Journal asiatique

Journal asiatique

Discipline	Asian studies
Language	English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Edited by	Jean-Marie Durand
Publication details
History	1822–present
Publisher	Peeters Publishers on behalf of the Société Asiatique
Frequency	Biannual
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Asiat.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0021-762X (print) 1783-1504 (web)
LCCN	sc82008193
OCLC no.	714198965
Links
Journal homepage Online access

The Journal asiatique (full earlier title Journal Asiatique ou Recueil de Mémoires, d'Extraits et de Notices relatifs à l'Histoire, à la Philosophie, aux Langues et à la Littérature des Peuples Orientaux) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1822 by the Société Asiatique covering Asian studies. It publishes articles in French and several other European languages. Cited texts are presented in their original languages. Each issue also includes news of the Société Asiatique and its members, obituaries of notable Orientalists, critical reviews, and books received. The journal is published by Peeters Publishers on behalf of the Société Asiatique and the editor-in-chief is Jean-Marie Durand.

Cover of first issue (1822)

It is one of the oldest continuous French publications.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: Bibliographie linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography, ATLA Religion Database, Index to the Study of Religions Online, Index Islamicus, and Scopus.

Previous editors

The following people have been editor-in-chief:

• Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin (1822–1832)
• Grangeret de Lagrange (1832–1858)
• Julius von Mohl (1858–1876)
• Barbier de Meynard (1876–1892)
• Rubens Duval (1892–1908)
• Louis Finot (1908–1920)
• Gabriel Ferrand (1920–1935)
• René Grousset (1935–1946)
• Jean Sauvaget (1946–1950)
• Marcelle Lalou (1950–1967)
• James Germain Février (1967–1972)
• Daniel Gimaret (1972–1992)
• Denis Matringe (1993–2001)
• Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (2001–2008)
• Gérard Colas (2008–2011)

External links

• Archive page consecrated to Journal asiatique on site of Peeters (Belgium)
• Journal asiatique issues from 1822 to 1940 in Gallica (in French)
• Journal asiatique on French Wikisource (1822–1923)