A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. A form of citation index is first found in 12th-century Hebrew religious literature. Legal citation indexes are found in the 18th century and were made popular by citators such as Shepard's Citations (1873). In 1961, Eugene Garfield's Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) introduced the first citation index for papers published in academic journals, first the Science Citation Index (SCI), and later the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). American Chemical Society converted its printed Chemical Abstract Service into internet-accessible SciFinder in 2008. The first automated citation indexing was done by CiteSeer in 1997 and was patented. Other sources for such data include Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Elsevier's Scopus, and the National Institutes of Health's iCite.
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers 36,377 titles from 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. It covers three types of sources: book series, journals, and trade journals. Scopus also allows patent searches in a dedicated patent database Lexis-Nexis, albeit with a limited functionality.
The Middle East Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Middle East Institute. It was established in 1947 and covers research on the modern Middle East, including political, economic, and social developments and historical events in North Africa, the Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia. Jacob Passel is the current editor.
Problems of Post-Communism is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economic, political, security, and international developments in post-communist countries. Until 1992 it was known as Problems of Communism and predicted the collapse of the USSR. It was originally published by the United States Information Agency and is now published by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Dmitry P. Gorenburg.
Asian Survey: A Bimonthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs is a bimonthly academic journal of Asian studies published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The journal was established in 1932 as Memorandum , but was renamed Far Eastern Survey in 1935. The journal acquired its current name in 1961. The journal uses double-blind peer review.
Nationalities Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press for the Association for the Study of Nationalities. The editor-in-chief is Harris Mylonas. It publishes articles on nationalism, minorities, and ethnic conflict, with a regional focus on Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, Turkey, and Central Asia. The journal is interdisciplinary, with authors from a variety of backgrounds, including history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and literature. Nationalities Papers started in 1972 and currently publishes 6 issues per year.
The Journal of Contemporary Asia is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering Asian studies. It was established in 1970 and is published 5 times a year by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Kevin Hewison. Previous editors were Malcolm Caldwell, Jonathan Fast, Bruce McFarlane and Peter Limqueco.
State Politics & Policy Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of political science. The journal's editors are Jon Winburn, Conor Dowling, and Tracy Osborn. It was established in 2001 and is currently published by Cambridge University Press in association with the State Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
The Journal of Asian and African Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the fields of Asian and African studies. The journal's editor-in-chief is Nigel C. Gibson. It was established in 1966 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
The Australian Journal of Political Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide range of fields political studies and international relations, including Australian politics, comparative politics, policy studies, political theory and foreign policy. The journal was established in 1966 as Politics and obtained its current name in 1990. It is published by Routledge and is the official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association. The editors-in-chief are Renee Jeffery and Annika Werner.
Julio Cabral Teehankee is a Filipino political scientist. He is Full Professor of Political Science and International Studies at De La Salle University (DLSU) where he served as Chair of the Political Science Department (1994–2007); Chair of the International Studies Department (2008–2013); and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (2013–2017).
Studies in Indian Politics is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal. It covers a wide variety of sub-fields in Indian politics, such as political ideas and thought in India, political institutions and processes, Indian democracy, India in world affairs, public policies, and politics in a comparative perspective particularly with reference to the global south and South Asia. It is published by SAGE Publishing in association with Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
Political Behavior is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media covering political behavior, institutions, processes and policies. The editors-in-chief are Geoffrey Layman and Benjamin Radcliff, both of the University of Notre Dame.
History and Sociology of South Asia is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the social, economic, and political fabric of South Asian societies. It is published by SAGE Publishing in association with the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies and the editor-in-chief is Velayutham Saravanan.
Asian Ethnicity is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in Asia. It was established in 2000 and is published by Routledge. The founding editor-in-chief was Colin Mackerras. He was succeeded by Chih-yu Shih, who in his turn was succeeded by Julie Yu-Wen Chen. Since February 2021, the editors-in-chief are Ian G. Baird(University of Wisconsin-Madison), Matthew W. King, and Debojyoti Das.
Energy Research & Social Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering social science research on energy systems and energy and society, including anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, political science, social policy, sociology, science and technology studies and legal studies. It was established in 2014 and is now among the most highly ranked journals on energy and social sciences. It is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Benjamin K. Sovacool.
Policy & Politics is a quarterly British peer-reviewed academic journal covering public policy and political science. It was established in 1972 and is published by the Policy Press of the University of Bristol. Its mission statement says that it "is committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation."
The Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in the social sciences. It was established in 2010 and is published by the Corvinus University of Budapest. The editor-in-chief is Márton Medgyesi(Corvinus University of Budapest).
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Comparative Studies on Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. It provides a "critical and comparative analyses of the histories, cultural productions, social and gender relations, politics, and economies" of these regions. It is published by the Duke University Press, and since 2012, edited at Columbia University.
The Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs was an Australia-based scholarly journal that ran from 1967 to 2014, dealing with "political, economic, social and cultural aspects of Indonesia and Malaysia." It is indexed in the Bibliography of Asian Studies and included in Informit (database) as well as Scimago and in Scopus.
