Asian Ethnicity

Asian Ethnicity is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are South Asian Studies and Conflicts, Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies and China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations, together about 28.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In broad terms the geographical region of concern for the journal is bounded by Lake Baikal to the north, Japan to the east, Java to the south and the Caspian Sea to the west. Asian Ethnicity is particularly interested in the following themes: I) Unmooring ethnicity from the nation-state. We encourage cross border studies that focus on comparative and multi-sited cultures, communities which are divided by national boundaries in South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. The focus on the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountains are foundational to understandings of ethnicity in China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Pakistan which share boundaries with many neighbouring countries, as does the Annamite Range between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. II) Critical scholarly work that connects ethnicity and ecological environments. National historiographies have urged us to look at ethnicity and ethnic identity questions only from land based national state formations. We encourage the examination of maritime and riverine societies, trade networks, entry ports and their inter-braiding with the hinterland we can explore the transregional connections that shape littoral ethnicities across islands, deltas, wetlands, archipelagos and port cities. III) Transdisciplinary and inter Asia analytics, concepts and tools. We encourage more emphasis on transregional research that presents Asian societies as a web of communities that interact with one another through globalised commodity-chain markets, electronic (visual and virtual) media. Ethnicity and ethic relation have become central to define individual and group identities. These are also linked with Indigeneity and Indigenous rights movements bound up with global extractive capitalism and debates on climate justice movemen

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PHYSIOLOGY

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 13, United Kingdom 7, India 5, Australia 4, Czechia 4 (48 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

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Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, EBSCOhost, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Political Science AbstractsPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.31Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.08LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.08Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

45OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

268OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.89OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

14.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

52LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

84,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

15%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

60 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

66 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

7 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1463-1369

Electronic ISSN

1469-2953

Latest issue on the website

Volume 27, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

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