Pacific Affairs
Last updated ISSN 0030-851X
Pacific Affairs is published by University of British Columbia 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 Pacific Affairs concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Japanese History and Culture
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Asian Studies and History
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Key facts
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0030-851X, 1715-3379 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 17,770 |
| Publishing since | 1928 |
| Journal website | www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/ |
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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