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Early China is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0362-5028Verify ISSN ↗2325-2324Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 226 / 1186 | 80th | Q1 |
| History | 645 / 1936 | 66th | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 277 / 760 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 379 / 891 | 57th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 217 / 462 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Archeology | 205 / 388 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Early China is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 226 of 1186), Q2 in History (rank 645 of 1936) and Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 277 of 760), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Early China is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.108, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Early China is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0362-5028 and its online ISSN is 2325-2324.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Early China has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #561 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Early China published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 25. 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 57 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.3%), China (17.1%) and Hong Kong SAR China (11%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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