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Journal of Chinese Sociology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SpringerOpen.
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ISSN 2198-2635Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SpringerOpen
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 75 / 286 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Chinese Sociology is Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 75 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Chinese Sociology 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.683, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Chinese Sociology is published by SpringerOpen. Its ISSN is 2198-2635.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Chinese Sociology has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 3.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Journal of Chinese Sociology published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (71.7%), United States (5%) and United Kingdom (4%). 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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