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Chinese Journal of Space Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), DOAJ. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 0254-6124Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 132 / 169 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Chinese Journal of Space Science is Q4 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 132 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Space Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Chinese Journal of Space Science is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 0254-6124.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Chinese Journal of Space Science has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 141 Scopus journals in Aerospace Engineering.
Chinese Journal of Space Science published 144 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 152. 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.
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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