Pacific Affairs

Aims & Scope

Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focussing on important current political, economic, and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.349

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	46

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15172

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	99

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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 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.

• Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers, the Organization of Transnational Mobility and the Changing Political Economy in Asia

  Citation: 292

  Authors: Johan, Biao, Brenda S.A.

• Labour Recruitment, Circuits of Capital and Gendered Mobility: Reconceptualizing the Indonesian Migration Industry

  Citation: 144

  Authors: Johan

• The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug and his Grandmother: Informal Brokers and Transnational Migration from Indonesia

  Citation: 94

  Authors: Johan

• Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Rita, Mike

• Land Rights in Cambodia: How Neopatrimonial Politics Restricts Land Policy Reform

  Citation: 78

  Authors: Kheang, Sokbunthoeun

• The Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Floods in Bangkok: The Creation of Uneven Vulnerabilities

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Danny

• A History of Christian Missions in China

  Citation: 66

  Authors: K. S.

• Fighting Illiberalism with Illiberalism: Islamist Populism and Democratic Deconsolidation in Indonesia

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Marcus

• How the Box Became Black: Brokers and the Creation of the Free Migrant

  Citation: 63

  Authors: Adam

• Predatory Princes and Princely Peddlers: The State and International Labour Migration Intermediaries in China

  Citation: 63

  Authors: Biao

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