AIS August 2011
Tiered Journals and Publishers in Political Science/International Studies and Asian Studies
The following lists have been developed by the Australian Political Science Association and the Asian Studies Association of Australia. They have been chosen because of the nature of their compilation (as part of a national-level benchmarking exercise in Australia) and because they cover most journals and publishers that are present in an area studies discipline such as Asian and International Studies. However, in choosing to adopt these lists as guides, AIS recognises that they may be incomplete for its needs in terms of the journals and publishers covered. For staff members whose research is guided by disciplines of sociology, anthropology, history, and cultural studies, or whose outputs are strongly interdisciplinary in nature and may not appear in the Political Science or Asian Studies rankings that have been selected, DPAC will conduct assessments based on impact factors determined through alternate benchmarking mechanisms, such as European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), available at http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/erih-european-reference-index-for-the-humaniti es/erih-foreword.html.
APSA Journal Rankings
Journal Name Tier Ranking Body
American Journal of Political Science A* APSA American Political Science Review A* APSA British Journal of Political Science A* APSA China Journal A* APSA Comparative Politics A* APSA European Journal of International Relations A* APSA European Journal of Political Research A* APSA History of Political Thought A* APSA International Organization A* APSA International Security A* APSA Journal of Conflict Resolution A* APSA Political Analysis A* APSA Political Studies A* APSA Political Theory A* APSA Public Administration A* APSA
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Public Administration Review A* APSA Public Opinion Quarterly A* APSA World Politics A* APSA Administration and Society A APSA Annals A APSA Annual Review of Political Science A APSA Asian Survey A APSA Australian Journal of International Affairs * A APSA Australian Journal of Political Science* A APSA China Quarterly A APSA Comparative Political Studies A APSA Conflict Management and Peace Research A APSA Conflict Resolution Quarterly A APSA Cooperation and Conflict A APSA Democratization A APSA Electoral Studies A APSA Ethics and International Affairs A APSA Ethnicities A APSA Foreign Affairs A APSA Governance A APSA Government and Opposition A APSA Human Rights Quarterly A APSA International Affairs A APSA International Political Science Review A APSA International Politics A APSA International Relations of Asia Pacific A APSA International Studies Quarterly A APSA Journal of Common Market Studies A APSA Journal of Contemporary Asia A APSA Journal of Development Studies A APSA Journal of European Public Policy A APSA Journal of European Public Policy A APSA Journal of Peace Research A APSA Journal of Political Philosophy A APSA Journal of Politics A APSA Journal of Public Administration Theory and A APSA
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Research Journal of South Asian Studies A APSA Journal of the History of Ideas A APSA Journal of Theoretical Politics A APSA Journal of Women, Politics and Policy A APSA Legislative Studies Quarterly A APSA Marine Policy A APSA Millennium A APSA New Left Review A APSA New Political Economy A APSA Pacific Affairs A APSA Pacific Review A APSA Philosophy and Public Affairs A APSA Policy and Politics A APSA Political Communication A APSA Political Geography A APSA Political Science Quarterly A APSA Politics, Philosophy and Economics A APSA Presidential Studies Quarterly A APSA Public Choice A APSA Publius - The Journal of Federalism A APSA Review of International Political Economy A APSA Review of International Studies A APSA Review of Politics A APSA Studies in Comp Int Development A APSA Survival A APSA Theory and Society A APSA West European Politics A APSA Acta Politica B APSA Alternatives B APSA American Politics Quarterly B APSA American Review of Public Administration B APSA Arena Journal B APSA Asian Journal of Political Science B APSA Biosecurity B APSA Biosecurity and Bioterrorism B APSA
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British Journal of Politics and International Relations B APSA British Politics B APSA Business and Politics B APSA Cambridge Review of Internat Affairs B APSA Citizenship Studies B APSA Commonwealth and Comparative Politics B APSA Communist and Post-Communist Studies B APSA Comparative European Politics B APSA Comparative International Development B APSA Constitutional Political Economy B APSA Contemporary Political Theory B APSA Contemporary Politics B APSA Contemporary Security Policy B APSA Contemporary South Asia B APSA Contemporary South East Asia Research B APSA Environmental Politics B APSA European Union Politics B APSA Europe-Asia Studies B APSA Foreign Policy B APSA Gender and Politics B APSA German Politics B APSA Global Environmental Politics B APSA Global Governance B APSA Human Rights Quarterly B APSA International Journal B APSA International Feminist Journal of Politics B APSA International Relations B APSA Journal of Australian Studies B APSA Journal of Conflict Studies B APSA Journal of East Asian Affairs B APSA Journal of Policy Analysis and Management B APSA Journal of Political Ideologies B APSA Journal of Public Policy B APSA Journal of Strategic Studies B APSA Local Government Studies B APSA
