Afghanistan

Aims & Scope

Afghanistan Studies is where Near Eastern Studies, Central Asian Studies, and South Asian Studies overlap.

The journal, therefore, does not focus solely on geographic Afghanistan, but publishes articles that straddle these three subject areas where the pre-modern histories and cultures of Afghanistan connect.

The journal aims to focus the interests of scholars and students on the region’s rich past through articles from a wide range of fields in the humanities.

Afghanistan has been aptly described as ‘the places in between’, and its histories and cultures reflect a geographical mass stretching from the shores of the Caspian to China and India.

It thus has an exceptionally rich architectural and art-historical legacy.

In the past, it has been the centre of several major cultures/empires - the Graeco-Bactrian, Kushan, Gandharan, Ghaznavid, Timurid - as well as a major component of many others: the Bronze Age of both Central Asia and Indo-Iran, Achaemenid, Mauryan, Scythian, Parthian, Sasanian, Hun, Hindu, Abbasid, Seljuk.

In more recent times, it has been the focus of great power rivalry: British, Russian, Soviet, US.

It thus forms a microcosm of much of the history and civilisation of Western, Central and South Asia for the past four thousand years or so.

This journal reflects these diverse and complex cultural and historical mixes, and showcases Afghanistan’s exceptional cultural diversity.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.218

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20148

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	13

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• From Persianate pasts to Aryan antiquity. Transnationalism and transformation in Afghan intellectual history, c.1880–1940

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Nile

• Le monastère de Qol-e-Tut à la lumière des fouilles archéologiques

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Zafar

• What is the “Afghan Genizah”? A short guide to the collection of the Afghan Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel, with the edition of two documents

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Ofir

• Contextualizing Mes Aynak

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Deborah

• The 2019 Afghan Presidential Election: An Assessment of Problematic Processes and Results

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Thomas

• Early Iron Age culture of Sistan, Afghanistan

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Mitchell, William B.

• A closer look at the Tillya-tepe folding crown and attached pendants

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Sara

• The hydrological networks of the Balkh Oasis after the arrival of Islam: a landscape archaeological perspective

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Paul

• How Alexander entered India With a note on Ortospana (the ancient name of Ghazni?)

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Claude, Frantz

• “Pen and tongue” untied: Lillias Hamilton's uncensored view of Ê¿Abd al-Rahman Khan

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Namatullah

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