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Japan Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0955-5803Verify ISSN ↗1469-932XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 523 / 1936 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 556 / 1434 | 61st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1065 / 1530 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1989–2003), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Japan Forum is Q2 in History (rank 523 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 556 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1065 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Japan Forum 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Japan Forum is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0955-5803 and its online ISSN is 1469-932X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Japan Forum has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #399 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Japan Forum published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 51. 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 20 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (35%), United States (20%) and United Kingdom (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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