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National Identities B APSA Nationalism & Ethnic Politics B APSA Nations and Nationalism B APSA New Political Economy B APSA Parliamentary Affairs B APSA Party Politics B APSA Patterns of Prejudice B APSA Perspectives on Politics B APSA Policy and Society B APSA Policy Sciences B APSA Policy Studies Journal B APSA Political Behavior B APSA Political Psychology B APSA Political Quarterly B APSA Political Research Quarterly B APSA Political Science B APSA Politics and Society B APSA Polity B APSA Post-Soviet Affairs B APSA Problems of Post-Communism B APSA Rationality and Society B APSA Review of Political Economy B APSA SAIS Review B APSA Security Dialogue B APSA Studies in Comparative International Development B APSA Third World Quarterly B APSA Washington Quarterly B APSA Armed Forces and Society C APSA Asia - Pacific Review C APSA Asia Affairs: An American Review C APSA Asia Europe Journal C APSA Asia Pacific Journal of Public Admin C APSA Asian Perspective C APSA Central Asian Survey C APSA China Information C APSA
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China Report: a journal of East Asian Studies C APSA China Review (HK) C APSA China Studies C APSA Chinese Journal of International Politics C APSA City and Community C APSA Critical Asian Studies C APSA European Foreign Affairs Review C APSA European Integration C APSA European Journal of Political theory C APSA European Review C APSA European Union Politics C APSA
Foreign Policy Analysis C APSA Global Change, Peace and Security C APSA Global Development Studies C APSA Global Environmental Change C APSA International Peacekeeping C APSA International Relations C APSA International Review of Administration Science C APSA International Studies Perspectives C APSA Issues and Studies C APSA Japanese Journal of Political Science C APSA Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics C APSA Journal of Conflict, Security & Development C APSA Journal of Contemporary European Studies C APSA Journal of Contemporary Politics C APSA Journal of Critical Realism C APSA Journal of Defence Studies C APSA Journal of Democracy C APSA Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs C APSA Journal of Modern African Studies C APSA Latin American Perspectives C APSA Latin American Politics and Society C APSA Legislative Studies C APSA Local Government Studies C APSA
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Middle East Journal C APSA Middle East Policy C APSA Middle Eastern Studies C APSA Modern and Contemporary France C APSA Modern China C APSA New England Journal of Political Science C APSA New Political Science: a journal of politics & culture C APSA Nonproliferation Review C APSA Peace and Democracy in South Asia C APSA Peacekeeping & International Relations C APSA Politics C APSA Politics & Policy C APSA South Asia C APSA South East Asia Research C APSA
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ASAA Journal Ranking List
Journal Name Tier Ranking Body Asia Pacific Business Review A* ASAA Asia Pacific journal of anthropology A* ASAA Asian Business & Management A* ASAA Asian Economic Journal A* ASAA Asian Security A* ASAA Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies A* ASAA Bulletin Of The School Of Oriental And African Studies. A* ASAA China Journal, The A* ASAA China Quarterly A* ASAA Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies A* ASAA Indonesia (Cornell) A* ASAA International Relations of Asia Pacific A* ASAA Islamic Law & Society A* ASAA Journal Asiatique A* ASAA Journal of Asian Studies A* ASAA Journal of Japanese Studies A* ASAA Journal of Korean Studies A* ASAA Journal Of The International Association Of Buddhist Studies A* ASAA Journal of Vietnamese Studies (UC Berkeley) A* ASAA Late Imperial China A* ASAA Modern Asian Studies A* ASAA Modern China: An International Quarterly of History and Social A* ASAA Sciences Monumenta Nipponica A* ASAA Monumenta Serica (Journal of Oriental Studies) A* ASAA Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China A* ASAA Oceanic Linguistics A* ASAA Pacific Affairs A* ASAA Pacific Review A* ASAA Philosophy East and West A* ASAA Positions: east asia cultures critique A* ASAA
