Caucasus Survey

Aims & Scope

Caucasus Survey is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal, publishing triannually and concerned with humanities research into the contemporary Caucasus – the independent states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and the North Caucasian republics and regions of the Russian Federation.

Also covered are the de facto entities of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorny Karabakh; the autonomous republic of Kalmykia and southern regions of Russia neighbouring the Caucasus; Crimea; as well as selected issues relating to the Cossacks, the Meskhetian Turks, Nogais and Caucasian diasporas in Turkey, the Middle East and the Euro-Atlantic space.

Caucasus Survey aims to advance an area studies tradition in the humanities and social sciences about and from the Caucasus, connecting this tradition with core disciplinary concerns in the fields of modern history, political science, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, political economy, human geography, conflict and peace studies, and sociology.

Research covering Caucasus-related dimensions of Middle Eastern and European politics, society, culture and history also fall within the remit of the journal.

Caucasus Survey publishes original research articles, review articles, policy discussions on strategic issues, interviews, biographical sketches, memoirs, archive documents, research notes, recent fieldwork narratives and book reviews.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16488

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	33

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.304

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	14

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• 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.

• Recognising politics in unrecognised states: 20 years of enquiry into the<i>de facto</i>states of the South Caucasus

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Laurence

• Russia’s policy in the “frozen conflicts” of the post-Soviet space: from ethno-politics to geopolitics

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Andrei A., Peter, Svetlana M., Ivan A.

• Clerics, weightlifters, and politicians: Ramzan Kadyrov’s Instagram as an official project of Chechen memory and identity production

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Karena

• The foreign policy options of a small unrecognised state: the case of Abkhazia

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Thomas

• Twenty years after the Nagorny Karabakh ceasefire: an opportunity to move towards more inclusive conflict resolution

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Sabine

• Introduction: Informality and power in the South Caucasus

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Abel, Lela

• Between Caucasus and caliphate: the splintering of the North Caucasus insurgency

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Mark

• Western academic discourse on the post-Soviet de facto state phenomenon

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Galina M.

• The road to the Second Karabakh War: the role of ethno-centric narratives in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Philip, Sergey

• North Caucasian foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq: assessing the threat of returnees to the Russian Federation

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Jean-François

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