Journal of Refugee Studies


The Journal of Refugee Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal publishing research on forced migration. It was established in 1988 by the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, with its first issue published that May. It is published by Oxford University Press in association with the Refugee Studies Centre. The editor-in-chief is Khalid Koser. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.143, ranking it 7th out of 15 journals in the category "Ethnic Studies" and 15th out of 26 in the category "Demography".