Central Asian Survey

Aims & Scope

Central Asian Survey is the only established peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal in the world concerned with the history, politics, cultures, religions and economies of the Central Asian and Caucasian regions.

These include primarily the republics of former Soviet Central Asia and the South and North Caucasus.

Also covered are Chinese Xinjiang, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey in relation to their links/policies vis-à-vis Central Asia.

The central aim of Central Asian Survey is to reflect and promote advances in area-based scholarship in the social sciences and humanities and enhance understanding of processes of local and regional change that make Central Asia and the Caucasus an area of significant contemporary interest.

Central Asian Survey publishes original research articles, review essays, book reviews and author-critic fora, and welcomes proposals from Guest Editors for special issues or special sections.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	1.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11780

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	228

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.490

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	40

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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 Earth and Planetary Sciences 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.

• Virtual regionalism, regional structures and regime security in Central Asia

  Citation: 121

  Authors: Roy

• ‘Thoroughly reforming them towards a healthy heart attitude’: China’s political re-education campaign in Xinjiang

  Citation: 105

  Authors: Adrian

• The politics of gender and the Soviet paradox: neither colonized, nor modern?

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Deniz

• Securitization, insecurity and conflict in contemporary Xinjiang: has PRC counter-terrorism evolved into state terror?

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Joanne

• Neopatrimonialism, interest groups and patronage networks: the impasses of the governance system in Uzbekistan

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Alisher

• Staying put? Towards a relational politics of mobility at a time of migration

  Citation: 58

  Authors: Madeleine

• ‘Bilingual’ education and discontent in Xinjiang

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Eric T.

• Colonization with Chinese characteristics: politics of (in)security in Xinjiang and Tibet

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Dibyesh

• The New Great Game and the new great gamers: Disciples of Kipling and Mackinder

  Citation: 53

  Authors: MATTHEW

• Migration past and present: changing patterns in Kyrgyzstan

  Citation: 49

  Authors: Matthias, Lira

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