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China Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Editorial Board of Journal on Communications.
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ISSN 1673-5447Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Board of Journal on Communications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 258 / 1030 | 75th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 147 / 568 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
China Communications is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 258 of 1030) and Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 147 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
China Communications is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.840, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
China Communications is published by Editorial Board of Journal on Communications. Its ISSN is 1673-5447.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
China Communications has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 2.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #291 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
China Communications published 312 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 315. 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 55 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (92.4%), Vietnam (1.8%) and Macao SAR China (1.8%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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