The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences, [1] International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Political Science Abstracts, Scopus, [2] the Social Sciences Citation Index, [1] and Sociological Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 5.477, ranking it first out of 81 journals in the category "Anthropology" [3] and first out of 55 journals in the category "Planning and Development". [4]

History

The journal was an outgrowth of a 1972 University of London seminar on peasantries. It was established in 1973 with Terence J. Byres (1973–2000), Charles Curwen (1973–1984), and Teodor Shanin (1973–1975) as founding editors-in-chief. [5] [6] [7] Other past editors of the journal have been Henry Bernstein (1985–2000) and Tom Brass (1990–1998, 2000–2008). The current editor is Saturnino Borras, Jr. [8] [6]

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