Draft:Journal of New Zealand Studies

The Journal of New Zealand Studies is a diamond open access academic journal in the field of New Zealand history. It is associated with the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, founded by will of J D Stout.

The journal is hosted on an Open Journal Systems platform by the Victoria University of Wellington.

History
Founded as the A4 magazine-type format Stout Centre Review by the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies in 1990, it changed to New Zealand Studies in 1995 and then Journal of New Zealand Studies in 2002.

In 2012 the Journal of New Zealand Studies was the first journal to be published on the then-new OJS platform by the university.

Editors

 * Peter Whiteford – to the present

Content
The journal has a track record of publishing articles linked to contemporary issues in New Zealand.

Highly cited articles

 * Marriott, Lisa and Dalice Sim. "Indicators of inequality for Maori and Pacific people." Journal of New Zealand Studies 20 (2015): 24–50.
 * Anderson, Atholl. "The making of the Maori middle ages." Journal of New Zealand Studies 23 (2016): 2–18.
 * Callister, Paul. "The construction of ethnicity and 'belonging' in New Zealand: Where we have come from and where we might be going." Journal of New Zealand Studies 10 (2011): 115–137.
 * O'Leary, John. "Too good to be true? – Race, class, massacre and the Bryce v Rusden libel case." Journal of New Zealand Studies 17 (2014): 2–20.
 * O'Malley, Vincent. "Manufacturing chiefly consent?: James Busby and the role of Rangatira in the pre-colonial era." Journal of New Zealand Studies 10 (2011): 33-43.
 * Thomson, John Mansfield. "Shame and Its Histories in the Twentieth Century: An interview with JD Stout Fellow David Grant." The Journal of New Zealand Studies 9, no. 2 (1999).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted or indexed in:
 * Scopus
 * Web of science
 * Informit
 * SCImago Journal Rank