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Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2520-8985Verify ISSN ↗2520-8993Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 276 / 361 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology is Q4 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 276 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 23rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.203, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2520-8985 and its online ISSN is 2520-8993.
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 Journal of Academic Radiology has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #243 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 46. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (64.9%), United States (5.2%) and Türkiye (3.6%). 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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