| Journal of Agrarian Change | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Agrarian political economy |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Deborah Johnston, Cristóbal Kay, Jens Lerche, Carlos Oya |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publication history | 2001-present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Impact factor (2009) |
2.000 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1471-0358 (print) 1471-0366 (web) |
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The Journal of Agrarian Change is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2001 covering agrarian political economy. The journal covers historical and contemporary studies of the social relations and dynamics of production, power relations in agrarian formations and ownership structures and their processes of change.[1]
The journal's founding editorial board included 31 of the 33 board members of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Bernstein and Byres, two of the founding editors, reviewed in the first article published by the journal, the history of the Journal of Peasant Studies justifying the approach of their new journal and expressing the desire that it should have more coverage of historical debates, feminist scholarship, agrarian technological change and culture and that regions such as Japan, North Africa, and West Asia should also be covered.[2]
The Journal of Agrarian Change is abstracted and indexed in the following abstracts: Academic Search Premier, AGRICOLA, CABDirect, CSA Biological Sciences Database, CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Ecology Abstracts, EMBiology, GEOBASE/Geographical & Geological Abstracts, ProQuest, Social Sciences Citation Index, SocINDEX, Sociological Abstracts, Soils and Fertilizer Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2009 impact factor of 2.000.[3]