The ''Journal of World-Systems Research'' (''JWSR'') is a biannual, open access, peer-reviewed

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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's current

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Andrej Grubačić Andrej Grubačić is a Yugoslav world historian, world-systems theorist, and activist based in the United States. Early life and education Grubačić was born in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is the grandson of Ratomir Du ...

. The journal was one of the first online,

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ed academic journals, published originally as an online archive of scholarly papers accessed using the Gopher (protocol). The journal describes its purpose as being:

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* Sociology journals Publications established in 1995 English-language journals Biannual journals Globalization-related journals World systems theory {{globalization-stub Open access journals American Sociological Association academic journals