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South Asia A* ASAA Asia Major A ASAA Asian Anthropology A ASAA Asian Ethnicity A ASAA Asian Folklore Studies A ASAA Asian Studies Review A ASAA Asian Survey A ASAA Asian Theatre Journal : ATJ A ASAA Asian Thought and Society: An International Review A ASAA Asian-Pacific Economic Literature A ASAA Asia Pacific Viewpoint A ASAA Central Asian Survey A ASAA China Information: A Journal on Contemporary China Studies A ASAA China Review International A ASAA Contemporary Chinese Thought A ASAA Contemporary Pacific A ASAA Contemporary South Asia A ASAA Contemporary Southeast Asia A ASAA Contributions to Indian Sociology A ASAA Critical Asian Studies A ASAA Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies A ASAA Developing economies A ASAA Early China A ASAA East and West A ASAA East Asian History A ASAA European Journal of East Asian Studies A ASAA History of Chinese Philosophy A ASAA Indian Economic and Social History Review A ASAA Indian Economic Journal A ASAA Indian Economic Review A ASAA Indian Historical Review A ASAA Indonesia and the Malay World A ASAA Inner Asia A ASAA InterAsia Cultural Studies A ASAA International journal of Asian studies. A ASAA International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies A ASAA
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Japan and the World Economy : International Journal of Theory A ASAA and Policy Japan Forum A ASAA Japanese Economic Review A ASAA Japanese Journal of Religious Studies A ASAA Japanese Language and Literature A ASAA Japanese Studies A ASAA Journal of Asian Economics A ASAA Journal of Asian History A ASAA Journal of Chinese Linguistics A ASAA Journal of Chinese Social and Economic History A ASAA Journal of Contemporary Asia A ASAA Journal of East Asian Linguistics A ASAA Journal of East Asian Studies A ASAA Journal of Global Buddhism A ASAA Journal of Historical Studies (Rekishigaku Kenkyu) A ASAA Journal of Islamic Studies A ASAA Journal of Palestine Studies A ASAA Journal of South Asian Studies A ASAA Journal of Southeast Asian Studies A ASAA Journal of the American Oriental Society A ASAA Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy A ASAA Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient A ASAA Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society A ASAA Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society A ASAA Middle East Journal A ASAA Pacific Economic Bulletin A ASAA Pacific Studies A ASAA Seoul Journal of Korean Studies A ASAA Shiso (Ideas) A ASAA Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography A ASAA Social Science Japan Journal A ASAA Social Sciences in China A ASAA South East Asia Research A ASAA Southeast Asian Affairs A ASAA Study of Chinese History A ASAA
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Tongbang Hakchi A ASAA Twentieth-Century China A ASAA Wen Shi (Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy A ASAA al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean B ASAA Arab Studies Journal B ASAA Arab Studies Quarterly B ASAA Arabic Sciences and Philosophy B ASAA Arts asiatiques B ASAA Arts of Asia B ASAA Asean Economic Bulletin B ASAA Asia Europe Journal B ASAA Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law B ASAA Asia Pacific Journal of Management B ASAA Asia Pacific Journal of Public Admin B ASAA Asialaw Japan review B ASAA Asian Affairs: An American Review B ASAA Asian Art and Culture B ASAA Asian Development Review B ASAA Asian Economic Papers B ASAA Asian Economic Policy Review B ASAA Asian Journal of Political Science B ASAA Asian Philosophy B ASAA Asia Pacific Migration Journal B ASAA Bilingual Research B ASAA British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies B ASAA Central Asiatic Journal B ASAA China Economic Review B ASAA China Mainland Review B ASAA Chinese Philosophy B ASAA Chinese Science B ASAA Chinese Sociology and Anthropology B ASAA Chinese Studies B ASAA Comparative Connections: an E-Journal of East Asian Bilateral Relations B ASAA Contemporary Research in Modern Chinese B ASAA
Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian B ASAA
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Studies Early Modern Japan B ASAA East Asia: An International Quarterly B ASAA East- West Film Journal B ASAA Gender, Technology and development B ASAA Gengo Kenkyuu B ASAA Global Change, Peace and Security B ASAA Indian Journal of Asian Affairs B ASAA Indian Journal of Gender Studies B ASAA Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context B ASAA Interventions: International journal of postcolonial studies B ASAA Iranian Studies B ASAA Israel Studies B ASAA Japan focus B ASAA Japan Review (Nichibunken) B ASAA Japan Review of International Affairs B ASAA Japan Studies Review B ASAA Japanese journal of political science B ASAA
Journal of Asia Pacific Business B ASAA Journal of Asian and African Studies B ASAA Journal of Asian and African Studies (Japan) B ASAA Journal of Asian Business B ASAA Journal of Asian Culture B ASAA Journal of Asian Pacific Communication B ASAA Journal of Burma Studies B ASAA Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies B ASAA Journal of Chinese Philosophy B ASAA Journal of Chinese Religions B ASAA Journal of Chinese Studies B ASAA Journal of Contemporary China B ASAA Journal of East Asian Affairs B ASAA Journal of Indian Philosophy B ASAA
