The International Journal of Asian and African Studies appears in a wide range of abstracting and indexing databases, and is covered by numerous other services, as given in the full list below.

• EBSCO
• Crossref
• ResearchGate
• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
• Public Knowledge Project (PKP Index)
• CNKI Scholar
• Google Scholar
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• OpenAIRE
• LOCKSS
• SciSpace - USA
• Scilit
• SSRN - Elsevier
• Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF)
• CLOCKSS 
• J-Gate
• Dimensions
• ISSN