Columbia Journal of Asia

What Columbia Journal of Asia does

Columbia Journal of Asia is a private, open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal focused on Asian studies, established in 2022 and operated under Columbia University Libraries. It serves faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars who require a venue for disseminating peer-reviewed research on Asian studies, Asian law, and related disciplines. The journal operates within a portfolio of more than 30 open-access scholarly journals supported by Columbia Libraries, with content made freely available to global readers at no cost to authors or readers.

The journal runs on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) publishing platform hosted by Columbia University Libraries at journals.library.columbia.edu, with additional distribution possible through Columbia University's Academic Commons institutional repository. Editorial workflows use a double-anonymous peer review process, and the platform supports ORCID OAuth authentication for user identity verification. The journal is categorized as contributing scholarly output within Columbia Libraries' broader open-access publishing infrastructure, alongside sibling titles spanning law, environmental studies, gender studies, mathematics, social work, and bioethics.

The business model is structurally non-commercial: the journal charges no submission or publication fees to authors and no access fees to readers, and Columbia Libraries covers all hosting and operational costs as part of its institutional mission to support open-access scholarly communication. There is no disclosed revenue, no funding rounds, no external investors, and no independent corporate structure. Headcount is 1-10, consistent with editorial roles rather than commercial operations, and the office is co-located with Columbia Libraries at 535 West 114th St., New York.

Name

Columbia Journal of Asia

Legal name

Columbia University Libraries

Website

https://journals.library.columbia.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Columbia Journal of Asia is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 2022 and published by Columbia University Libraries. It serves scholars and researchers producing work on Asian studies through free, double-anonymous peer-reviewed publishing on the Columbia Libraries OJS platform.

Ownership category

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Product category

Academic Journal Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ)

Keywords

• Academic journal publishing
• Open access scholarship
• Peer reviewed research
• Asian studies journal
• Scholarly communication

Headquarters

HQ city

New York, NY

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Open Access Publishing Services: Columbia Libraries provides technical publishing support and covers hosting and related costs for scholarly journals as part of its institutional mission to support open-access research dissemination.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Columbia Journal of Asia is an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly work on Asian topics. It operates under the Columbia Library Journals platform provided by Columbia University Libraries, which supplies technical publishing infrastructure, hosting, and peer-review support for over 30 scholarly journals. The journal is freely accessible to readers worldwide and charges no fees to authors.

Product overview

Columbia Journal of Asia is an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal published as part of the Columbia Library Journals platform, operated by Columbia University Libraries. This platform provides comprehensive technical publishing support and hosting services for over 30 scholarly journals. Columbia Journal of Asia is one of the journals within this portfolio, focusing on Asian studies research. The platform handles the infrastructure while individual journals maintain their editorial content and focus areas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Integration1 record

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Columbia University LibrariescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerColumbia University Libraries provides technical publishing support, hosting services, and covers all operational costs for the journal as part of its institutional mission to support open-access scholarly communication.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

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Direct peers

• Asian Ethnology: An English-language peer-reviewed journal on Asian cultures and societies, providing another comparable multidisciplinary area-studies publication venue for scholars in the same target audience.
• positions: asia critique: An interdisciplinary journal on Asia publishing scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Its scope, peer-review model, and area-studies audience directly overlap with Columbia Journal of Asia.
• Columbia Journal of Asian Law: A sister journal within Columbia Library Journals focused specifically on Asian law. It shares the same OJS platform, open-access model, and Columbia Libraries hosting, making it the closest operational and infrastructural peer.
• Critical Asian Studies: A peer-reviewed journal publishing research on Asia across the social sciences, humanities, and policy. Its multidisciplinary scope and area-studies focus align closely with Columbia Journal of Asia.
• Asian Studies Review: A peer-reviewed journal covering all subdisciplines of Asian studies, published by Taylor & Francis for the Asian Studies Association of Australia. Comparable in scope and disciplinary breadth to Columbia Journal of Asia.

Broad incumbents

• Journal of Asian Studies: The flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, published by Cambridge University Press. It is the dominant peer-reviewed venue for Asian studies in the English-speaking world and the primary competitor for scholarly submissions in this field.
• Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies: A prestigious peer-reviewed journal on Asian studies housed at Harvard University. Comparable in its area-studies scope and elite university affiliation, and a high-prestige competitor for Asia-focused scholarship.
• Asian Survey: A long-running peer-reviewed journal at the University of California covering contemporary Asia across politics, economics, and society. It is a broad incumbent that competes for the same submission pool of Asian-focused scholarship.

Regional players

• The Journal of the Siam Society: A long-running peer-reviewed scholarly journal covering Asian studies with a regional focus. Comparable as an open-style academic venue for area-studies research, though with a more geographically concentrated focus.

Emerging players

• Princeton Journal of Asian Studies: An undergraduate and graduate-run journal at Princeton University focused on Asian studies. Comparable as a small, Ivy League-affiliated open-style venue for Asia-focused scholarship.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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