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Journal of Chinese Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
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ISSN 0091-3723Verify ISSN ↗2411-3484Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 411 / 692 | 40th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 840 / 1221 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 411 of 692) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 840 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.143, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics is published by Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Its print ISSN is 0091-3723 and its online ISSN is 2411-3484.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #368 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Chinese Linguistics published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 58. 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 19 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (50%), Taiwan (21.1%) and Hong Kong SAR China (13.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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