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Chinese Journal of International Law is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1540-1650Verify ISSN ↗1746-9937Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,981 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 429 / 1162 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 328 / 745 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Chinese Journal of International Law is Q2 in Law (rank 429 of 1162) and Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 328 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of International Law 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.588, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,981 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 International Law is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1540-1650 and its online ISSN is 1746-9937.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Journal of International Law has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #500 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Chinese Journal of International Law published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (43.3%), United Kingdom (10.1%) and United States (6.6%).
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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