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Contemporary Japan is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1869-2729Verify ISSN ↗1869-2737Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 151 / 1936 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 255 / 1434 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 131 / 286 | 54th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 723 / 1530 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Contemporary Japan is Q1 in History (rank 151 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 255 of 1434) and Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 131 of 286), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Contemporary Japan 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 1.6, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.285, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
Contemporary Japan is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1869-2729 and its online ISSN is 1869-2737.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary Japan has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Contemporary Japan published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 37. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (44.9%), Germany (12.9%) and United States (12.5%).
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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