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China Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. Published by French Centre for Research on Contemporary China.
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ISSN 1996-4617Verify ISSN ↗2070-3449Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 270 / 1434 | 81st | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 355 / 745 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 522 / 876 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
China Perspectives is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 270 of 1434), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 355 of 745) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 522 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
China Perspectives is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.441, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
China Perspectives is published by French Centre for Research on Contemporary China. Its print ISSN is 1996-4617 and its online ISSN is 2070-3449.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
China Perspectives has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #382 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
China Perspectives published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 69. 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 66 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from China (24.5%), Hong Kong SAR China (19.4%) and France (15.2%).
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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