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Chinese Science Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 0023-074XVerify ISSN ↗2095-9419Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 69 / 223 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 1989, 1980–1984, 1963–1964), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Chinese Science Bulletin is Q2 in Multidisciplinary (rank 69 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Science Bulletin 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.272, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 57.
Chinese Science Bulletin is published by Science Press. Its print ISSN is 0023-074X and its online ISSN is 2095-9419.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Science Bulletin has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Chinese Science Bulletin published 703 papers in 2025. 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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