Contemporary Southeast Asia
Last updated ISSN 1793-284X
Contemporary Southeast Asia is published by ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Contemporary Southeast Asia concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Asian Studies and History
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
- International Development and Aid
- Global trade and economics
- Cambodian History and Society
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Maritime Security and History
Key facts
| Publisher | ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1793-284X, 0129-797X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,577 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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