The Journal of World-Systems Research (JWSR) is a biannual, open access, peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of world-systems analysis, established in 1995 by founding editor Christopher Chase-Dunn at the Institute for World-System Research at the University of California at Riverside. As of 2015, it is published by the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association and by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.
The Journal of World-Systems Research is an online, fully open access journal of the ASA Political Economy Section - by fully open, the journal does not charge either authors or readers for their articles - all costs of the journal are paid through ASA dues. The journal was one of the first online, peer-reviewed academic journals, published originally as an online archive of scholarly papers accessed using the Gopher (protocol).
JWSR develops and disseminates scholarly research from a variety of disciplines on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems, especially when proceeding from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. JWSR also publishes in multiple languages to provide a mechanism for meaningful discussion between scholars in both the global north and south.
The journal describes its purpose as being:The journal's current editor-in-chiefs are Devparna Roy and Daniel Pasciuti.
Editors 1994–2000, 2000-2007 Chris Chase-Dunn 2000-2007 Wally Goldfrank 2007-2011 Andrew K. Jorgenson 2007-2011 Edward Kick 2011- Jackie Smithhttps://web.archive.org/web/20140904072116/http://www.jwsr.org/boards-staff 2020-2025 Andrej Grubačić 2026 - Devparna Roy and Daniel Pasciuti
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