Minikomi

Minikomi is published by Akademische Arbeitskreis Japan – Österreichische Japan-Gesellschaft für Wissenschaft und Kunst (AAJ) [Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Art]. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Japanese History and Culture, Cinema History and Criticism and Indian and Buddhist Studies, together about 58% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies is an international, interdisciplinary and open access journal that covers a variety of topics (e.g. culture, society, history, economy, geography, politics) from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics should be related to Japan, but are not restricted to the geographical region, when spatial and political borders are crossed or transcended. MINIKOMI publishes special issues (with a given topic) and open issues (open for all submissions). The journal invites both established as well as young scholars to present research results and theoretical and methodical discussions, to report about ongoing research projects or present field studies, to conduct interviews with experts in the field, to review relevant books and to publish conference reports, translations and artistic contributions. Contributions can be submitted in German, English or Japanese. KeywordsJapan; Japanese studies; area studies; interdisciplinarity; social sciences; cultural studies; open access Review ProcessMINIKOMI uses editorial review for all contributions and additional peer review for academic articles and student’s papers. Sections[ Artikel | Article | 論文 ][ künstlerischer Beitrag | Artistic Contripution | 芸術品 ][ Übersetzung | Translation | 翻訳 ][ Gespräch | Interview | 対談 ] [ Konferenzbericht | Conference Report | 会議報告書 ][ Rezension | Review | 批評 ][ zuihitsu | Essay | 随筆 ] Do you want to submit?Next IssuesSubmissionsDo you want to know more about MINIKOMI?About the JournalEditorial TeamContact

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Editor-in-chief der NummerPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

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

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Impact

h-index

2OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

1OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 12 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer review, Unspecified 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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Akademische Arbeitskreis Japan – Österreichische Japan-Gesellschaft für Wissenschaft und Kunst (AAJ) [Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Art]

Country or region

Austria

Language

English, Japanese, German

ISSN

2706-7424

Electronic ISSN

2706-7432

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• 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