Shima
Last updated ISSN 1834-6049
Shima is published by Shima Publishing in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Shima concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Japanese History and Culture
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Travel Writing and Literature
Key facts
| Publisher | Shima Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1834-6049, 1834-6057 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 344 |
| Publishing since | 2008 |
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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