Journal profile · Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
ISSN 1868-1034 · eISSN 1868-4882 · SAGE · United Kingdom
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs: CAS Zone 2 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.71; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 108 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 4.6% (journal website); 28 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is published by SAGE and is in Zone 2 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Asian Studies and History, Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography and Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, together about 45.5% 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)
The Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, is a peer reviewed, open access journal published by the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies (IAS) in Hamburg. The journal focuses on current political developments in Southeast Asia. We accept submissions with a focus on international relations and the social, economic, legal, etc. dimensions of policies and politics. The topics covered should not only be oriented towards specialists in Southeast Asian affairs, but should also be of relevance to readers with a practical interest in the region.Articles to be published should be written in English and submitted exclusively to this publication. The Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is devoted to the transfer of scholarly insights to a wide audience. The topics covered should therefore not only be orientated towards specialists in Southeast Asian affairs, but should also be of relevance to readers with a practical interest in the region. The journal's articles examine political, social and economic developments in all 11 countries of the region (Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam), as well as intra-regional (ASEAN) and transregional relations (ASEAN-China, ASEAN-US, etc.). There is also a book review section which covers new publications on Southeast Asia.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Asian Studies and HistorySocial Sciences18.6%
- Asian Geopolitics and EthnographySocial Sciences13.5%
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical StudiesSocial Sciences13.5%
- Cambodian History and SocietySocial Sciences6.1%
- Socioeconomic Development in AsiaSocial Sciences5.5%
- International Development and AidSocial Sciences4.3%
- Vietnamese History and Culture StudiesSocial Sciences3.9%
- Peacebuilding and International SecuritySocial Sciences3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Area Studies | Zone 2 |
| Minor | International Relations | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Area Studies | Zone 1 |
| Minor | International Relations | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Area Studies | Zone 2 |
| Minor | International Relations | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.71LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.84LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.34LetPub ·
- h-index
- 41OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 203OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.7OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 28LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 662 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | 23 | 5 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 58 |
| 2024 | 28 | 28 | 150 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 192 |
| 2022 | 17 | 17 | 241 |
| 2021 | 29 | 29 | 727 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
108 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports about 8 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 4.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 108 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted5
- research articleThe journal accepts research articles and review articles. The word limit for articles is between 7,000-10,000 words. The word limit of submissions includes the…Length not stated
- research articlesThe journal accepts research articles and review articles.Length not stated
- reviewThe journal accepts research articles and review articles. The word limit for articles is between 7,000-10,000 words. The word limit of submissions includes the…Length not stated
- review articleThe journal accepts research articles and review articles. The word limit for articles is between 7,000-10,000 words. The word limit of submissions includes the…Length not stated
- review articlesThe journal accepts research articles and review articles.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Standard license: Creative Commons (CC BY). Model summary
The standard license for the journal is Creative Commons (CC BY), and it is recommended this is the licence which is selected.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
No article processing charges (APC). Model summary
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. There are currently no article processing charges (APC) to publish in this journal. The journal is financially supported by the GIGA Institute for As…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review identity transparency: Double anonymized. Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1868-1034
- Electronic ISSN
- 1868-4882
- Society / sponsor
- Hamburg University Press between 2009 and 2018 remain as archived
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
What CAS zone is Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is in Zone 2 of Sociology, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Area Studies / International Relations / Political Science. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.71; CiteScore 4.9, h-index 41.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs?
The publisher reports about 108 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 4.6%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is indexed in SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .