About the Review
Central Asian Review publishes research, analysis and essays on the politics, economies and societies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, together with work on the wider region where it bears on these five countries. The review is independent and published by Freshman Academy. Every submission is read in full by an editor before anything appears. Abstracts are public so the work can be found; the papers themselves are free to registered readers. The aim is plain: a durable, citable home for careful work on a region that deserves more of it.
How a paper reaches a reader
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You send a paper
A finished paper as a single PDF of up to 10 MB, with an abstract that stands alone. An account is free and a Google sign-in creates one.
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An editor reads it
Every submission is read in full before anything appears on the site. You hear back by email either way; a returned paper comes with a note saying what to revise, and a revised version is welcome.
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It publishes, then binds
Accepted papers go live as they clear review — the abstract public so the work can be found, the PDF free to registered readers — and are gathered into that quarter's issue.
For contributors
Send a finished paper as a single PDF of up to 10 MB, with an abstract that stands alone: the abstract is the only part of the paper search engines can read, so it should state the question, the method and the finding by itself. An editor reads every submission in full, and you will hear back by email either way. If a paper is returned, the note explains what to revise, and a revised version is welcome. Publication is free at every stage.
Submit a paperCoverage
- KazakhstanҚазақстан
- KyrgyzstanКыргызстан
- TajikistanТоҷикистон
- TurkmenistanTürkmenistan
- UzbekistanOʻzbekiston
Independent, published quarterly by Freshman Academy
Every submission read in full by an editor
Free to read · free to submit