Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta Vostokovedenie i Afrikanistika

Aims & Scope

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University.

Asian and African Studies is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal committed to foster original, independent, accurate and comprehensive professional research in Asian and African Studies.

The Journal accepts scholarly articles, book reviews and reports on various academic activities in the field.

The main objective of the Journal is to create an open intellectual forum for leading experts and specialist researchers in the areas of Asian and African studies both in Russia and abroad.

The Journal pursues the following priorities: • furtherance of cutting edge research in the Asian and African studies; • identifying and investigating insufficiently explored areas of scholarship; • forming novelty approaches to methodology; • introducing scholarly use of rare textual sources; • interdisciplinary studies noted for their scholarly freshness, salience and ingenuity.

The Journal encompasses the following spectrum of subject domains and topical areas: • re-evaluation of relations between Russia and Asia/ Africa; • languages of Asia and Africa; • Asia and Africa: history and source studies; • Asia and Africa: literature and literary theory; • Asia and Africa: geocultural spaces and cultural codes; • foreign policy, economics and international relations of Asia and Africa.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.185

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	22123

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
• Google Scholar

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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.

• Features of the Language Game in Liu Zhenyun’s Prose on the Example of the Novel “I am not Pan Jinlian”

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Alexander V.

• Artificial Intelligence in China: The Current State of Industry and Development Trends

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Polina E.

• King Yima — Jam — Jamshid: From Mythological Hero to Literary Image

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Marina L.

• Afropolitanism: alternative of cosmopolitanism or transformation of identity?

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Tatiana M.

• Prophet Sulaymān in Classical Persian Poetry: Semantics and Structure of the Image

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Anna V.

• Socio-cultural Activities of the Russian Imperial Consulate in Yingkou (China) during the Period of Temporary Russian Administration (1900-1904)

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Victoria G.

• African Countries in the Epoch of Information Globalization: New Challenges in the New Age

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Konstantin A., Galina M., Natalia A.

• The Middle East: Seeking a New Security Architecture in a Changing World

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Igor V., Maria U., Elena M.

• “Unity in Language, Thoughts, Deeds”: The Ideas of Ismail Gasprinskii and Conceptualization of Turkic Nationalism in Turkey

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Nadezhda Ye., Andrei S.

• Boshanlu censers in China’s incense culture: Symbols and social functions

  Citation: 2

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