Journal of Mongolian Studies B ASAA Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs/Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs B ASAA
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Journal of Oriental studies = Dongfang-wenhua B ASAA Journal of Pacific Studies B ASAA Journal of South Asian Development B ASAA Journal of the Burma Research Society (JBRS) B ASAA
Journal of the Institute for Asian Studies B ASAA Journal of the Korean Archaeological Society (Hanguk Kogo-Hakbo) B ASAA Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch B ASAA Journal of the Siam Society B ASAA Journal of Vedic Studies B ASAA
Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies B ASAA Korea Journal B ASAA Malaysia in History B ASAA Man in India B ASAA Middle East Policy B ASAA Middle-East Report (Middle East Research and Information Project) B ASAA Middle Eastern Studies B ASAA
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture B ASAA Mongolian studies : journal of the Mongolian Society (American) B ASAA NeiMenggu-shehui-kexue = Inner Mongolia social sciences B ASAA New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies B ASAA Nihon shiso shi gaku B ASAA Nihongo Kyoiku B ASAA Nihon-shi kenkyu [Japanese History Research] B ASAA Nihon kenkyu [Japan Research] B ASAA Nihon-gaku kenkyu [Japanese Studies Research] B ASAA Nihongo Kagaku (Japanese Language Science) B ASAA Noksaek P'yongnon B ASAA Nova Religio B ASAA Oriental Art B ASAA Orientalia Venetiana B ASAA Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies B ASAA Rekishi Hyoron (Historical Review) B ASAA Rekishigaku Kenkyu B ASAA
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Renditions B ASAA Resource, Environment and Development B ASAA Review of Asian and Pacific Studies B ASAA Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs B ASAA Review of Japanese Culture and Society B ASAA Singapore Economic Review B ASAA Sojourn : Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia B ASAA South Asia Research B ASAA Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science B ASAA Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto) B ASAA Tai Culture: International Review on Tai Cultural Studies B ASAA Taiwan Journal of Democracy B ASAA The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand B ASAA Tibet Journal, The B ASAA Turkish Studies Association Journal B ASAA U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal B ASAA Vietnam's Socio-Economic Development B ASAA American Asian Review C ASAA American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences C ASAA Asia Affairs: An American Review C ASAA Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education C ASAA Asia-Pacific journal on human rights and the law C ASAA Asia Pacific Law Review C ASAA Asian Journal of Environmental Management C ASAA Asian Journal of Philosophy C ASAA Asian Journal of Public Administration C ASAA Asian Journal Of Social Science C ASAA Asian Journal of Women's Studies C ASAA Asian Migrant C ASAA Asian Perspective C ASAA Bengal Past and Present C ASAA
Borneo Research Bulletin C ASAA Bridges: Berkeley Research Journal on South and Southeast Asia (BRJSS) C ASAA Buddhist - Christian Studies C ASAA
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Buddhist Studies Review C ASAA Canada Asia review C ASAA Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies C ASAA Central Asia Monitor C ASAA China Perspectives C ASAA China Report: a journal of East Asian Studies C ASAA China Review (HK) C ASAA
China Studies C ASAA
China: An International Journal C ASAA
Chinbo P'yongnon C ASAA
Chinese & Society C ASAA
Chinese Culture C ASAA
Chinese Culture Forum C ASAA Contemporary Buddhism C ASAA Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography C ASAA Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies C ASAA Da Lu Za Zhi (The Continent Magazine) C ASAA
Dan Toc Hoc C ASAA
Development and Society C ASAA Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies C ASAA Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies C ASAA Europe-Asia Studies C ASAA Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies C ASAA Far Eastern Economic Review C ASAA Global Asia : a journal of the East Asia Foundation C ASAA Graduate journal of Asia-Pacific studies C ASAA Harvard Asia Pacific Review C ASAA India Quarterly C ASAA Indian Journal of Philosophic Studies C ASAA Indian Journal of Political Science C ASAA Indonesian quarterly C ASAA Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion C ASAA International Journal of Central Asian Studies C ASAA
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Journal of Asian Cultural Studies C ASAA Journal of Chinese Theater and Opera Studies C ASAA Journal of Dharma C ASAA Journal of East Asian archaeology C ASAA Journal of Hebei University C ASAA Journal of Indian History C ASAA Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion C ASAA
Journal of Institutional Research (South East Asia) C ASAA
Journal of Islam in Asia C ASAA Korea Observer C ASAA
Pacific Tourism Review C ASAA
