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Bamboo and Silk is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2468-9238Verify ISSN ↗2468-9246Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 582 / 1186 | 50th | Q2 |
| History | 1211 / 1936 | 37th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1046 / 1434 | 27th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 835 / 1137 | 26th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 936 / 1221 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 446 / 536 | 16th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1369 / 1530 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Bamboo and Silk is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 582 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1211 of 1936) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1046 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Bamboo and Silk is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Bamboo and Silk is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2468-9238 and its online ISSN is 2468-9246.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bamboo and Silk has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #454 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Bamboo and Silk published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 15. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 60 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (55%), United States (10.8%) and Hong Kong SAR China (7.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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