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Fast Track Journal Title List

More than hundred "fast track" journal titles were identified by the members of the BAS Advisory Committee as the most important journals within the field of Asian studies that should be given priority in indexing. The BAS editors are seeking to keep the indexing of these titles as current as possible. Other titles are gradually being added. The "fast track" titles thus identified are listed below.

Fast Track titles (as of February 2007):

  • Acta Asiatica (Tokyo)
  • Archipel (Paris)
  • Archives of Asian Art (New York)
  • Artibus Asiae (Ascona, Switzerland)
  • Asia Major (Taipei)
  • Asian Folklore Studies (Nagoya, Japan)
  • Asian Perspectives (Honolulu)
  • Asian Philosophy (Abingdon, Oxon, England)
  • Asian Survey (Berkeley, CA)
  • Bengal Past and Present (Calcutta)
  • Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Leiden)
  • Borneo Research Bulletin (Williamsburg, VA)
  • Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris)
  • Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (Canberra)
  • Bulletin of the American Historical Collection (Manila)
  • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (Cambridge, England; New York)
  • Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale (Paris)
  • Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie (Paris; Kyoto)
  • China Information (Thousand Oaks, CA; London)
  • China Journal (Canberra)
  • China Quarterly (Cambridge, England; New York)
  • Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (Madison, WI)
  • CHINOPERL Papers (Ann Arbor, MI)
  • Contemporary Southeast Asia (Singapore)
  • Contributions to Indian Sociology (Delhi)
  • Critical Asian Studies (Basingstoke, Hampshire, England)
  • Crossroads (DeKalb, IL)
  • Early China (Berkeley, CA)
  • East Asian History (Canberra)
  • Etudes chinoises (Paris)
  • Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Cambridge, MA)
  • Himal Southasian (Lalitpur, Nepal)
  • India International Centre Quarterly (New Delhi)
  • Indian Anthropologist (Delhi)
  • Indian Economic and Social History Review (Delhi)
  • Indian Historical Review (New Delhi)
  • Indian Journal of Gender Studies (New Delhi)
  • Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta)
  • Indo-Iranian Journal (The Hague)
  • Indonesia (Ithaca, NY)
  • Indonesia Circle (London)
  • Japan Echo (Tokyo)
  • Japan Forum (Basingstoke, Hampshire, England; Philadelphia, PA)
  • Japan Review: Bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies = Nichibunken (Kyoto)
  • Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (Nagoya)
  • Japanese Language and Literature (Boulder, CO)
  • Journal of American-East Asian Relations (Chicago)
  • Journal of Asian and African Studies (Willowdale, Ontario, Canada)
  • Journal of Asian Studies (Ann Arbor, MI)
  • Journal of Bangladesh Studies (Bellevue, WA)
  • Journal of Bhutan Studies (Thimphu)
  • Journal of Chinese Linguistics (Berkeley, CA)
  • Journal of Chinese Religions (Bloomington, IN)
  • Journal of Indian Philosophy (Dordrecht, The Netherlands)
  • Journal of Japanese Studies (Seattle)
  • Journal of Oriental Studies (Hong Kong)
  • Journal of Song-Yuan Studies (Berkeley, CA)
  • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore)
  • Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras)
  • Journal of the American Oriental Society (New Haven, CT)
  • Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh: Humanities (Dhaka)
  • Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (Honolulu)
  • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Leiden)
  • Journal of the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute (Bombay)
  • Journal of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society (Kuala Lumpur)
  • Journal of the Oriental Institute (Baroda)
  • Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society (Karachi)
  • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London)
  • Journal of the Siam Society (Bangkok)
  • Korea Journal (Seoul)
  • Korean Studies (Honolulu)
  • Late Imperial China (Baltimore, MD)
  • Man In India (Ranchi)
  • Manushi (Delhi)
  • Ming Studies (Minneapolis, MN)
  • Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge, England)
  • Modern China (Thousand Oaks, CA; London)
  • Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Columbus, OH)
  • Mongolian Studies (Bloomington, IN)
  • Monumenta Nipponica (Tokyo)
  • Monumenta Serica (Sankt Augustin, Germany)
  • Nepali Journal of Contemporary Studies (Kathmandu)
  • Oriens Extremus (Wiesbaden, Germany)
  • Pacific Affairs (Vancouver)
  • Pakistan Economic and Social Review (Lahore)
  • Péninsule (Paris)
  • Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society (Cebu City)
  • Philippine Sociological Review (Manila)
  • Philippine Studies (Quezon City)
  • Philosophy East and West (Honolulu)
  • Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Durham, NC)
  • Puratattva: Bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society (Varanasi)
  • Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore)
  • Quarterly Review of Historical Studies (Calcutta)
  • Singapore Economic Review (Singapore)
  • Sojourn: Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Singapore)
  • South Asia Research (London)
  • South Asian Popular Culture (London)
  • South East Asia Research (London)
  • Southeast Asian Affairs (Singapore)
  • Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science (Singapore)
  • Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (Colombo)
  • T'ang Studies (Boulder, CO)
  • Tenggara (Kuala Lumpur)
  • Tibetan Review (New Delhi)
  • T'oung Pao (Leiden)
  • Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (Tokyo)
  • Twentieth Century China (Columbus, OH)
  • Vietnamese Studies (Hanoi)
  • Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens und Archiv für indische Philosophie (Leiden)

See also:

About the BAS • History of the BAS • Scope Notes • Subject Classification of the BAS • Organization of BAS Entries • Acknowledgments