Pakistan Development Review C ASAA
Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences C ASAA Peace and Democracy in South Asia C ASAA Singapore Journal of Education C ASAA South Asia Economic Journal C ASAA South Asian Popular Culture C ASAA South East Asian Review C ASAA South Indian Folklorist C ASAA Vietnam Economic Review C ASAA Vietnamese Studies (Hanoi) C ASAA Vietnamese Studies Review C ASAA
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APSA Publisher Rankings
Category Table - book publishers
A* Category
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Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press/Clarendon Chicago University Press (UK/US) Columbia University Press Princeton University Press Harvard University Press Stanford University Press MIT Press University of California Press Yale University Press Sub-total 10 5.84% A Category Alfred A Knopf Palgrave MacMillan (UK & Australia, St Allen & Unwin Martins' Press in US) Cornell University Press Penguin Duke University Press Politico's Edward Elgar Polity Press Elsevier Science Ltd Routledge (Taylor and Francis) John Hopkins University Press Sage Publications Kluwer/Springer Univ of Pennsylvania Press Manchester University Press University of Michigan Press Melbourne University Press University of Minnesota Press New York University Press University of New South Wales Press* Oxford University Press (Australia) University of Toronto Press Wiley-Blackwell Sub-total 24 14.03% A*/A 19.87% B Category Addison Wesley Houghton Mifflin Company Ashgate Indiana University Press Beacon Press Jossey-Bass Black Inc Press Longman Butterworth Heinemann Lynne Rienner Continuum/Cassell M E Sharpe Duckworth Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Edinburgh University Press Open University Press (McGraw-Hill) Federation Press Pearson Education Australia Hale & Iremonger Pennsylvania State University Press Harper Collins Pluto Press Hodder Praeger Publishers
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Prentice Hall United Nations University Press Queen's McGill Press University of Hawaii Press Rowman and Littlefield University of Ottawa Press Russell Sage Foundation University of Queensland Press Rutgers University Press University of Queensland Press Scribe Publications VERSO Singapore University Press Wakefield Press State University of New York Press Wiley Publishing Transaction Publishers WW Norton and Company Sub-total 42 24.56% A*+A+B 44.43% C Category Academic Affairs SIL Philippines Charles Darwin University Press Akademischer Verlag City University of Hong Kong Press Allyn and Bacon Crawford House Publishing Alpmann-Schmidt Verlag Deakin University Press Altamira Press DJOF Publishers Anthem Press Farmer Press ANU E Press Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ASEAN Academic Press Ltd Gerald Duckworth and Co. Associated University Presses Global Oriental Association for Asian Studies Greenwood Press Ateneo de Manila University Press IB Taurus Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Intersentia Australian Humanities Press Iowa State University Press Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd IP Communications Autonomedia Irish Academic Press Beijing University Press ISEAS Publications Berg Publishers IWGIA Bookman Press JAI Press Broadview press Jessica Kingsley Bruno Mondadori Kalinga Publications C Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd Klartex Verlag Cafoscarina Language Australia Canadian Scholars' Press Inc Leicester University Press Carus Publishing Company Lianjing Publishers Ltd
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LIT Verlag Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez Liverpool University Press Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press Longueville Media University of Arizona Press Marcel Dekker Inc University of British Columbia Press Monash University Press and ePress University of Frieberg Press Network Books University of Georgia Press Olzog University of Illinois Press Pandanus Books University of Luton Press Peter Lang University of Nebraska Press Physica-Verlag University of North Carolina Press Prestige Books University of Virginia Press Prometheus Books University of Western Australia Press Select Publications University of Wollongong Press Shipra Publications University Press of Colorado South Asian Publishers University Press of Florida Southern Highlands Publishers University Press of Mississippi Spinifex University Press of New England Sussex Academic Press UWA Press Syracuse University Press VS Verlag The University Press of Kentucky Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG UBC Press Wollongong University Press UNESCO Publishing Women's Press Universal Academy Press Yayasan Obor Indonesia
Sub-total 95 55.55% TOTAL A*+A+B+C 171 100.00%
*As noted in the AIS PBPR document, there is a geographical bias in publishing houses, where North American academics tend to favour university presses and UK academics favour commercial presses.
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