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China Economic Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis.
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ISSN 1753-8963Verify ISSN ↗1753-8971Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 87 / 1434 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 323 / 1530 | 78th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 71 / 289 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
China Economic Journal is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 87 of 1434), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 323 of 1530) and Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 71 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
China Economic Journal 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.603, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
China Economic Journal is published by Taylor & Francis. Its print ISSN is 1753-8963 and its online ISSN is 1753-8971.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
China Economic Journal has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
China Economic Journal published 35 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (75.5%), United States (8%) and United Kingdom (2%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4.8 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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