title: Journal of Contemporary Asia
text: # Journal of Contemporary Asia
  
  The Journal of Contemporary Asia is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering Asian studies. It was established in 1970 and is published 5 times a year by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Kevin Hewison (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Previous editors were Malcolm Caldwell, Jonathan Fast, Bruce McFarlane and Peter Limqueco.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * CAB International
  * Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  * EBSCO databases
  * International Political Science Abstracts
  * ProQuest databases
  * Scopus
  * Social Sciences Citation Index
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.882.
  
  