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Hard evidence is available that Middle East Policy is the most influential journal on the Middle East region in the field of foreign policy. The authoritative, standard-setting Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), in its Social Sciences edition, surveys over 8,000 publications and evaluates them according to a formula based on three criteria: the number of citations of their articles in other publications, impact factor and immediacy.
In the category "international relations," Middle East Policy is the only journal dealing with any aspect of the Middle East that is "ranked" by ISI in the top 50 (we are number 31). In fact, very few journals in the list deal with a specific geographical region. For example, the general-interest quarterly Foreign Affairs is ranked sixth; Foreign Policy is sixteenth. Other titles include The American Journal of International Law (number 1), The Common Market Law Review (number 29), and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (number 39). The ISI ranking is an indicator of the quality of the work of our contributors. It is also used by librarians as a guide to their periodical acquisitions.
This ISI ranking is especially impressive as Middle East Policy is only 17 years old; many of the ranked journals are three times its age. The journal was actually considered noteworthy by ISI as far back as 1986, four years after its founding.
The only journal on the Middle East in the top 50.
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Since its inception in mid-1982, the journal has been recognized as a valuable addition to the then-arid policy discussion. Political factors confined original and provocative thinking on the Middle East to the margins of respectable debate. Middle East Policy provided a forum for a wider range of views on U.S. interests in the region and the value of the policies that were supposed to promote them.
Potential articles from serious thinkers poured in and have kept on coming. Because the information was accurate, the arguments were logical, the perspective was fresh, and the writing was incisive, these pieces resonated with and influenced the work of others, who cited them in other publications - "see so and so in Middle East Policy." In this way, the journal has played a major role in propagating ideas whose time has come.
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