultural anthropology and history. In addition to the social science, the journal covers the entire spectrum of research on environmental science, urban studies, geography or other subjects related with the Asian development.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors' identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by three experts; two reviewers from outside and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission.

 

Publication Frequency

Semiannual, published in April and October

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Index/List/Archive

CrossRef
CLOCKSS
Journalseek
Google Scholar
LOCKSS
Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
PKP Open Archives Harvester
RePEc/EconPapers
SHERPA/RoMEO
The Standard Periodical Directory
Worldcat

 

 

Journal Metrics

1. h-index (December 2020): 6

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.

h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

2. i10-index (December 2020): 5

i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

3. h5-index (December 2020): N/A
h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2015-2019 have at least h citations each.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics

4. h5-median (December 2020): N/A

h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics