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Chinese Sociological Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by M.E. Sharpe Inc..
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ISSN 2162-0555Verify ISSN ↗2162-0563Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 17 / 536 | 96th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 13 / 233 | 94th | Q1 |
| Demography | 11 / 140 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 167 / 1530 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Chinese Sociological Review is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 17 of 536), Q1 in Gender Studies (rank 13 of 233) and Q1 in Demography (rank 11 of 140), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Chinese Sociological Review 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.874, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Chinese Sociological Review is published by M.E. Sharpe Inc. Its print ISSN is 2162-0555 and its online ISSN is 2162-0563.
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 Sociological Review has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 2.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Chinese Sociological Review published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 33. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (46%), Hong Kong SAR China (19.3%) and United States (18.5%).
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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