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Chinese Historical Review is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Maney Publishing.
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ISSN 1547-402XVerify ISSN ↗2048-7827Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1695 / 1936 | 12th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1289 / 1434 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Chinese Historical Review is Q4 in History (rank 1695 of 1936) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1289 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Historical Review 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 12th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Chinese Historical Review is published by Maney Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1547-402X and its online ISSN is 2048-7827.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Historical Review has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #667 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Chinese Historical Review published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 28. 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 64 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.2%), China (19.3%) and Canada (7%). 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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