Journal of Asian American Studies
Last updated ISSN 1096-8598
Journal of Asian American Studies is published by Johns Hopkins University Press 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 Journal of Asian American Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Race, History, and American Society
- Japanese History and Culture
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Philippine History and Culture
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1096-8598, 1097-2129 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,291 |
| Publishing since | 1998 |
| Journal website | www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american |
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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