Pacific Affairs is privileged to be one of the journals featured in JSTOR’s core collections that is offered to university libraries around the world. With over 6000 institutions signed up to JSTOR’s collection in over 150 different countries it is not surprising that authors of articles featured in Pacific Affairs received wide and comprehensive attention by the academic community.
In 2023 a total of 293,002 articles published in Pacific Affairs were downloaded from JSTOR, below are the top ten.
Articles can be accessed via JSTOR (or purchased if your institution does not have a license).
Articles written from 2020 to the present are not available through JSTOR and therefore are not included in this list. This data was downloaded from JSTOR and represents the most popular articles downloaded in 2022.
1. Anime in the US: The Entrepreneurial Dimensions of Globalized Culture
by Nissim Otmazgin
Volume 87, No. 1
March 2014
Number of downloads: 4245
2. Martial Law in the Philippines: The Methods of Regime Survival
by David Wurfel
Volume 50, No. 1
Spring 1977
Number of downloads: 3701
3. Constitution-Making in Bangladesh
by Abul Fazl Huq
Volume 46, No. 1
Spring 1977
Number of downloads: 2812
4. A Step Toward Understanding Popular Violence in China’s Cultural Revolution
by Lu Xiuyuan
Volume 67, No. 4
Winter 1994
Number of downloads: 1739
5. Civil Liberties and the Mass Media under Martial Law in the Philippines
by David A. Rosenberg
Volume 47, No. 4
Winter 1974-75
Number of downloads: 1663
6. India’s Independence and the War
by Michael Greenberg
Volume 15, No. 2
Summer 1942
Number of downloads: 1603
7. ASEAN and the Management of Regional Security
by Shaun Narine
Volume 71, No. 2
Summer 1998
Number of downloads: 1516
8. Japan’s National/Asian Women’s Fund for “Comfort Women”
by C. Sarah Soh
Volume 76, No. 2
Summer 2003
Number of downloads: 1500
9. The Discourse of Unequal Treaties in Modern China
by Dong Wang
Volume 76, No. 3
Fall 2003
Number of downloads: 1372
10. The Power of the Nation-state amid Neoliberal Reform: Shifting Cultural Politics in the New Korean Wave
by Dal Yong Jin
Volume 87, No. 1
March 2014
Number of downloads: 1361