Journal of World-Systems Research

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| title = Journal of World-Systems Research

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| editor = Andrej Grubačić

| discipline = Sociology

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| abbreviation = J. World-Syst. Res.

| publisher = University Library System, University of Pittsburgh for the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association

| country = United States

| frequency = Biannual

| history = 1995-present

| openaccess = Yes

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| website = http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr

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| OCLC = 782887960

| LCCN = sn94005097

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| ISSN = 1076-156X

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://irows.ucr.edu/|title=Welcome to IROWS|website=irows.ucr.edu|access-date=2016-10-31}} 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.{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Jackie|last2=Bair|first2=Jennifer|last3=Byrd|first3=Scott|date=2015-08-31|title=Editors' Introduction|url=http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/28|journal=Journal of World-Systems Research|language=en|volume=21|issue=2|pages=238–240|doi=10.5195/jwsr.2015.28|issn=1076-156X|doi-access=free}} The journal's current editor-in-chief is Andrej Grubačić.

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).{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

The journal describes its purpose as being: {{cquote|to produce a high quality publication of world-systems research articles; to publish quantitative and comparative research on world-systems; to publish works of theory construction and codification of causal propositions; to publish data sets in connection with articles; to publish reviews of books relevant to world-systems studies; and to encourage authors to use the hypermedia advantages of electronic publication to present their research results.[http://www.jwsr.org/editorial-policy "Editorial Policy,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513044532/http://www.jwsr.org/editorial-policy |date=2013-05-13 }} JWSR website. Accessed: April 4, 2013.}}