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Japanese Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1037-1397Verify ISSN ↗1469-9338Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 469 / 1936 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 514 / 1434 | 64th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1030 / 1530 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 523 / 745 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Japanese Studies is Q1 in History (rank 469 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 514 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1030 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Japanese Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.163, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Japanese Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1037-1397 and its online ISSN is 1469-9338.
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.
Japanese Studies has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #453 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Japanese Studies published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 45. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (28.4%), Japan (28.1%) and United States (18.7%).
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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