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China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd.
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ISSN 2377-7400Verify ISSN ↗2377-7419Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1021 / 1530 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 512 / 745 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1021 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 512 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies is published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2377-7400 and its online ISSN is 2377-7419.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #505 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 34. 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 22 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from China (40.9%), Pakistan (11.4%) and India (9.1%).
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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