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Journal of Contemporary European Studies

area studies journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ15752508 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Contemporary European Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers European studies. It was established in 1980 as the Journal of Area Studies: Series 1 and renamed Journal of Area Studies in 1992. In 1999 it was again renamed as the Journal of European Area Studies, before obtaining its current name in 2003. It is published by Routledge and the editor-in-chief is Martin Bull (University of Salford)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences

EBSCO databases

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

Modern Language Association Database

ProQuest databases

Scopus

Social Sciences Citation Index

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 0.909.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Journal of Contemporary European Studies” as area studies journal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Journal, Contemporary and European.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1992, 1999, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Journal, Contemporary and European providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15752508. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980, 1992, 1999 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Contemporary European Studies” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.