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| Discipline | Development studies |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Saturnino Borras, Jr. |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1973–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 4.754 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Peasant Stud. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0306-6150 (print) 1743-9361 (web) |
| LCCN | 75642680 |
| OCLC no. | 884525567 |
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The Journal of Peasant Studies, subtitledCritical Perspectives on Rural Politics and Development, is a bimonthlypeer-reviewedacademic journal covering research into the social structures, institutions, actors, and processes of change in therural areas of thedeveloping world. It is published byRoutledge and theeditor-in-chief is Saturnino "Jun" Borras Jr. (International Institute of Social Studies).
The journal is abstracted and indexed inCurrent Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences,[1]International Bibliography of the Social Sciences,International Political Science Abstracts,Scopus,[2] theSocial Sciences Citation Index,[1] andSociological Abstracts. According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013impact factor of 5.477, ranking it first out of 81 journals in the category "Anthropology"[3] and first out of 55 journals in the category "Planning and Development".[4]
The journal was an outgrowth of a 1972University of London seminar onpeasantries. It was established in 1973 withTerence J. Byres (1973–2000), Charles Curwen (1973–1984), andTeodor Shanin (1973–1975) as founding editors-in-chief.[5][6][7] Other past editors of the journal have beenHenry Bernstein (1985–2000) andTom Brass (1990–1998, 2000–2008). The current editor is Saturnino Borras, Jr.[8][6]